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Agri Business Review | Saturday, December 03, 2022
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Rising technologies in agriculture, like robots, AI, IoT, etc., are increasing yields, enhancing water efficiency, and upbringing resilience and sustainability in crop production and animal husbandry.
Fremont, CA: In the last 50 years, there have been many changes in the agriculture sector. Enhanced land cultivation has followed agricultural innovations, especially in technology, which have enhanced farm equipment's pace, scale, and productivity over time.
Agriculture is at the center of yet another upheaval in the twenty-first century. Upcoming agriculture technologies, such as robots, AI, IoT, etc., boost yields, improve water efficiency, and foster resilience and sustainability in crop production and animal husbandry.
The capacity to address the rising need for digitalization, farm automation, and sustainability lies in agricultural technology developments. The agricultural industry is responding to how technology has transformed farming by moving toward efficiently using resources and time while decreasing crop losses.
Many technologies have emerged to convert how we address the digitization of the industry. Let's study a handful of them that are affecting agriculture's future.
Agricultural robots
Farmers regularly struggle with a labor shortage, especially in big enterprises. Agricultural robots are the innovative technology that is resolving this issue in agriculture
Several businesses have begun producing robots to help farmers with labor-intensive manual operations such as harvesting, fruit picking, planting, spraying, and weeding. Therefore, many farmers worldwide have already started using agricultural technology to automate monotonous fieldwork.
Artificial Intelligence
Utilizing AI-backed data and software in field operations indicates agriculture technology's applicability. Artificial intelligence assists farmers in making wise judgments by supplying data on the weather, crop output, and even the best crop prices they should retain.
Drones
It's difficult to balance increasing agricultural output and reducing expenditures. But one modern agricultural technology helping farmers overcome this obstacle: is drones. The equipment collects raw data, which gets then converted into usable data for agricultural monitoring.
Startups are designing drones to assess soil mineral chemical composition and chlorophyll levels in many drone-based agriculture technology instances.
Connectivity technologies
Smart farming is unthinkable without evolved connection technologies like 5G, LPWAN, or satellite-based communication. Likewise, the use of technologies, for example, robots, Internet of Things (IoT) devices, sensors, etc., which need high-speed real-time communication, is made likely by connectivity technical breakthroughs in agriculture.