It's up to you. You should have much more knowledge in the agriculture field than most people.
I believe it makes no sense that you discard the knowledge you already have. You can apply data science methods with the knowledge that you have going to work or creating a new company that works in agriculture using new methods.
Do you want to spend your life doing surveillance and spying on people like everybody else? This is fashionable but people are starting to resist and develop antibodies for it as they understand it more. The TV or the phone that I bought spying or me is not acceptable.
Agriculture will grow enormously in the future with things like LED and other methods to give energy to plants, or plankton or whatever. Drones controlling pests or humidity or temperature. Using natural insects predators for bio farming. Growing materials like cotton directly from cell's cultures.
The methods that are used today for growing marijuana indoors will be applied for more common things when prices go down.
Nobody better than you to identify the markets that will grow in the future. It is also a very good idea if you know (or associate with someone who knows) economics and marketing and selling.
All those things are hard problems. I have worked on those in the south of Spain and in Holland as engineer and entreprenour.
The real life is not Academia, your title means nothing if you can not apply it and give results, but means a lot if you can. So you will need some time to adapt to a different mentality.
I believe it makes no sense that you discard the knowledge you already have. You can apply data science methods with the knowledge that you have going to work or creating a new company that works in agriculture using new methods.
Do you want to spend your life doing surveillance and spying on people like everybody else? This is fashionable but people are starting to resist and develop antibodies for it as they understand it more. The TV or the phone that I bought spying or me is not acceptable.
Agriculture will grow enormously in the future with things like LED and other methods to give energy to plants, or plankton or whatever. Drones controlling pests or humidity or temperature. Using natural insects predators for bio farming. Growing materials like cotton directly from cell's cultures.
The methods that are used today for growing marijuana indoors will be applied for more common things when prices go down.
Nobody better than you to identify the markets that will grow in the future. It is also a very good idea if you know (or associate with someone who knows) economics and marketing and selling.
Reason from First principles is extremely useful for identifying new waves that will carry you in the future with no effort. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV3sBlRgzTI
All those things are hard problems. I have worked on those in the south of Spain and in Holland as engineer and entreprenour.
The real life is not Academia, your title means nothing if you can not apply it and give results, but means a lot if you can. So you will need some time to adapt to a different mentality.