10 Powerful Roles of Drones in Agriculture That Dramatically Enhanced Productivity

 Modern Technological Use of Drones in Agriculture

            Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) are simple known as drones because their size is low and of two types automated (controlled automatically) or manually controlled. The weight remained maximum up to 20 kilograms. There are different kinds of drones used in agriculture in know a days which includes fixed wing, rotary wing, tethered vehicle and lighter than air. Currently drones are used in different activities in agriculture which ar given below:

1. Drones are used to investigate the irrigation requirement of the crops that supports the consumptive and homogenized use of water. These are the need of current century in which limited supply of water available for crops.
2. This technology is quite helpful in pest and disease scouting in crops. With UAV larger area could be covered in less time and labor. In this approach there will be less error chances as compared to labor method.
3. To count the number of plants, density and overall crop health can be measured through drones and different yield related traits can measure in short duration.
4. Soil analysis is easy through drones in which soil general health, organic matter, water requirement, and level etc,.
5. This advancement is predominantly applied in forest to capture larger area monitoring, evaluation and research to analyze the growth or decline in forest area.
6. In fisheries, drones are using in many countries like Brazil to investigate the fish population in different natural resources.
7. Wildlife conservation is also analyzed easily through drones in which animals track, analyze and monitor the population through thermal cameras became easier.
8.  Application of artificial chemicals like fertilizer, pesticides and weedicide etc,.
9. It is reported fact that some drones are also used for planting at huge level.
10. These are helpful to investigate the nutrient deficiency in crop plants.

 

Links for Reference:

1. https://blog.agrivi.com/post/powerful-role-of-drones-in-agriculture_april2018
2. http://www.fao.org/3/I8494EN/i8494en.pdf
3. https://www.precisionag.com/market-watch/the-future-of-satellites-in-precision-agriculture/
4. https://www.slideshare.net/RedmondRaminShamshir/choosing-the-best-uav-drones-for-precision-agriculture-and-smart-farming-agricultural-drone-buyers-guide-for-farmers-and-agriculture-service-professionals