Advantages Of Modern Agriculture

Various modern techniques are practiced in Agriculture for increasing production and quality of crops. Improved plant varieties , seed production,Integrated pest management seed treatments are some advance techniques related to seed quality and have direct effect on yield of the crop. 

Agriculture technology

Technology has played a big role in the developing agricultural industry. Today it is possible to grow crops in a desert by use of agricultural biotechnology . With this technology, plants have been engineered to survive in drought conditions. Through genetic engineering scientists have managed to introduce improved traits which effect  the plant growth and development.

Lets take a good example. A bacterium known as ”Bacillus Thuringiensis” acts like a reservoir , it enables crops to be insect-resistant , so these genetically modified crops will grow without any interference from pests. The invention of this technology is being used in developing countries to grow cash crops like cotton, since this genetically engineered cotton plants are pest resistant, they grow better than the normal cotton plants hence yielding good results.

”Use of technology today and tomorrow”

Use of technology in agriculture give a massive advantage to the farmers as they are using mobile apps to calculate the amount of grass available in the field.They can use advance agricultural machinery for application of pesticides and fertilizers .This saves the farmer time and money, they will know how much is left and what to feed their animals. Technology has turned farming into a real business, now farmers have electrified every process, a consumer can place an order directly online, and the product will be transported from the farm to the consumer in time when it’s still fresh. This saves the farmer money and it cuts out mediators who tend to buy low from farmers and sell high to end consumers. Every farmer uses this technology in their own way. Some use it to create fertilizers, others use it to market their products, and others use it in production. So as a farmer, you have to specify what you need.

Advantages of Technology:

Most people are unaware of the true significant of agriculture in our society. It’s more than just to provide food to the total numbers of individuals in a certain country. Agriculture does not only provide our nourishment for our daily intake but also an income source of every single nation that exists on this planet, where most manufacturing industries as well as businesses are dependent on it. Without giving a serious attention on it, any country can be politically and economically unstable and paralyzed in any ways.

When social development rises to its peak, so is the importance of technology in agriculture was fully recognizes and brings to open. It began in the early times when our forefather thought of tilling the ground and establishing food crops and grain as a main source of food aside from animals. They were not aware to the benefits of technology as we all know.Agriculture does not only develop every place it has implanted but also give additional knowledge and provide a better technology. No one can deny its importance in our daily lives for it has transformed mankind continually from time to time.

Most Advanced Agricultural machinery:

Actuating technologies and innovative sensing along with improved information and communication technologies have provided the potential for fast agricultural inventions. Besides, the full exploitation of modern engineering advances will always require traditional agricultural methods and machinery management processes to be revisited.

In the next few decades, farming is expected to be revolutionized by the use of fatigue-free self-driving tractors or robots that perform the time-consuming tasks that are being done by humans.

Invention, innovation and sales of the major farm machinery have been rising rapidly amid stable prices for some key crops like corn and soybeans. However, the ever-present need of controlling farm input costs and increasing output has eventually driven farmers to adopt modern farming technologies. It is predicted that farm technologies is going to be market opportunity worth more than $200 billion for agricultural suppliers, with driver less tractors worth $45 billion market on its own. Goldman Sachs further predicts that tens of billions is going to be spent in advanced technology for most of the major farm uses such as precision planting, fertilizer application, spraying and irrigation.

The rising costs of man-power working on a piece of farm against the falling costs for automated self-driving technology provides further boost and catalysts for the agricultural technology revolution. The progress observed in self-steering technology for automobiles which includes both the radar and lidar technology and object detection abilities using high-powered camera systems – could further help speed up the production and adoption, while reducing the costs of these modern machinery at the same time. Using Geographic Positioning System, autonomous tractors could easily work unmanned around the clock. Farmers conveniently could monitor and control the tractor using devices such as mobile phones or tablets.

Automation in the agricultural industry is growing exponentially with almost all fields of farming requiring minimum physical human intervention. Some dairies are already using robotic milking machines. Using a technology known as lettuce bot, farmers could thin lettuce automatically. All these were achieved due to scarce labor resulting to high cost. Moreover, the equipment does a better job than the human labor. These agricultural robots are facilitating what autonomous steering trend that is limited to large farm machinery could not serve. Some of these robots could work in groups or swarm-like action. The key advantage of smaller and lighter machinery is that they reduce soil erosion while enhancing soil compactness. This highly increases yields per acre of a farm.

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