Artificial Intelligence : Agriculture
Here’s an alarming fact, the world will need to produce 50 percent more food by 2050 because we’re literally eating up everything! The only way this can be possible is if we use our resources more carefully. With that being said, AI can help farmers get more from the land while using resources more sustainably.
Issues such as climate change, population growth, and food security concerns have pushed the industry into seeking more innovative approaches to improve crop yield.
Organizations are using automation and robotics to help farmers find more efficient ways to protect their crops from weeds.
AI in Agriculture
Blue River Technology has developed a robot called See & Spray which uses computer vision technologies like object detection to monitor and precisely spray weed cide on cotton plants. Precision spraying can help prevent herbicide resistance.
Apart from this, Berlin-based agricultural tech start-up called PEAT, has developed an application called Plantix that identifies potential defects and nutrient deficiencies in the soil through images.
The image recognition app identifies possible defects through images captured by the user’s smartphone camera. Users are then provided with soil restoration techniques, tips, and other possible solutions. The company claims that its software can achieve pattern detection with an estimated accuracy of up to 95% In coming area