What are the top 5 technology innovation in agriculture | Agriculture Technology

 Agriculture is one of the most important factor for a country. People living in the world , they need proper nutrition and diet so that they can achieve good health and maintain a sustainable life.  It was crop cultivation which helped us to start a civilization, all civilization of the mankind evolve from agriculture, it was when we learnt to do farming, to grow crops , cultivate them. Agriculture is something on which we all have to depend for food. So, including technology in agriculture is important for us because using modern technology we can achieve the goals of getting harmless crops, saving our crops from pests, knowing the weather conditions, harvesting crops, maintaining a storage for crops and more. Let us know some top 5 innovation which has been done in the field of Agriculture technology -

1- Precision Agriculture

Precision means something is cleared before doing any task, it is like a complete plan for performing a task, this method is used for agriculture where using tools like sensory devices, Information technology, and more are used to know the surrounding of a plot where crops are going to be planted, information like soil condition, weather conditions, amount of fertilizers needed, conditions of animals helpful for agriculture, and more , here mainly data of spatial variables are collected and then this data is analyzed for gaining exact farming results. 

2- Farm automation

Here , automated devices or tools are used for doing ploughing, seeding, cutting, harvesting and more in farming practices. Automated tractors or self driven tractors controlled through a remote are used, which are connected with GPS, sensory devices and computers so it can analyze the weather conditions, soil conditions and then it can automatically plough, seed and harvest. Other equipment which are used in farm automation are Robots doing the seeding, Mobile apps for doing the health checkup of fields, Drone technology for monitoring the farms. Farm automation is surely a great step towards agriculture technology because it saves time and energy to cultivate.

3- Agriculture Sensors

Electronic sensors are used to make precision in agriculture for soil pH value, air temperature, humidity, weather conditions, light intensity and more. These sensors help farming to know when the plants needs more water, to distract insects, where to grow crops in plot, how much sunlight an area in a plot would receive, when to plough , where soil fertilizers are needed, etc.

4- Drone Technology

Drones are used to water the field, seed the plot, and monitor the field with the help of cameras. These drones can be controlled by human via a remote and human can control it for taking images of crops, 3d view of the field, to fertilize the farm, even to cut the crops, and more.

5- Vertical Farming

Vertical farming is cultivating plants in vertical form rather than horizontally on a field. This is particularly done on indoor practices. You must have seen roofs of high building filled with fruits or vegetables farms in vertical alignment. This is a great practice because using this technology one can grow plats or vegetables in less area and can do organic farming. 

So, above were 5 latest trends of technology used in agriculture. More examples of agriculture technology can be biotechnology, bee vectoring technology where bees are attracted to do pollination so that fruits, flowers, plants can be grown, GIS or Geographical Information System, Satellite Imaging to monitor the farm from anywhere and more agriculture technology are there which are getting advanced and used for farming purposes. Benefits of technology used in agriculture are it saves time, labor, energy, cost, increase the quality of crops, making the cultivation done without the availability of human like we can use remote based drones and machines to plough , seed , cut, harvest, irrigation and more, higher crop productivity, increased efficiency and helps us for knowing weather conditions, soil and air pressure and much more.

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