10 Aspects that tells how Farm Automation is Revolutionizing the Agriculture Productivity

         Farm Automation in modern era

       World population is expanding by time, it is reported that about 10 billion population will be expected at the year of 2050. Excessive colonization and population is demanding precision agriculture and smart farming to increase the productivity. Farm automation is in different forms which are discussed below:

1. Harvesting automation in fruits and vegetables are the problem solving steps to save the productivity and reduce the harvest loses like Agrobot and Abundant Robots are working on commercial robots for harvesting fruits in America.
2. Automated tractors is another important form of automation in farming that reduce labor cost and shorten the time duration especially in row farming. different companies like Rabbit Tractors and Bear Flag Robotics are working on driver less robot and programmed tractors for cultivation.
3. Robot for seeding are also commercialized in these days that can helpful in sowing various crops fast.
4. Farm automation through weeding robots that reduce herbicide application about 90% accurate at farm level. Some companies are also working on automated weedicide robots like Blue River Technology and ecoRobotix etc,.
5. Subsurface drip irrigation is another form of automatic irrigation at commercial farm level that reduce wastage of water and labor cost.
6. Planting from air drones are used for sowing and fertilization from the air in current era. Some companies are commercially preparing such as drones like Droneseed and Biocarbon.
7. Soil automated sensors are used to investigated and signal the farms about irrigation requirement of soil that ultimately enhance the yield e.g., CropX is a company that install soil sensor for the irrigation requirement etc. 
8. A harvester kit is also operated with harvester or combine with the tractor to harvest specific crop at huge area without driver operated operation. A company Autocart is offering this kit.
9. Compact tractors are prepared for the farm machinery for vineyard and gardens where compacted planting is done.
10. Obstacle detection technology is also fitted in automated tractors to identify the obstacle in farm  automated machinery.

               The above discussed technologies revolutionized the agriculture and enhanced the productivity about 100 times from the previous century. By subsidizing the agricultural farm automated machinery in underdeveloped and developing countries yield gap can be reduce. A huge yield gap is persisted in these countries can be reduce and enhance the productivity of agricultural commodities at world level.

Referral Links:

• https://www.plugandplaytechcenter.com
• https://www.engineering.com
• https://www.agriculture.com/robots-on-the-rise
• https://asirobots.com/farming/

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

9 Modern Technologies that Uplift Livestock Productivity

                            Livestock Industry Revolution 

Livestock industry supports the country agriculture with social and economic benefits. The industry not only provide food balance nutrition to the population and also economic returns in the form of organic fertilizer, meat, eggs, and milk etc. By automated technologies 40-50% farm production is enhanced Livestock productivity enhanced through following modern technological ways:

1. Modern Technology, Connected Cow: In this technology sensors are used to detect the animal health, nutrition, milk production and pregnancy hormones etc. By fitting sensors to individual animals huge information can collect with less labor.  
2. Robotized barns: These are helpful to clean the environment from harmful gases like carbon dioxide and ammonia that directly improve the farm animals health.
3. Controlled traffic farming through biosensors and GPS(satellite) are used to monitor the farm animals in huge grasslands to monitor the farm animals and grazing habitat quality.
4.  Application of genetics, genomics, biotechnology and bioinformatics is greatly helping the animal breeding objective to enhance the meat and milk production of farm animals.
5. Connected automated cameras are helpful to monitor the farms at micro level to macro level that uplift the productivity.
6. Drones for monitoring the health and productivity of farm animals during grazing are widly use in current days.
7. Automated incubators are used at farm level to enhance the poultry that directly enhance the productivity of farms.
8. Climate controlled system through automated sensors and robots are used with the help of internet to monitor the farms are playing an important role for agriculture livestock production.
9. Image acquisition powered smart technologies are used to monitor the farm climate, animal health and expected economic returns from the farms.

Referral Sites for further readings:

• https://doi.org/10.1590/1234-56781806-94790053s01005
• https://www.plugandplaytechcenter.com/resources/livestock-farming-technology-animal-agriculture/#:~:text=Livestock%20Technology%20and%20the%20'Connected%20Cow'&text=Livestock%20technology%20can%20enhance%20or,monitor%20health%20and%20increase%20productivity.
• https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280223445_Modern_technologies_of_animal_production_and_their_sustainability
• http://www.biolyse.ca/technology-used-in-raising-livestock/
• https://www.intechopen.com/books/animal-husbandry-and-nutrition/the-innovative-techniques-in-animal-husbandry
• https://iowaagliteracy.wordpress.com/2018/06/02/5-ways-technology-has-changed-farming/