Agricultural Drones are helpful in crop production

Farmers often get puzzled and worried about their farm when they have problem with crop growth. Sometimes plants are wilting and growing more slowly. Farmers cannot instantly diagnose what causes such sluggish growth. To resolve these issues, drones are developed. Drones that fly are also called unmanned aerial vehicles.



Agricultural drones are the outcome of emerging technology and revolution in agriculture industry. These drones are applied to agri-business in order to augment crop production and observe crop growth. Today agriculturalists have great options of using drone with advanced sensors and digital imaging capabilities to help them gather good picture of their fields. This valuable information congregated from such equipment is useful to enhance crop yields and farm productivity.

To operate drone, farmers enters a flight path for the drone using smart phone. They program in the area of field where the drone must take images and videos. The drone flies on its own but the farmer watches as it crisscross the field. After about 20 minutes, drone returns to the farmer and lands. Then farmer has to download data from drone to his laptop and evaluate the images captured by drone camera. He can see evidences of pests on the leaves, notices dry patches in the soil where the plants lack water. With such relevant information, farmers can now manage their crops.

Drone technology is highly beneficial for the agriculture sector as it provides a high-technology remodelling, with planning and strategy based on real-time data collecting and processing. Aerial and ground-based drones can be used for soil and field analysis, planting, crop spraying, crop monitoring, irrigation and health analysis.

Best part of these smart farming drones is that a drone can fly under any weather condition. Drones are water resistant, but there may be poor image quality if pictures are taken during drizzling weather. Important fact about drones is that it can fly around 50 - 100m high. Drones can capture farm pictures with a resolution down to a few cm per pixel. A drone can get higher quality and higher precision of images in real time as they can fly below the clouds. Basically raw data gathered by drones is translated into valuable information for farmers. These images provide plant counting such as plant size, plot statistics, stand number, compromised plots, planter skips, plant height, vegetation indices, water needs.

Most suitable drones for farming monitoring are fixed wing and multi rotor drone. Fixed wing drones have capacity to monitor long range of area. They are also crash tolerant. 


Multi rotor drone are faster to set up in the field and can take off and land vertically.

In India, drone manufacturing market is growing and many industries are jumping to this business. For agricultural spraying multicopters, the Department of Agriculture Machines and Technology of the University of Agricultural Sciences had developed a multicopter for spraying pesticides on high and tall crops. 


Drones guarantee a permanent monitoring of the yield in the field from planting to harvest. Drone can help agriculturalists to appraise issues which affect production and sustainability. Drone technology offers agriculturists with a lucrative method of infrastructure planning.

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