Our ancestors committed themselves daily to work in the fields throughout the day. Even today it has become a crucial part of the life of most of the farmers, which is considered as an outdated culture according to some experts. The reason being that cultivation and animal husbandry ought to speed up to meet the steadily increasing demand for food. Agricultural production should increase by at least 70% from present trends to meet the projected requirement of 9.7 billion people by 2050.
Farm automation, commonly associated with ‘smart farming’ is the process of utilizing various technological innovations to upgrade and automate agriculture to do it at the field or post-harvest level. Currently different companies propose and introduce different software and automated machinery to smoothly speed up the production process. Out of which drones have piqued the interest of many farmers where they are mainly used to monitor the fields remotely and even used to apply pesticides, fertilizer, and irrigation! Drones such as the Agras MG-1 are able to carry 10 liters of liquid in a single fill and irrigate over 6000m² of farmland in just under 10 minutes. This technology enables the farmers to cut off the cost of labor; the main factor of cost of production. Moreover, drones and similar technology have provided the solution for labor shortage which has been a persistent issue in farming. This has allowed the farmers to expand their production smoothly and efficiently.