Agricultural revolution with drones and precision farming.

New technology has an important role to play in sustainable agriculture ,the vice president of precision solutions and telematics operations Marzia said, adding that one of the most important new developments in precision farming was the advent of telematics. An agricultural revolution that uses telematics data is creating new opportunities which will require open, secure and accessible data systems. Telematics allow for the wireless transfer of data from machines at work on the field to the farm office, enabling real time monitoring and two way communications, whether for the optimization of a single machine or that of all farming processes. Ian Beecher-Jones, a precision farming consultant noted that about 60% of Britain’s farmland is being managed by precision methods, which include sensor systems, cameras, drones, microphones, virtual field maps, analytics and GPS-guided tractors. These technologies – examples of the so-called internet of things – are fueling what is being called the agricultural revolution. Clive Blacker, an arable farmer from Yorkshire, recognized about 20 years ago that change was coming. “It was 1998,” he said, “and it came being sat on the tractor seat and realizing that there was so much variability in the fields. There are the good bits and the bad bits, and we were treating them all the same way. I thought that there were better solutions for this.” Blacker began to experiment with nascent technologies like yield mapping and, in 2004, set up a small business, Precision Decisions, to supply hardware to farmers. One of the technologies he markets is the N Sensor from the German firm, Yara, which he says is being used at 250 farms in the UK. The N Sensor gives an example of the kind of precision farming technology available to farmers today. It consists of a cab-mounted tool – imagine a surfboard bolted onto the roof of a tractor – that is equipped with sensors at either end. The sensors gaze outwards, analyzing the color of a growing crop. From this data the N Sensor determines its chlorophyll content and, by an extension of logic, the crop’s nitrogen requirement. The N Sensor then relays the data to a spreader, which, in turn, applies the required dose of fertilizer to a specific part of the field. A Defra report found that 22% of farmers have GPS steering systems, 20% do soil mapping, 16% variable rate application (using technology like the N Sensor) and 11% yield mapping. Although these numbers might seem low, precision techniques are mostly used by farmers with large acreages who have greater resources to invest in the technology and make it cost effective. The agricultural revolution involve smart farming , It involves the use of miniature robots moving up and down the fields, inspecting plants and tugging out weeds. There are weather dependent sprayers and drones that hovered in the sky, relaying data to the farmhouse where charts of fields were plotted at a central hub. Sensors on animals also relays data to central hub for effective monitoring of animals on the field and on farms for different parameters. CNH Industrial offers a range of precision farming solutions spanning the crop production phases of planting, growing, harvesting and planning through the company’s global agricultural machinery brands, Case IH and New Holland Agriculture. Visit