Madrid, Spain, October 25, 2017.- Modern agriculture requires the use of more technology to tackle the agro-food challenges of the third millennium.
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), all countries that inhabit the globe must produce at least 75 percent of the food they eat. This is not only a suggestion from the international body, experts say in the world field, is an urgent need if you do not want to unleash a world famine.
At present, scientists say, in the world around one billion people already suffer the ravages of hunger.
For this reason researchers affiliated with Agroptima, a Spanish portal that displays scientific information related to agricultural production, presents five indispensable technological tools that could help produce the food that developing and world countries require.
- She is. With this technology it is possible to detect the ideal time to harvest without damaging the crop and without having to rely solely on the view of the producer or his workers.
The new technique works by means of a laser light that interacts with any medium and creates a pattern that can be compared to a reference standard to know the respiration rate and the ethylene production of the fruit.
Two. The sensors. Thanks to this invention can be known the state of the crop, sitting comfortably at home or elsewhere. It is achieved by multiple sensors that are installed in the field with which you can obtain information on soil temperature, humidity, water status of the crop, amount of fertilizer to apply etc.
Three. Mobile applications (APP). They have been primarily useful in pest and disease prevention and in increasing irrigation efficiency.
Four, drones or UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicle). The information that can be collected with these devices has different scopes: state of vigor of the crop, water situation to detect irrigation deficiencies, reveal possible pests that are affecting a certain area of the farm, etc … There are also drones suitable for phytosanitary treatments from the air.
And five. Robotics. Robots already have their space in agriculture and there are various projects in development with which they gain ground. They are now used in tomato production. And in a short time they will be composed by different sensors that will collect data of yield, vegetative growth, water state of the crop and composition of the same.
The company Agroptima, is composed of a team of specialists in various fields whose objective is to build the simplest and most powerful application that allows farmers and agricultural factories to manage efficiently, quickly and modernly their farms and crops.