• DOI:10.20546/IJCMAS.2019.801.264
• Corpus ID: 115378211

Application of Drone in Agriculture

@article{Ahirwar2019ApplicationOD,
  title={Application of Drone in Agriculture},
  author={S. Ahirwar and Raghunandan Swarnkar and S. Bhukya and G. Namwade},
  journal={International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences},
  year={2019}
}

• S. Ahirwar, R. Swarnkar, +1 author G. Namwade
• Published 20 January 2019
• Engineering
• International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences

The world population has increases day by day and projected to reach 9 billion people by 2050, so the expert expect that the agricultural consumption will also increase in the same time period. In order to feed this larger, more urban and richer population, food production (net of food used for biofuels) must increase by 70 percent. Annual cereal production will need to rise to about 3 billion tonnes from 2.1 billion today and annual meat production will need to rise by over 200 million tonnes to reach 470 million tonnes. Agriculture sector is the most promising sector and challenging sector because it is depends on climate or weather, condition of the soil, irrigation water quality and quantity and their application rate. This report argues that the required increase in food production can be achieved by adopting the advance technologies in agricultural production. The Use of advanced technologies such as drone in agriculture offer potential for facing several major or minor challenges. The major applications of drone in agriculture are irrigation, crop monitoring, soil and field analysis and bird control.