{"id":22882,"date":"2023-01-15T03:43:38","date_gmt":"2023-01-15T03:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2023\/01\/15\/how-drones-could-be-the-future-of-indian-farming\/"},"modified":"2023-01-15T03:43:38","modified_gmt":"2023-01-15T03:43:38","slug":"how-drones-could-be-the-future-of-indian-farming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=22882","title":{"rendered":"How drones could be the future of Indian farming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">India\u2019s agricultural sector has usually not kept pace with new technology, relying largely on traditional methods.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">But start-ups specialising in drone technology are trying to change that &#8211; one farm at a time. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">These companies are encouraging farmers to use drones to monitor the health of crops and spray them with fertiliser and pesticides. The trend comes amid the federal government&#8217;s ambitious plan to make India a hub for drones by 2030.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The BBC\u2019s Arunoday Mukharji travelled to Kancheepuram district in the southern state of Tamil Nadu to understand how farmers are adapting to working with the device on their fields.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Video by Jaltson Akkanath Chummar and Saraskanth TK<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-india-64248510?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] India\u2019s agricultural sector has usually not kept pace with new technology, relying largely on traditional methods. But start-ups specialising in drone technology are trying to change that &#8211; one &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22882"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}