Drones have the potential to be the technology-led transformation of Indian agriculture. Critically Analyse (200 Words)
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· Rail, DBT transfers, Soil Health Cards, e-NAM, and neem coating of urea, that have adopted, integrated and scale-up technology in agriculture.
· In India’s $600 billion agriculture sector, they are currently used for pesticide and nutrient application, mapping water spread area, sampling water, mapping macrophyte infestation etc.
· As per WEF, drone usage could reduce cost of application by 20 per cent and also mitigate health hazards of manual work, thereby promoting precision agriculture.
· Drones enable data collection and resource efficient nutrient application. This data facilitates crop production forecast, and evidence-based planning.
· With drones, government initiatives like Per Drop More Crop will improve and water use inefficiency in irrigation will decline.
· Second, drones’ data integrated with GIS and Google Earth satellite images will eventually streamline schemes like PMFBY by aiding crop cutting experiments, crop-loss estimation, insurance determination and dispute resolution.
· The need is to scale up drone use in agriculture sector from the present 10,000 aerial vehicles.
· To address this, FPOs and custom hiring centres should be encouraged to buy and loan them to the farmers for a nominal fee. The Ministry provides subsidies in the range of 40-60 per cent for the cost of drones.
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