Unmanned Ariel Vehicles(UAV) In Agriculture

By Mayur Patil

Yogeshwar Chavan

An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), commonly known as a drone, is an aircraft without a human pilot aboard.

The flight of UAVs may operate with various degrees of autonomy: either under remote control by a human operator, or fully or intermittently autonomously, by onboard computers.

What is UAV?

Agricultural drones are drones applied to farming in order to help increase crop production and monitor crop growth. Through the use of advanced sensors and digital imaging capabilities.

UAV In Agriculture

The Yamaha R-MAX is a Japanese unmanned helicopter developed by the Yamaha Motor Company in the 1990s.

Past Scenario

In October of 1997, Yamaha released its new RMAX industrial-use unmanned helicopter, which featured greater payload capacity and greater ease of operation.

Earlier in 2014, Skymet,AIC & the Gujrat Govt. implemented satellite remote sensing technologies & drones across 10 villages in Morbi district of gujrat.

Japan, representing a 77% market share. And, the number of people capable of operating them has grown to about 7,500 nationwide.

Current Scenario

The Indian government has launched collaborative research project involving use of drone technology in farming sector.

In January 2016,the agriculture ministry announced that it would allow the Mahalonobis National Corp Forecast Center

(MNCFC) to purchase UAV’s for accessing crop damage.

GPS Guidance and Auto-steer Section Control on Sprayers Row Control on Planters and Seeders Yield Monitoring Remote Sensing In-field Sensing Data Management Variable Rate Applications Telematics Robotics

Technologies Used in UAV

The use of drones in agriculture is expected to make up to 80% of their future commercial UAV market.

Future Scenario

While technology is still catching up to the use of drones as implementation tools, the field is indeed ready for their use in data collection and analysis for precision farming.

Agriculture Drones Market is expected to grow from USD 864.4 Million in 2016 to USD 4,209.2 Million in 2022 at a CAGR of 30.19%.

Hybrid drones are expected to capture the largest share of the market by 2022.

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