marketwatch | I remember reading a piece about farmers using drones, and I must say I was impressed.
For
farmers, the transition from manned aircraft to drones is an easy
choice to make. Not only are they much cheaper, but they also provide
imaging tools, which can be used for detecting a variety of crop-related
issues, ranging from problems with irrigation to measuring chlorophyll
levels in plants.
So today I want to talk about the next step in
agri-tech evolution: robots. Although most modern farmers don’t have to
spend their days in the field anymore, sweating and toiling under the
sun while harvesting crops or tending to cattle, they still spend a
considerable amount of time servicing machines that harvest and spray
for them. If this part of the production were automated, farmers would
have more time (and money) to invest in expanding and perfecting their
production capacities.
They’d also boost yields in the process.
If
you think using robots in agriculture is too futuristic, think again:
They are already assisting with a growing number of back-breaking
activities in fields all over the world.
