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Top Five Agriculture Technologies for Better Agriculture

1. Agriculture Drone Technology :

Agricultural Drone is simply a low-cost aerial camera platform. It is either miniature fixed-wing airplanes or, more commonly, quadcopters and other multibladed small helicopters. Drones are the aircraft which equipped with an autopilot using GPS and a standard point-and-shoot camera controlled by the autopilot.

Using drones farmers can see a crop from the air can reveal patterns also it expose everything like soil variation, irrigation problems, even pest and fungal infestations that aren’t apparent at eye level. Drones can watch and survey a crop every hour, every day and every week and after this survey it can combined to create a time-series animation to show the changes in the crop to reveal trouble spots or opportunities for better crop management.

Also airborne cameras can take multispectral images, capturing data from the infrared as well as the visual spectrum, which can be combined to create a view of the crop that highlights differences between healthy and distressed plants in a way that can’t be seen with the naked eye.

2. Agricultural Robots :

These robots are special robots which are specially deployed for agriculture or for doing agricultural work. Now a days agricultural robots are used mainly at the harvesting stage.

A possible emerging application are robots for weed control. Agricultural robots are designed to increase efficiency and lighten the farmer’s load.Some examples of robots are such as Bee Bot, Wine Bot, Herder Bot, Wine Bot, Hamster Bot, etc.

3. Irrigation Technology :

The method in which water is supplied to plants at regular intervals for agriculture is call irrigation. Now a day’s digital technology is also used in the irrigation process. Somewhere the computer system applies a crop factor for low, medium or high watering over a season and calculates dripper run times, based on the individual irrigation system’s output. A short message is automatically sent to a mobile phone by SMS each morning.

The use of efficient irrigation technology improves crop yields and quality through direct impacts as well as indirect ones, such as decreased soil salinity, fewer attacks from pests and diseases, and less weed competition.

4. Agriculture Mobile Apps :

Agriculture Mobile applications are one of the most important technology which is developed for the farmers to ease their agriculture task. There are some mobile applications specially developed for the agriculture sector. Some of these apps are used for irrigation management purpose, some are used for agriculture inventory management, some are for getting commodity updates, etc.

So using mobile phones farmers can do so much work easily and efficiently. Example of some agriculture apps are such as "Oilseeds at a Glance" Mobile application, Plantix App, ConserWater app, etc.

5. Sensors Technology :

High-resolution crop sensors inform application equipment of correct amounts needed instead of prescribing field fertilization before application. Optical sensors or drones are able to identify crop health across the field by using infra-red light.

Collars with GPS, RFID and biometrics can automatically identify and relay vital information about the livestock in real time. Some sensors would enable a real time understanding of current farm, forest or body of water conditions.