Book excerpt: This book constitutes revised selected papers from the First International Conference on Agriculture-Centric Computation, ICA 2023, held in Chandigarh, India, in May 2023. The 18 papers were thoroughly reviewed and selected from the 52 submissions. They examine how computing disciplines such as big data analytics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, the Internet of Things (IoT), remote sensing, robotics, and drones can be applied to agriculture to address some of the biggest challenges facing the industry today, including climate change, food security, and environmental sustainability.