The future of drones in farming: precision farming mapping and spraying

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Rizal Philippines
October 15, 2017

The Verge:    $15,000 drone for precision farm spraying

The Chinese TV channel recently featured the use of drones in agriculture.  The announcer mentioned the use of  Artificial Intelligence in the said drones to spray fertilize and map the farms, more efficiently (faster and cheaper than what humans are capable of.  They are also safe and lessens exposure of humans to pesticide.  Price ranges from $3,000 to $15,000

The Agras as the drones are known are made by DJI and features  8 blades and can carry about 2 gallons of pesticide and can cover 7 to 10 acres in one hour.  It is 40x more efficient than human spraying and faster

Business Insider - Use of Drones in Precision Farming

The use of drones in the military: patrol, recon and even armed flights are well known, in photography but  little is reported its use in agriculture

Could drones be the future of courier and transportation business?

From CNN Tech Innovation | June 4, 2013



What lies ahead for the drones, now that military drone strikes, especially those that kill civilians would be considered illegal? (war crimes?)

Some alternatives would be to use them for journalism as in U of Nebraska, where they are made as cheap alternatives for covering disaster:  forest fires, train wrecks, aftermath of typhoon, etc.

Now it would seem here in this CNN article/post, that drones could be effective means of courier service and transportation in far flung, no accesss to transportation areas/

What do you think