Agriculture and the rate of change are getting faster. Metascan: Emerging technology, offering “vision that explores how the technology that appears will shape the economy and society and challenges and opportunities they will make. “Research further expects the market for the technology that emerges from expanding the agricultural robot market’s market size from “$ 817m in 2013 to $ 16.3b in 2020, when the report added:” Great growth for the newborn market. “Indeed!
With Robotics as the key to new agricultural work, other high-tech allies will collaborate with agrarian robots. In order to accelerate productivity and cut in-depth to the cost of labor or agricultural overhead or prices that soar for seeds, herbicides, and fertilizers. Agricultural robots are only part of the overall trend on more automatic processes for each human business type. Robots use is wider than expected in various sectors. And trends will likely continue with robotics to be everywhere likes computer technology for the next 15 years. “
Although reports include beginner technology rafts in many industries, some agriculture will impact the new agricultural world that slid the road for the next five to six years.
Agribots.
The main drive in the agricultural revolution is a robot. Because of the demands to increase productivity or lack of sufficient labor. Or search for a more comfortable work-life and career, robots are a choice of agricultural machinery. Agriculture can be much more efficient and environmentally friendly on existing agricultural land, given the prospects of more massive automation using AI, robotics, and sensors.
Robot robots are digitally connected, communicating with drones. And orders from satellites, land-based sensors, or from the data center of agricultural housing, tablets, or smartphones, will be the ruler of the fields and gardens. Automatic tractors and sprayers can apply water, seeds, pesticides, and nutrients more targeted and on time. This precision can be further enhanced through pesticides and insecticides based on nanomaterial and slow release.
Robot pickers will continue to appear and, in time, can harvest more types of plants.
Automatic agriculture can make indoor agriculture more feasible in areas where climate change degrades fertile land, food supply, and reliability.
Precision agriculture
Agricultural management base on observation (and responding) intra-field variations. With sophisticated satellite and sensor imagery, farmers can optimize input return while preserving resources on grander scale. Understanding plant variability, geolocated weather data, and the right sensors must increase automatic decision-making and complementary planting techniques.
Artificial intelligence, automation
However, practically motorize vehicles are only one small piece of IoT innovation and machine learning in agriculture. A new AI system that uses a combination of voice recognition, machine vision, and temperature sensors is now being trialed to keep track of the health, well-being, and location of pigs. Other cases of AI use include highly advance disease detection in crops using several similar techniques.
All exciting stuff, but it is just the tip of the iceberg. Much of AI’s true potential has realize, with the field still being very much in its infancy.
Block chain technology
While many people will have heard of block chain within the sphere of crypto currency finance. The agricultural world is starting to incorporate this innovative new technology differently. Most of the earliest block chain applications in agriculture were concerning supplying chains and traceability. The status of crops could be record and update using block chain, right from harvesting through to delivery. The real benefit of this for more extensive operations, in particular, is a secure, highly accurate ledger where nothing ever goes missing in transit. All crops that belong to a specific farmer can be trace in real-time. Block chain can also be used for resource management, like tracking other sensors and equipment, for example, or maintaining machinery records.
Urban agriculture and vertical farming
The big thing about urban agriculture, in particular, is how to make the best use out of what is often minimal farm space. Urban farms can, by nature, be relatively small. And could be an outdoor traditional community garden. However, they can still be treasure, offering an environmental control, self-contain pod. Sometimes they may even be stack on top of each other known as vertical farming. And despite the relatively small size, yields from vertical farming can be around ten times more efficient than traditional agriculture. Although vertical farming doesn’t promise to turn the way we farm on its head. It can make considerable strides in efficient, productive farming methods. Traditional farmers could learn a lot from vertical farmers in their design. And building structures, making the smartest design increase yield and reduce waste.
As the world’s population continues to grow and take up more room. Efficiencies in space and farming practices will become all the more essential for feeding ourselves. Unfortunately, no matter how intelligently we design and how high we build, humans have a massive effect on the environment. Only the continuation of technical advancement in this sector can see us having any chance of keeping up with our agricultural demands in the future.
Genetic editing
Scientists have now start to utilize CRISPR/Cas9 to carry out genetic “surgeries.” Which allows them to identify and alter an organism’s genome by replacing or removing specific genetic sequencing on a strand of DNA.
Now, CRISPR is being used to modify a cow’s gut microbes to control the animal’s size and reduce the amount of methane they produce. Adjusting the micro biomes of cows in this way could make more meat on less food. This, in turn, leads to industry efficiency and increase profitability.
Scientists have also begun to engineer crops that can thrive on less water and yield more food. Of course, when messing with genetics in any ecosystem, unforeseen challenges could arise there – we’ll have to be highly cautious that we don’t create more problems than we solve.
