Precision Farming: Deep Tech Revolution Is Re-Inventing Indian Agriculture
Until the mid-1960s, India was dependent on imports to meet food requirement of its populace, writes Anushruti Singh at SME Futures. Harvest failures, droughts, and famine were very frequent. The Green Revolution led India out of era of chronic food shortage and helped our country to usher into food self-sufficiency. Afterwards, India became a food exporter in the 1990s.
Today, the tech-revolution is changing the way India is farming. For example, Mali Narendra, owner of Vadli Farm in Banaskantha district of Gujarat, uses an app based on satellite imagery to keep tabs on what is going on on his farm. Similarly, farmers in Khutahan village in Mirzapur recently learned to use drones for planting seeds.
A team of agricultural experts from Banaras Hindu University (BHU) demonstrated the use of drones in fields of rice and wheat. Tractors could not be used for tilling due to wet soil.
The new generation of tech-savvy farmers like them is re-inventing agriculture methods. By adopting new techniques and by analyzing data gathered from sensory gadgets present in tractors, farmers can make decisions from the imagery of crops.
“Through the data that is collected through precision farming or deep tech, decisions for agronomic processes on farms can be taken. The right measures taken towards precision farming and deep tech should be made available at affordable costs to these farmers and will help them in improving their productivity and to achieve better profitability,” says Sanjay Borkar, CEO and Co-founder of FarmERP, an agritech platform for smart agriculture solutions.
This approach is called precision farming or deep-tech agriculture which makes farming more accurate and controlled.
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