Agriculture Drones Market Development by New Technology in Agriculture 2019 to 2025

The report provides a unique tool for evaluating the Market, highlighting opportunities, and supporting strategic and tactical decision-making. This report recognizes that in this rapidly-evolving and competitive environment, up-to-date marketing information is essential to monitor performance and make critical decisions for growth and profitability. It provides information on trends and developments, and focuses on markets capacities and on the changing structure of the Agriculture Drones.

The Global Agriculture Drones Market is expected to grow from USD 864.4 million in 2016 to USD 4,209.2 million by 2022, at a CAGR of 30.19% during the forecast period.

Top Leading Companies are:  DJI,3DR,Trimble Navigation,DroneDeploy,AgEagle,Agribotix,AutoCopter,Delair-Tech,Eagle UAV Services,HoneyComb,PrecisionHawk,Parrot,Yamaha Motor,AeroVironment

Drones, better known as unmanned aerial vehicle is the aircraft without the human pilot. It has been into existence for long time and are used in various industry including mining, construction, military and agriculture. The agriculture use of drones have recently gained traction after the world started witnessing the tremendous growth in population leading towards the growing demand for food. However, use of such UAV for precision agriculture has been in use since 1990s in some part of Asia-pacific, North America and Europe. These UAV were largely used for spraying pesticides, crops in farm area and are still being used for the same purpose in many parts of the world. The agriculture drone market is therefore the most attractive market that is expected to change the way farming was earlier done.

Contents of the 15 Chapters for This Agriculture Drones Market Study:-

Chapter 1, to describe Agriculture Drones Introduction, product scope, market overview, market opportunities, market risk, market driving force;

Chapter 2, to analyze the top manufacturers of Agriculture Drones, with sales, revenue, and price of Agriculture Drones, in 2018 and 2019;

Chapter 3, to display the competitive situation among the top manufacturers, with sales, revenue and market share in 2018 and 2019;

Chapter 4, to show the global market by regions, with sales, revenue and market share of Agriculture Drones, for each region, from 2015 to 2019;

Chapter 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9, to analyze the key regions, with sales, revenue and market share by key countries in these regions;

Chapter 10 and 11, to show the market by type and application, with sales market share and growth rate by type, application, from 2018 to 2019;

Chapter 12, Agriculture Drones market forecast, by regions, type and application, with sales and revenue, from 2019 to 2025;

Chapter 13, 14 and 15, to describe Agriculture Drones sales channel, distributors, traders, dealers, Research Findings and Conclusion, appendix and data source.

The research includes historic data from 2015 to 2019 and forecasts until 2025 which makes the report an invaluable resource for company executives, marketing executive, sales and product managers, consultants, analysts, and stakeholders looking for key industry data in readily accessible documents with clearly presented tables and graphs.

The report will make detailed analysis mainly on the development environment, Market size, development trends, operation situation and future development trends of Agriculture Drones Market on the basis of current situation of the industry in 2019 so as to make full comprehension and judgment on the competitive situation of Agriculture Drones Market Carrier and assist manufacturers and investment organization to better grasp the development course of Agriculture Drones Market.

NASA tech helps agriculture

TULARE — The air outside smelled of barbecue smoke and exhaust fumes Tuesday during the opening day of the World Ag Expo, but inside the Heritage Complex banquet hall, a look into the future of agriculture was taking place.

In keeping with the expo’s theme, “Harvesting Technology,” NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine visited the International Agri-Center in Tulare and spoke about how technology originally developed for space exploration is now being repurposed and used to improve numerous aspects of agriculture around the world.

Though NASA makes up only a fraction of 1 percent of the federal budget, Bridenstine said the agency is responsible for a lot of the technology we use today, from GPS to weather satellites.

“People don’t realize how important space is to their lives,” he said. “Space has elevated the lives of everybody in the United States of America, and in fact, all across the world.”

Although he’s not from this state, Bridenstine actually spent some time as a Navy pilot in California, including at Naval Air Station Lemoore, so he said he is familiar with the agricultural issues here.

One of the biggest challenges is the competition for water under growing demand, he said. He said it’s becoming more and more difficult to manage this precious and scarce resource in a responsible way.

Currently, Bridenstine said NASA has unique technology it is sharing with the California Department of Water Resources that can be used to measure the Sierra Nevada snowpack and determine how fast it is melting.

He said LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) technology — originally used to map the moon and Mars — is used to map the mountains before and after snow has fallen to get a water equivalent measurement, while spectrometry is used to calculate how fast the water is melting.

The ultimate objective is to make sure no water is being wasted, Bridenstine said.

NASA is also helping specific farms in the state by measuring evapotranspiration, which is when water is transferred from land to the atmosphere when it is evaporated from soil or transpired from plants.

The measurement, also taken with LIDAR, can be used to calculate precise irrigation needs of plants and crops. Bridenstine said this pilot program, in partnership with the University of California Cooperative Extension and other agencies, is only being used in California.

So far, Bridenstine said results have shown 20 percent reduction in water use and 50 percent reduction in nitrate leeching, sustaining crop yields and quality for less water. He said NASA wants to improve the technology and expand to broader regions.

Bridenstine also talked about GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment) data being used to measure the amount of water in soil and in the aquifer. He said the data can be used to predict drought, which can be beneficial to policy makers.

“When there are people that need support we need to get it to them ahead of time, not afterwards,” Bridenstine said.

Even though NASA technology wasn’t originally created to benefit agriculture, it has been able to and Bridenstine said ultimately, the goal is to figure out how to grow food, save lives, feed more people around the world and conserve resources.

“Through partnerships with universities and states we’re actually able to make a difference and we want to continue doing that,” Bridenstine said. “As the NASA Administrator, I’ll be doing that as much as I can, so that every piece of technology we develop ultimately gets fed into its best uses for all of humanity.”

The measurement, also taken with LIDAR, can be used to calculate precise irrigation needs of plants and crops. Bridenstine said this pilot program, in partnership with the University of California Cooperative Extension and other agencies, is only being used in California.

 

So far, Bridenstine said results have shown 20 percent reduction in water use and 50 percent reduction in nitrate leeching, sustaining crop yields and quality for less water. He said NASA wants to improve the technology and expand to broader regions.

Bridenstine also talked about GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment) data being used to measure the amount of water in soil and in the aquifer. He said the data can be used to predict drought, which can be beneficial to policy makers.

“When there are people that need support we need to get it to them ahead of time, not afterwards,” Bridenstine said.

Even though NASA technology wasn’t originally created to benefit agriculture, it has been able to and Bridenstine said ultimately, the goal is to figure out how to grow food, save lives, feed more people around the world and conserve resources.

“Through partnerships with universities and states we’re actually able to make a difference and we want to continue doing that,” Bridenstine said. “As the NASA Administrator, I’ll be doing that as much as I can, so that every piece of technology we develop ultimately gets fed into its best uses for all of humanity.”

Singapore Can Make Up for Urban Agriculture & Aquaculture Technology Hub

Dr Koh Poh Koon, Senior Minister of State for Trade and Industry of Singapore at the Indoor Ag-Con Asia conference held at Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre said, “Singapore has the right ingredients to make it the urban agriculture and aquaculture technology hub in the region and it is in a strong position to catalyze technological and business innovations as it has a climate for innovation, strong talent base and strategic location, which can transform agriculture and aquaculture in the Asia-Pacific region.”

He further added, "In Singapore, arable land is scarce, innovating how we produce food is critical in helping us overcome our farming constraints and better contribute to our food sustainability and traceability efforts. Investments in agri-tech can also help to reduce our reliance on food imports and allow us to enjoy seasonal produce while lowering our carbon footprint."

He also announced, to boost the agri-tech sector, the Enterprise Singapore, through its investment arm Seeds Capital, has appointed seven investment partners under Startup SG Equity, a scheme that encourages private-sector investment for start-ups.

Seeds Capital aims to spur the growth of emerging and strategic sectors such as agri-tech, by stimulating investment in innovative local start-ups.

Under this partnership, more than $90 million worth of investments will go into early-stage tech start-ups with food and agri-tech solutions.

The appointed partners are AgFunder, Hatch, ID Capital, Openspace, The Yield Lab, Trendlines and VisVires New Protein.

Through Seeds Capital, the partners will assist early-stage start-ups, like introducing new business partners and providing support to enter new markets. Seeds Capital will also provide co-funding of up to $4 million per deep tech start-up under Startup SG Equity.

Dr Koh said, "We are building a vibrant agri-tech start-up environment to uncover more talent, anchor experts, partners, investors and accelerators into our ecosystem, and expand the pool of knowledge and resources.”

"We are developing relevant research capabilities in areas like seed formulation and fish nutrition, advanced biotech-based protein production and food safety science. We are also establishing a high-tech physical cluster in Kranji to support operations in urban agriculture and aquaculture."

Protenga, one of the Singapore agri-tech companies present at the conference is an insect farming company that produces animal feed. It has incorporated data sensors into its farms to help determine the right feeding frequency and amount, increasing the quality and volume of produce.

Second company, VertiVegies, is an indoor vertical farming firm. It displayed its modular planting system that uses technology to ensure efficient plant growth, while taking up minimal space and giving Singapore the potential to achieve food

Green New Deal Needs To Include Agriculture Technology

When policymakers talk about “green jobs,” they tend to default to examples in solar power, wind and other sources of renewable energy—or perhaps manufacturing and supply chain management. They’re less likely to talk about agriculture.

That’s a mistake. The way we eat and produce food is a significant contributor to climate change. In fact, agriculture is estimated to contribute between 13% and 24% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Any “Green New Deal” needs to not only enable innovation around sustainable agriculture, but also encourage farmers to adopt new, environmentally friendly technologies.

American agriculture is starting to enter the digital age. For years, agriculture lagged behind as one of the least-digitized of any major industry in America. That’s starting to change. More than half of farmers now use at least one “precision agriculture” tool that harnesses data to improve efficiency on the farm. Investors are starting to talk about precision agriculture as the next big thing in IoT, and the market is expected to more than double from to $7.8 billion by 2022.

I spoke with Village Capital's Allie Burns about this potential. For example, data-driven tools can dramatically reduce the use of toxic pesticides by tracking insect populations on a farm (see DTN’s recent acquisition of Spensa Technologies), or help farmers monitor water and energy use through sensors and cloud technology (see the example of Wexus Technologies). More generally, they can help farmers grow more food with fewer resources.

This is where the Green New Deal comes in. Burns pointed me to a recent Village Capital and QBE Foundation report that discussed that although farmers have strong incentives to adopt these sustainable agricultural technologies, many cannot afford them, particularly in light of the economic downturn that farmers currently face. With net farm incomes down 50% since 2013, many farmers simply do not have the capital to invest in these cost-saving, environmentally friendly solutions.

In order to speed up the adaption of these energy saving technologies, Congress should create a fund that covers a portion of the cost. A similar program for electronic medical records incentives in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (aka the stimulus) has been very successful in driving the adoption of new technologies that have broadly shared societal benefits.

This program incentivized hospitals to digitize their records with the goal of increasing healthcare efficiency and reducing costs and medical errors. Prior to Congress's action here, most healthcare records were still recorded on paper. By 2016, 96% of hospitals had a federally certified electronic medical record system. This program had three parts. It paid a significant portion of the transition cost to first-movers. It then gradually phased out the financial incentive. Finally, it reduced Medicare reimbursement rates in 2016 for those that did not use electronic medical records. This program used the classic carrot-and-stick technique to inducing change.

It’s critical, however, that this Green New Deal program is designed in a way that ensures that its benefits are broadly shared. In order to make sure that that American taxpayers are not subsidizing offshore jobs, the program should include a requirement for products to be manufactured domestically to qualify. And to make sure that program helps entrepreneurs, Congress should set a cap on the size of a company that can receive this subsidy. Rather than providing a subsidy to John Deere, we want to grow the next generation of John Deeres. Limiting this program to American entrepreneurs fosters the innovation and competition that drives broad-based economic growth.

There’s real opportunity for the Green New Deal to push American agriculture in a more sustainable direction. As Village Capital’s Allie Burns said, “Oftentimes, ag innovation doesn’t make it into the mainstream conversation about climate change.” By creating an incentive for energy efficient agricultural technologies, we can provide an incentive for farmers to support entrepreneurs and American workers while preserving our environment.

 

Agriculture in India requires a lot of technology, says Niti Aayog CEO

CHENNAI : The contentious issue of what we can do to help our farmers better their lot, found a lot of answers during a discussion on What we need to do to make India Incredible? at TNIE’S ThinkEdu Conclave 2019. The first panel of the day had NITI Aayog’s Amitabh Kant in conversation with PMK MP and former Union minister, Dr Anbumani Ramadoss trading ideas.

Perhaps the most candid and hard hitting one came from Amitabh Kant, who said, “My belief is that agriculture requires a lot of technology in India - the first green revolution was a result of that. Indian needs cold storages, warehousing and scrapping of the APMC Act to allow markets to work. (Currently) Markets don’t work,” responding to a question from a delegate on why India lags behind in produce per hectare when compared to a country like Israel.

Kant took it a notch higher and upped the honesty quotient, when he said, “It’s not about education. There has to be political will by politicians like Mr Ramadoss and many more to allow markets to function so that producers get the right price. We have constrained our farmers too much by too many controls and that needs to be stopped,” he said.

Ramadoss, who had done a lot of grassroot work with the farmers in his constituency, said that if the right price was paid for the farmer’s produce, he wouldn’t need any sops. “We need to respect farmers and give them their due. Somewhere the MSP has gone wrong, there is a huge gap between the produce and the price set by the government. He just needs the right price, not sops,” he said.

“India produces the second highest amount of milk in the world, but less than 1 per cent is exported,” he said, pointing out the lack of proper storage facilities.Pointing out that Tamil Nadu’s tag of ‘most urbanised State in the country’ is because of high migration to the cities in search of jobs, Anbumani said that he would not consider it a sign of development. “Reverse migration is a sign of development for me,” he said, claiming that it would be possible only if the government makes agriculture a viable profession.

The Myth of ‘Israeli Technology’ And Its Impact on Indian Agriculture

“We demand that the Karnataka state government immediately stop its cooperation with Israel and reallocate the funds to sustainable agriculture projects that reflect the demands and needs expressed by farmers movements. We urge individuals and organizations to join us in building a joint struggle for justice from Palestine to India.”

In his second budget as the Chief Minister of Karnataka, H D Kumaraswamy allocated Rs 145 crores to Israeli model farming scheme. This follows from the Rs 300 crore allocated last year to the same scheme. What this ‘scheme’ entails apart from micro irrigation technologies such as drip irrigation is still to be seen. Drip irrigation per se is an elementary technology that farmers have been using for centuries in India. Yet Kumaraswamy invokes his commitment to Israeli technology, which came about since he visited Israel last year before being elected. Since then, the state agriculture and horticulture minister as well as secretary of state agriculture department have too visited Israel to learn their agriculture technology.

For all of these allocations and official trips, let us have a close look at what really the so-called Israeli technology is, what it is doing in Karnataka and what has its track record been in the neighbouring state of Andhra Pradesh as well as Palestine.

Presently, there is a large-scale project of drip irrigation, the Ramthal Marol project, going on in Bagalkot district of Karnataka. This project is being implemented by Krishna Bhagya Jala Nigam Limited with the assistance of Israeli agro-business firm, Netafim.

Two decades before Karnataka, it was the state of Andhra Pradesh that was hailing Israeli technology in agriculture. The Kuppam project of 1998 sought to demonstrate the Israeli model using drip irrigation for local farmers, much like the ongoing Bagalkot project. In Kuppam too, Israeli agro-business companies such as Netafim were involved. An independent study by Deccan Development society heavily criticised this model for being not only unsustainable but also detrimental for the local village economy, and several other experts further condemned this model as “technically unsound, low in agricultural sustainability, environmentally destructive and economically unviable. […]Rights of the farmers are totally suppressed.”

Such outcomes are unsurprising, considering that Israel’s agriculture and its agro-business firms such as Netafim are not developed to support small farming communities but to colonize land taken by force from the Palestinian farmers, who have been expelled from their farms at gunpoint. The model entrenches illegal occupation and apartheid against Palestinians people that still remained on their lands. Even for Jewish Israelis, this agro model over time has become so investment intensive that between 1981-95 almost 50% of the farms closed down, many after defaulting on loan repayment. And these empirical facts comes from Alon Tal, who is on the International board of Jewish National Fund, an agent of Israel’s settler-colonialism, and has been awarded by Monsanto.

The other major project with Israel is the Centres of Excellence for horticulture, running in Kolar, for mangoes, Bagalkot for pomegranate and Belgaum for vegetables. In a recent interview, an Israeli expert at the Kolar Centre of Excellence was demonstrating canopy technique for mango trees. This technique is neither new, nor unique to Israel- a regular Doordarshan Krishi Darshan programme talks about it in its horticulture episodes. Without any discernible benefits, Israeli model farming has a massive allocation in Karnataka’s budget. Compare that with the allocation of Rs 10,000 per hectare to minor millet producers. The average land holding in the state is 1.19 hectares for a household of 4.5 people.

With no accruing benefits, it is hard to not suspect that the push towards Israeli agricultural technology, along with the many visits to Israel by state functionaries to promote this technology (at the cost of state exchequer) is more of a diplomatic move. In the above-mentioned interview, the journalist asks whether Israeli Centres of Excellence would remedy the crisis of farmer suicides. The Israeli expert and Karnataka state horticulture official seem to suggest it will. Such trivialization is difficult to believe, but it seems this is Karnataka government’s solution to this grave issue. The welfare of Indian farmers, already reeling under a decades long agrarian crisis, is being sacrificed at the altar of Indo-Israel diplomatic relations.

These diplomatic relations are those with a regime of apartheid. In its 2004 advisory opinion on the Apartheid Wall, the International Court of Justice saw the wall as part of Israeli settlement enterprise which violates Palestinian human rights and also puts the obligation upon third states and organizations the responsibility to not aid and assist the this “situation created by the route taken by this wall”. India is playing with a political disaster by dealing with Israel’s regime settler-colonialism, illegal occupation and apartheid, and companies that sustain it.

Several of them, including Netafim, operate in illegal Israeli settlements which has also led to United Nations’ Human Rights Commission sending a warning letter to the latter. Operating in illegal Israeli settlements is violation of the 4th Geneva Convention and constitutes a war crime. These settlements are built on stolen lands and resource theft. Palestinians in occupied territories live under a regime of water apartheid. Farmers are denied access to their own farms and at times even shot for the same. Exploitation of natural resources of Palestinians and deploying it for furthering Israeli settlements in occupied territories is central to Israeli colonialism, and companies like Netafim are the facilitators of this process of dispossession and colonialism.

By implementing Israeli technology and giving space to companies such as Netafim, India is providing legitimacy to Israel’s violation of international law and Palestinian human rights. Further, this is being done at the cost of debt and crisis ridden Indian farmers who need sustainable technology and livelihood guarantees, not an unsustainable and resource consumption-based model which has so far shown no positive outcomes. Karnataka Rajya Rayatu Sangha has urged the state government to not introduce Israeli agriculture as it is not suitable and would adversely affecttheir agriculture.

All India Kisan Sabha endorsed the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement,resolvingto denounce and document any cases of Israeli corporate takeover in the Indian agro-sector and raising awareness among Indian farmers to prevent Israel and its corporations from reaping profits in India that finance military occupation and apartheid in Palestine. It would bode well for the Karnataka state government to listen to the voices from the ground: stop playing into the myth that is Israeli agricultural technology and becoming a PR tool for Israel at the cost of struggling farmers. We demand that the Karnataka state government immediately stop its cooperation with Israel and reallocate the funds to sustainable agriculture projects that reflect the demands and needs expressed by farmers movements. We urge individuals and organisations to join us in building a joint struggle for justice from Palestine to India..