Awesome! African Farmers Start Drones to Increase Crops

African countries spend a lot of money to import food. Each year, they can spend US $ 35 billion (Rp475.57 trillion) to supply food to their country.
Startup companies have solutions to suppress food imports. They invited the farmers to use drone aircraft.
Reported by CNN Money, Wednesday, February 21, 2018, 60 percent of African people live in rural areas. They depend on agriculture. The African Development Bank has invested US $ 24 billion (Rp326.1 trillion) over more than 10 years to begin the transformation.
Encouraging productivity and improving agricultural access with modern tools and information management is essential.
Here comes a drone for agriculture called Aerobotics.
This drone aircraft was made by James Paterson, the newly pioneered company to fix some problems with artificial intelligence (AI).
The company, founded by Benji Meltzer and friends in Cape Town, South Africa, carries on a mission to help farmers improve agricultural output and reduce costs. Aerobotics promised agricultural production to increase 10 percent.
The company uses computers to create imagery from satellites, aircrafts, and cell phones as well as providing predictions of "plant health" information. This drone aircraft takes photographs of the field and sends it to a computer system.
"The entire ecosystem goes into centralized Aeroview to get the picture," Meltzer said.
Meltzer said satellite footage aims to highlight long-term trends and unmanned aircraft, flown at certain points during this season to get more detailed information. This aeroview will analyze the data received and highlight areas that perform poorly so that farmers can investigate. It can also diagnose problems caused by disease, pests, and lack of water.
Meltzer says Aerobotics not only operates in Africa, but also the United States and Britain. With nearly 200 clients worldwide, they plan to expand their commercial and software development teams quickly. That way, Aeorbotics can help increase agricultural production more. [Source: dream.co.id

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