YOGYAKARTA - The advantage of using drones in agriculture is huge, this is one of the technologies driving precision agriculture. Precision agriculture is science to increase efficiency, productivity, yields and profits through the use of technology. According to analysts, drones in agriculture will be worth 5 billion dollars by the end of 2025. Wow!
Drones are a powerful tool for farmers and agnomy experts to assess the health of their crops. By using drones, they can get an overview of their fields and collect data more quickly and more efficiently than traditional methods. Drones will allow farmers to see how healthy their crops are, where they may need water or nutrients, and if there is pest activity before it gets out of control.
Drones help farmers save money by allowing them to quickly identify problems that may be missed without using drones. The wrong approach could lead to the loss of hundreds of or even thousands of dollars worth of harvest due to problems that are not immediately known on the ground.
Saving Time & Cost
One of the main benefits of using smart technology in agriculture is the reduced time it takes to complete many tasks. Drones are much more time-efficient than manned aircraft for things like mapping, surveillance, and crop spraying.
Drones are also used to plant seeds, spray plants with water, fertilizers, pesticides, and herbisides. Because many of these operations can be done through smart flight modes, they are semi-automatic which generate less time spent in the field which saves farmers money for labor equipment.
Fast Data Acquisition For Accurate Livestock Analysis
Through a method called drone photogravimetry, drones can help acronomous farmers and experts create very accurate 3D maps and 3D area models. With drone mapping software like Pix4DFields or Drone Deploy, images taken by drones can be combined to obtain a topography map of agricultural land. Drones can be equipped with various types of cameras such as RGB, multispectral, and thermal cameras that allow farmers to gain access to various forms of data.
Data from this map will help farmers make the necessary adjustments to ensure that the land remains healthy and productive. Because drones are easy to use, farmers can obtain field data as often as they want which will help them identify problems as soon as they occur and allow them to draw up action plans and reduce the negative effects this problem may have.
Helping Against Climate Change
By reducing the use of chemicals through targeted treatments based on data and reducing the need for fossil fuels as drones are powered by intelligent batteries, drones can help reduce pollution, help the environment, and help fight climate change.
Improved Plant Products
Drones allow farmers to get plant data quickly and often, this keeps them above things like irrigation problems, plant disease and soil conditions. All of these need to be in optimal condition so that plants can develop and farmers can meet their harvest expectations. Through precision agriculture, farmers and agROnomic experts can increase overall crop yields with a data-based variable rate prescription.
Using remote sensing technology, farmers can easily identify land areas that do not produce healthy plants, know what the problem is and only target the area for treatment that may be needed. This will improve overall plant quality, increase yields and save money in the long term.
Safer Ways To Spray Plants
Plant pests and disease will always be a problem for farmers, manual spraying of chemicals will always pose a health hazard and consume time and energy. Using drones to treat infected plants is much safer and more efficient than manual labor and using ground-based machines.
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Smart drones are also equipped with autonomous flight mode, this will allow farmers to plan flight lines only around areas that need to be treated and leave healthy field sections free of unnecessary chemicals. Not only is this a safer way to care for plants but farmers will also save money by not throwing care on plants that don't need them.
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