A agricultural drone is used in yield optimization and in monitoring crop growth and crop production. Agricultural drones provide better crop growth stages, crop health, and soil variations.

Drones are used in agriculture as they provide multiple benefits to farmers some of the major benefits are as follows

• Helps fight climate change by lessening the use of chemicals through data driven targeted usage
• Agri Drones don’t need traditional fuels as they run on Batteries which make them easier to use and more environment conscious
• Drones provide a safer way to spray chemical pesticides and insecticides as they don’t require manual spraying which involves risks such as inhalation/ingestion of the chemical pesticides/insecticides
• Drones can spray a Farm with lesser amount of pesticides as they can target a specifiesd area and control the extra spraying
• Fast & frequent Access to Crop data that helps in monitoring crop growth, crop health and soil condition
• It saves time and as it can perform many tasks in a short period of time

Agricultural Drones are mostly used for

• Aerial seeding
• Inspection
• Spraying
• Protection from Animals
• Crop Monitoring

Drones have proved themselves useful especially in detecting irrigational Flaws as it provides accurate and fast data.

Usage  Drones has also brought down the cost of aerial surveillance as before drones the aerial surveys were conducted by manned airplanes which costed on an average $1000 USD but after the induction of Drones in agriculture a farmer can own a drone at the same cost that is $1000 USD and use it as per his needs for a longer period of time

Drones have proven themselves to be a revolutionizing tool in agro industry but there are some reasons to be worried about as drones can carry Cameras and Microphones which if used in an improper way can invade the privacy of people. Most Common opposition to Drone use is the fear of being Spied.

Some Top Agricultural Drones

• DJI Agras T16, T 20, T30,
• WingTraOne
• SenseFly eBee X
• DJI Matrice 300RTK
• SenseFly eBee AG
• DJI Phantom 4 RTK

DJI Phantom Multispectral