The Future Tech Frontiers

The invention and adoption of precision agriculture has been evolving with advancements in the concepts and the technology. Recently while addressing a forum on Precision Agriculture and its emerging trends, i happened to mention the Word ISOBUS and it caused a buzz and a debate. Electronic systems are currently the key driver of innovation in agricultural technology. However, progress is slowed by the lack of compatibility between proprietary solutions developed by different manufacturers, which often do not interact with systems from other manufacturers. When the industry first started, some companies made products that would only communicate to other products made by the same company. The lack of compatibility between machinery from different manufacturers leading to frustration among users/farmers. Today, all modern Precision Agriculture and agricultural machinery manufacturers are making inroads towards this common goal of compatibility.  ISOBUS is the ...

Have you ever noticed that there is a portion of your farm that's highly productive, another part of your farm is Moderately productive, and other parts of your farm is poor with regards to production? Do you know why? Are you aware of the solutions to that? Great, relax and read on!. I will try and explain it in the simplest terms possible. Every piece of agricultural land however small or big it may be has varying capabibilities in terms of yield. This means that, some part of your land will give you a higher yield while some parts will give you a lower yield. Therefore, a particular map can be drawn on your farm with regards to how much harvest was collected from each location of your farm.  A better way of knowing how well each part of your farm is doing is by monitoring crop health. Crop health data can be achieved through use of  drones . Drones equiped with special cameras take several NDVI  images all over the farm and such images upon analysis will gi...

Many at times, farmers in their quest to becoming top farmers strive to minimize cost while increasing their productivity. This is the big reason why every astute farmer MUST embrace the concept of Precision Agriculture.  I will try and put this in the simplest way possible; Precision agriculture is the approach to farming where crop and soil receives exact amount of inputs where it is needed such that inputs are minimized while the productivity or yield is maximized. This is achieved through use of information technology (IT) Internet of Things (IoT), big data science among other state of the art technological advancements. The advancements in global positioning systems (GPS) has greatly revolutionized precision agriculture. Gps is actually considered as the backbone to precision agriculture. From gps, systems such as Auto guidance and auto steering has been developed, advanced and greatly used in farm machinery. Modern farm machinery are fitted with various kinds of d...

Sell your tractors and buy drones! So recently i ventured into use of drones in perfoming large scale field spraying operations against fall army worms (a very dangerous pest that can finish your entire field in hours).  The experience was amazing, These small birds spray at alarmingly high speeds of upto 50km/hr ofcourse depending on the prevailing weather conditions. Moreover, they guarante an efficiency of upto 95% with regards to effective chemical use and application. Amizingly, they can work perfectly at night, as long as the pilot is willing to be available for a nights shift haha! Thats not all, its operation is as simple as flying any other toy drones (sic). Watch it here in Action What more! Sell you tractors and heavy farm implements and replace them with drones.