More than 70% of the Indian economy comes from agriculture. Lack of information and poor technology has created a lot of hurdles for the farmers in India. The introduction of the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), also known as drones, and analytics done post capturing the data has great potential to support and address some of the most pressing problems faced by agriculture. Problems in terms of access to actionable real-time quality data. A recent PwC report (PwC, 2016) estimates the agriculture drone market to be worth USD 32.4 billion.
Areas of improvement in Agriculture
▪️Traditional methods of farming ▪️Farmers do not have the access to technology ▪️Time consuming to check crop health ▪️Spraying of Pesticides is done manual and risky for the farmer ▪️Wastage of seeds & Fertilizer as the farmer does not know if the soil is healthy or not
Benefits of Using Drones
- Check Soil and Water Evaluation
- NDVI (Normalised Difference Vegetation Index)
- Prevention of environmental damage
- Effective monitoring of crop health
- Getting insights into the soil health
- Planning irrigation and the proper use of resources compost
- Pesticides spraying
- Saving of money for the farmers as they now know how much of fertilizer and pesticide to spray
- Crop growth and heath is monitored regularly and analysis done in a more accurate manner
