Efficacy of Drone Technology in Agriculture: A review

ASHUTOSH UPADHYAYA; PAWAN . JEET; PREM KUMAR SUNDARAM; ANIL KUMAR . SINGH; KIRTI SAURABH; MANMOHAN DEO

doi:10.21921/jas.v9i03.11000

ASHUTOSH UPADHYAYA International Crops Research Institute for the Semi Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru 502 324, Telangana, India
PAWAN . JEET ICAR-Research Complex for Eastern Region, Patna 800 014, Bihar, India
PREM KUMAR SUNDARAM Guangxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanning, Guangxi, China
ANIL KUMAR . SINGH ICAR-Indian Institute of Natural Resins and Gums, Namkum, Ranchi 834 010, Jharkhand, India
KIRTI SAURABH ICAR-Indian Institute of Natural Resins and Gums, Namkum, Ranchi 834 010, Jharkhand, India
MANMOHAN DEO ICAR-Indian Grassland and Fodder Research Institute, Jhansi 284 003, Uttar Pradesh, India

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21921/jas.v9i03.11000

Keywords: Drone, Unmanned aerial vehicle, Agriculture, Water management, Sensor

Abstract

Drones are unmanned aircrafts that are sent by a pilot on the ground to perform a task with a remote control or that are automatically flown by loading a previously made flight program. The applications of drone technology in the agriculture are addressed in this paper. This technology has broad scope in various fields such as managing water in agricultural systems, water stress detection, disease and pest detection, yield/maturity estimation, weed flora detection, monitoring of workforce, maintaining the livestock and concern logistics. It saves operating time, work accuracy, input costs such as land, water, seed and agro-chemical, and workforce in agriculture.