Farmer uses drone to retrieve stolen livestock
Stock theft costs farmers over R1 billion every year, and so this story is an encouraging, heart-warming one …
Digital Agriculture
Introduction Following the introduction of mineral fertiliser, mechanisation and the industrialisation of the production process, digital agriculture brings the next major movement. It is part of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR). Digital agriculture refers to the use of agricultural technology (AgriTech) and data-driven innovations to predict outcomes and guide the producer through every phase of […]
Drones
Introduction Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) Distant water points and livestock are obvious things that require checking up on, and how better to do it than sending an unmanned aircraft (during the day or night) to confirm that all is in order. Useful applications of drones in agriculture revolve around: surveillance of livestock, vehicles etc damage […]