ATM News Network: The Indian Farmers Fertilizer Cooperative (IFFCO) is planning to promote the use of nano fertilizers like nano urea and nano DAP across the country using drones and artificial intelligence technology in technical collaboration with agricultural universities and technical institutes.
Dronai, an integrated program, will promote the foliar application of nano-fertilizers and other agrochemicals by combining drones, artificial intelligence and mobile technology.
Farmers will be able to spray efficiently, cost-effectively and safely using this advanced technology through a mobile app. At the time of spraying, artificial intelligence-based software will guide farmers towards smart farming by taking information on crop growth and health.
The main objective of the program is to create a successful drone spraying system to create rural entrepreneurship, run the system in coordination with rural youth/farmers and train them in advanced technology.
All mandatory rules related to drones, their vehicles and safe flight are covered in this process. Coordinated through a farmer-friendly mobile app. Hence, this high-quality, integrated drone technology can be promoted in the agricultural sector. Which will help the farmers to practice hi-tech based smart agriculture.
Dronai will help monitor and guide effective drone technology in agriculture. It will encourage farmers to safely spray nano-fertilizers and agrochemicals over large areas at a low cost.
A special electric triwheeler has been designed for the safe transportation of drones in farmers' fields. An integrated software platform that can run on any mobile device. It will be available to farmers.
Apart from this, the app will help the farmers to book the spraying in advance with a single click. Drone technology will reduce the spraying costs of farmers by 50 percent and save time. The hassles and health problems associated with the manual spraying of agrochemicals will be avoided.