UPDATE: ICT in Agriculture

 

Are we at the edge of a second agricultural revolution? For more info: follow this link: ICT in Agriculture.

Drone technology is being used for crop insurance? For more info:Drones technology use for crop insurance

Can Drones save your crops from a fungal problem? For more info: Drones for agriculture 

 

Drones for agriculture

Drone technology is being used for crop insurance. Crop insurance pay-outs could be sped up with the help of drone technology, preventing financial hardship and potentially helping more small-scale farmers get insured. 

Thousands of farmers are killing themselves in India every year. They make this ultimate sacrifice not just because the weather gods have been brutal. It is also because they have been failed by crop insurance, their primary protection from climatic flippancy.

 

Can Drones save your crops from a fungal problem. The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or drones for management of crops, livestock, fisheries, forests and other natural resource-based activities represents a new technological frontier and opens up a range of exciting opportunities. The latest issue of ICT Update, a bi-monthly magazine published by the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU (CTA) is dedicated to the use of this technology and associated systems in different parts of the world. 

 This issue - available online and in print format in both English and French has been published in collaboration with Esri. It includes 12 articles, one interview and a section featuring selected online resources on the topic.  Articles range from the use of UAVs to design an irrigation scheme in Nigeria, to feeding a locust monitoring scheme, from documenting illegal land occupancy in Panama to assisting smallholder farmers in monitoring their crops in Eastern Africa, and more.

 You can order a print or download a PDF version of this issue via this link: http://bit.ly/24mvNLQ

Selected articles are featured on the magazine portal: http://ictupdate.cta.int where you can subscribe to the magazine at no cost. 

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ICT in Agriculture.

 We increasingly hear about innovation taking place in Africa and other countries in the South.

ICTs appears to be in the driving seat. Do these testimonies reflect localised initiatives or are there any significant trends at national and continental level?

Are we at the edge of a second agricultural revolution?

Thanks to Kellie Koo and Giacomo Rambaldi of the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Co-operation ACP-EU (CTA)

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