Here in Africa apart from mechanized farming, farming in general have been energy consuming work, that require a lot of labours, for work to be done. You will need a lot of people to do the planting, application of fertilizer, weeding and many more, including harvesting. With all these processes you will discover many things have been lot and the yield from the farm will not be as expected.
Taking up mechanize farm will be nice but taking mechanize farming to the next level would be preferable, using drone to do everything in the farm, planting, harvesting, weeding and whatever. I am not saying other machine should be neglected in farming, but what I’m saying is this; drone technology should be use to improve mechanize farming..
Robotic technology application in agriculture can meet with the drastic increase in world population in term of supply of food. A group of researcher at Harper Adams University did research on how drone can be using in harvesting and in other agricultural process. They purchased several small size machines including tractor. The machines were fitted with electronics, actuators with robotic technology that make the machine work without human controls i.e. operators; this was the first step toward autonomy.
After this they moved on to preprogramming of all the actions that needed to be performed into the auto-pilot machines. The machines navigate on GPS and moved in the program directions. Present the machines are not able to move in a straight direction but trajectory, but researchers believe with years to come, they will be able to make more in a straight line.
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https://www.livescience.com/60567-robotically-tended-farm-completes-first-harvest.html
