The world bank estimates that 50 percent more food will be needed by 2050 to sustain a growing global population. As a result, global agriculture is now facing a huge labor shortage. Through the use of robotics, many technology companies are trying to change traditional agricultural practices from planting, fertilizing, spraying, soil loosening, weeding, and harvesting, especially in areas that used to require a lot of labor. Apple picking robot: this robot USES machine vision technology to accurately identify ripe apples on the tree and sucks them down from the tree with a mechanical front like a vacuum cleaner. This way not only can pick the apples completely but also will not cause any damage to the apple trees.
The robot can also harvest apples at night and work 24 hours a week, greatly improving efficiency. Fruit farmers can view fruit growth in real time through image tools, and remotely operate the robot to pick fruit. The robot can pick apples at an average speed of 1 per second.
Besides apple picking robot and weeding robot in the field: the field weeding robot powered by solar energy, the work time can be up to 12 hours a day, through the machine recognition technology, can accurately identify weeds, through the mechanical arm to herbicide spraying of weeds, the herbicide use reduces 20 times than traditional way, greatly save the cost of agriculture, to ensure the pollution-free fruits and vegetables. At the same time, the robot weighs only 130 kilograms, far less than traditional agricultural machinery, minimizing mechanical damage to the soil.
Agricultural Plant Protection Drone
Eppo unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), also known as unmanned aerial vehicles, it is used for agriculture, forestry and plant protection work of the unmanned aircraft, the type of unmanned aircraft by the flying platform (fixed wing and helicopters, multi-axis vehicle), navigation, flight control, spraying mechanism of three parts, through the ground remote control or navigation flight control, spraying to implement, can be sprayed, seeds, powder, etc. Small unmanned helicopter has low operation height, less drift, hovering, takeoff and landing airport, without special rotor of downdraft has helped increase the penetrability of fog flow on crops, control effect is high, long distance remote control operation, the personnel to avoid the risk of exposure to pesticides spraying, spraying to improve the security, and many other advantages. In addition, electric unmanned helicopter spraying technology can save at least 50% of pesticide use and 90% of water consumption by using spray spraying, which will greatly reduce resource cost. Compared with oil moving, electric UAV is small in overall size, light in weight, with lower depreciation rate, low labor cost per unit operation and easy maintenance.
Experts estimate that by 2020, demand for UAVs will have skyrocketed, thanks to the world's advantage in plant protection.
Plant Factories
Have you ever seen a greenhouse? I'm sure most people have but have you ever seen a greenhouse with 50 or 60 stories?
Plant factory is a new indoor planting method, which is to solve resources and make full use of space. It adopts the soilless solution cultivation method, which can convert sewage into electricity, greatly reduce energy cost and provide more food.
Plants in plant factories grow almost unrestrained by natural conditions, and the growth cycle is shortened. With the use of LED grows lights, lettuce, Chinese cabbage, etc. can be harvested in about 20 days, while it takes from one month to 40 days if cultivated on the open ground.
Plant factory is the advanced stage of modern facility agriculture development, are a kind of high investment, high technology, and equipment of the production system, biological technology, engineering, and systems management at an organic whole, make the agricultural production out from the bondage of natural ecology. Anniversary of sex as planned plant products production factory farming system is in the process of agricultural industrialization absorbing achievements of application of high and new technology one of the most dynamic and potential field, represents the development direction of agriculture in the future.
Space Agriculture
Growing vegetables in the space station, this technology has been achieved.
In 1997, Russia successfully planted "moon lettuce", "cosmic carrot" and "outer space tomato" in the simulated space vegetable hydroponic experiment. In the same year, the Russian Academy of agricultural sciences and the national space agency successfully planted "space wheat" in the space greenhouse on the Mir space station.
In December 2017, foreign media reported that the United Arab Emirates recently announced its plans to plant palm trees and strawberries on Mars and announced that it expects to send a space monitor to Mars by 2020.
Space Agriculture is a new agricultural field after earth Agriculture and Marine Agriculture, which is based on Space technology and develops and utilizes Space environmental resources. These include the use of satellites or high-altitude balloons to carry crop seeds, microbial strains, insects and other samples, and induce chromosomal aberrations under special conditions such as space radiation, high vacuum, and microgravity, which will lead to the variation of biological genetic traits, so as to quickly and effectively select new varieties for space mutagenesis breeding. Using satellites and space stations to grow to produce directly in the space environment, it is used to solve the food source of space personnel, and even sell back to the ground to make up for the shortage.
Agricultural Internet of Things
In today's agricultural science and technology, agricultural iot technology is undoubtedly an important application of science and technology.
It will through a large number of sensor nodes constitute a monitoring network, through a variety of sensors to collect information, to help farmers find problems in time, and accurately determine the position of the problem, so that farming will gradually from human-centered, depends on the production model of isolated mechanical steering mode of production, for the center with information and software to use various kinds of automatic and intelligent production equipment, remote control.
Agriculture is the foundation of a country's development, and it is also related to the survival of everyone. I believe these five agricultural black technologies will bring us unexpected surprises.
With the development of science and technology. SinJia LED Grow Lights also hopes to contribute its own strength to the development of agriculture through high-quality advantages, so that more agricultural practitioners can get greater returns through LED Grow Lamps.
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