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Agricultural Drones, its Application and Future Prospects


Haseeb Ur Rehman, Manzoor Ah. Ganai, Ab. Shakoor Khanday, Tasneem Mubarak, Shahid Ahmad Shergojry
Pages: 95-108
ISBN: 978-93-5834-527-8


Advanced Trends in Agricultural Extension (Volume -9)

Advanced Trends in Agricultural Extension
(Volume - 9)

Abstract

Agriculture and allied sectors are now facing several challenges, among which, the scarcity of labour, increasing cost of production, land degradation, climate change, new emerging pests and diseases, water scarcity etc., are very important. Furthermore, India’s population is expected to reach 1.64 billion by 2050 and it is required to produce up to 333 million tonnes of food grains in near future and much more horticultural produce. In this context, information and communication technologies (ICT) driven tools and solutions can help people to make better decisions and produce more from the ever-decreasing land resource. Among many emerging technologies which can provide solutions, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), often known as drones is one of the most recent innovation. It is also a non-human centric, transparent, evidence-based technology. It can save labour while also achieving social distancing norms during COVID 19 and national lockdown. In this chapter, an effort was made to synthesize available information on uses of drones in agriculture and allied sectors and its future prospects.

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