Precision Agriculture Using Drones & AI Explained: How Autonomous Farming Tech Is Boosting Yields & Cutting Waste
By Lola Foresight
Publication Date: : 27 May 2016 — 11:18 GMT
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Agriculture’s digital revolution began in earnest around 2016, when drones, IoT sensors and machine-learning models converged into an intelligent farming ecosystem.
Precision agriculture allows farmers to:
- Map soil nutrient levels
- Analyze crop stress from the air
- Apply fertilizers only where needed
- Reduce water waste
- Predict yields with high accuracy
- Detect disease weeks before symptoms appear
This is the future of farming:
- Autonomous tractors
- Smart irrigation
- Real-time soil microbiome monitoring
- Predictive models for weather and pest patterns
Feeding 10 billion people will require intelligence — not expansion.
Precision agriculture is the intelligence layer agriculture always needed.
