Kisan Drones For Farming Will Boost Agri Sector, Experts Say

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman delivered Budget 2022 on Tuesday, which included a substantial stimulus package for agriculture and farming. To assist farmers, the Union Budget advocated the use of drones for insecticide and nutrient spraying, as well as crop evaluation.

As she read out the Budget 2022-23 on, the Finance Minister stated, "Use of Kisan Drones for crop assessments, land records, spraying of insecticides, are expected to drive a wave of technology in the Agriculture and farming sector." She added Kisan drones would be pushed for crop evaluation, digitalization of land data, and bug pesticide spraying.

The government will encourage chemical-free natural farming across the nation, with a concentration on farmers' holdings in five-kilometer-wide corridors along the Ganga. With the government launching several programs and projects to stimulate the usage of drones, the drone sector is projected to boom.

Experts estimate that the use of drones might help boost agriculture's GDP by 1-1.5%. Also, experts think drones could revolutionize the Indian agriculture sector by making farming more intelligent and efficient, however, they think and warns that the costs are still unaffordable for small landowners. Despite the fact that farm earnings are modest, approximately 1% of farmers adopt sophisticated technology.

According to data, high-tech has expanded quickly in the industry, a process known as technology diffusion. Automation threatens today's employment in India. However, in agriculture most land units (plots) are too tiny, innovation is still trapped up at the top, limiting long-term productivity increases.