Adoption of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (Drones) in Agriculture

Contrary to the widely-held belief that the development of drones for agricultural production is a new innovation, the evidence of the first use of aerial vehicles dates back to 1921. The drone is a great innovation used in precision agriculture. The use of drones in...

Kenya: Drones Deployed to Fight Locusts in Samburu as Farms Ravaged

Disaster response teams in Samburu have started using drones equipped with mapping sensors to spray desert locusts that are ravaging crops and pasturelands in the region. Millions of the voracious insects have swept across East Africa in what the United Nations Food...