Efficacy of Drone Technology in Agriculture: A review

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.