Automation in agricultural equipment and technology

Automation in agricultural equipment and technology

 Agriculture is the oldest industry in the world. In past people get together and hunting, fishing, farming etc. The way of agriculture is change time to time but it continuously provides foods for ever growing human population. By comparing overall growth of the world population the amount of agricultural workers is steadily decreasing. To be the solution of this problem and the current trends of the technology the agricultural industry have being automated.

For the new equipment and technologies adapted to the agricultural industry. So that it increases the productivity by increasing reliability and efficiency etc. And also farmers aspire to produce high quality crops in large quantities with the small amount of workers. Therefore, the new companies put their high investment to farmers and younger generation again involve in the agricultural industry.

Automation and robotics are most trending agricultural technologies. Most technology and innovation companies are working on develop drones, autonomous tractors, automatic watering, robotic harvesters and seeding robots etc. And also there are new technologies adapted to the agricultural industry like greenhouse technology, produce hybrid seeds and plants, gene mutating for get high volume of harvest and high quality etc. When go through the some of the equipment, the drones are developed to identify weather conditions and the requirements of the plants. Robotic harvesters used to harvest and also it can identify whether the crop is ready to harvest. The automated watering systems are water the plants and it can identify the soil moisture and give required volume of water for each plant. Likewise, the agriculture industry become smart by the automation.

There are more benefits of automation in agricultural industry. The most important thing is reduction of cost of production. When doing things in manually, farmers need to pay for employees to get their work. This cost is also reducing in automation. By automation, the entire production process is computerized and done by automatically. So this reduce the human effort and the cost of production. Therefore, farmers can increase productivity and efficiency by automated equipment and technologies.
All the new adaption there are pros and also cons. In here it is same as any other things. The main problem of automation is the owner or farmer want high investment for automate the system. The traditional farmers have not this type of income for invest, so they cannot engage with these new trends and their production quantity and quality become lesser than automated farmers. So they face threat to their jobs. And the other thing is when automation the workforce is reduce and the workers want to find the new jobs. The workers become experts in one work and they have no idea about other workers’ duties. They become stress when doing same thing in the period of time. These are some of the problems in automation in agricultural industry.

For the improvement of automation of agricultural industry, the government can involve in policy making for give the whole benefits to the farmers and workers. They can give loans to small and middle level farmers to improve their business and can give relief for high cost equipment. Like that there are more solutions to the problems faced n automation and also improvement of automation in agriculture.

However, in conclusion the automation is the most benefited solution for the food requirement of the world. By automation in agricultural equipment and technologies it can sustainably produce products and it reach consumers to fresh, faster, high quality and also it decreases the use of water, fertilizer and pesticides unnecessarily. So these smart systems are valuable for producers, consumers, farmers and whole world. So we can say that this is a more useful and sustainable way for these days in the world.