Automated Farming: a future yet to be explored - Auto Farm Simplifying Agriculture

The practice of agriculture was one of the major historical turning points in humanity. Humans were able to work around the environment to produce enough food to sustain the population till now. But the alarming question is for how long ? with the increasing population growth and scarcity of fertile land and water sources, one of the main challenge faced by the farmers is effective optimization of existing resources, and the only solution to that is to tap into the underutilized potential of technology. Consumer preferences, shortage of labor and resources are only some of the mere factors causing the technological revolution in agriculture and farming. Machines and robots have time and again proving to be more reliable and flexible.

One may generally ask, how can technology be utilized instead of traditional practices, but we know that in this world of flying drones, cloud computing and internet of things, nothing is impossible.

For example, using soil sensors will notify the farmer when the soil conditions are out of the ordinary, this real-time information can help the farmer irrigate the soil at the right place at the right time, which can again be done by just pressing a single button sitting in the comfort of ones house to enable the automated irrigation. Drones are deployed to capture infrared images and analyze the health conditions of the crops. This can easily and cost-efficiently determine the problems and help the farmers to take on early actions to improve the yield and quality of yield. Farmers don't have to tear their pockets or break their savings to afford these, there are various machines like tillers and power weeders, these machines are not only capable of doing the work equivalent to that of 10 people working around the clock in just a matter of a couple of minutes but also achieves this task by cutting down tremendous labor expenses.

All this does not require an intensive technological background or knowledge but a mere willingness to change our orthodoxical thought process.

Gone are the days of waiting for labor and praying for rain, with a nice touch of technological change, the bright future of the farmer awaits.