On a clear day above some farms and fishing sites, farmers and agriculture sector players look up for a glimpse of what lies ahead for the development of the country’s agriculture sector: unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or drones.
On a clear day above some farms and fishing sites, farmers and agriculture sector players look up for a glimpse of what lies ahead for the development of the country’s agriculture sector: unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or drones.
Indeed, the Philippines is not alone at a phase in human history when technology is fast advancing and producing machinery that could change what was once a laborious and tedious farming process to an efficient and automated one.
In fact, the country has seen the entry of farm machinery that has changed various manual operations to automated ones: carabaos into tractors, manual harvesting to combined harvesters. Now, the Department of Agriculture (DA) is evaluating the potential of drones to change how farmers plant seeds, apply fertilizers and pesticides, and even monitoring their crops.
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