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.

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