1ST INTER-REGIONAL
SMART AGRICULTURE FORUM
24-26 September 2018
Khartoum, Republic of Sudan
Sensors
Sensors support an instant integration of the physical world into electronically-based systems, resulting in effectiveness and reduced human labour. It stands to monitor the productivity of different farm areas and secure resolutions swiftly. It also helps in minimizing the risk and waste that can possibly obstruct the productivity of the yield by exchanging the vital information to the systems connected. The aggregated information is communicated to the farmer and to the other systems connected by the sensors in the field for further critical administration.
Genetic Editing
Genetic tech working towards the genetic modification of living organisms in detailed ways in order to generate superior output of the crops that directly improve yield by accelerating growth or making the plant provide tolerance and resistance. Genetically modified crops are provided protection from insect pests and herbicides. The world relies upon its food supplies and wheat, corn and rice are the basic. A wipe in any of these crops may threaten the food sustainability of masses. Also, the ability to use genetic modification to pest resistance into chief crops and making it commercially useful along with the benefit to safeguard against hazards.
Agbots
Agricultural Robots (AgBots) are deployed for agricultural purposes with a potential to transform the age old practice technologically. With the development in the applications of AgBots includes weed control, planting seeds, harvesting, monitoring and analysis. The aim of this autonomous incorporation in the hands of a machine is to cast away the dependence upon manual labour and the enhancement of output quality and efficiency. Incorporation of robotic labour effectively executes tasks which are difficult for the manual labour to carry out. It also reduces production cost and results in higher productivity.
Drones and UAV's
Agricultural Drones and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV's) are some newly employed machines practical to agriculture in order to help escalate the crop production and monitor its product growth. Due to the usage of innovative sensors and digital imaging abilities, farm workers are able to use these devices to help them gain a more comprehensively detailed information of their field area. Information gather round from such devices is beneficial in the improvement of product output and improves farming efficiency. The critical aspect being the aggregation and the analysis that helps the farm worker to acquire the entire information under the radar. The information that can discloses issues that include problems of irrigation, soil variation, and pest infestations. Projection of a near-infrared and visual spectrum view enabling the farmer to calculate any risk even the differences that are neglected by the human labour. The combination shows the farmer the differences between healthy and unhealthy plants, a difference not always clearly visible to the naked eye.
The Impending incorporation of technology has delivered to minimize risk and waste experienced so far by the traditional farming methods. Farm workers can today identify the parts detecting the fertility and the essential conditions to cautiously predict the possibility of the future harvest.
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