Let’s be honest Mzansi, to achieve optimal yields, precise action is required! Thanks to their latest platform, Aerobotics is making precision farming a whole lot easier by offering farmers peace of mind when it comes to measuring, managing and protecting their yields.
Aerobotics, a company that assists farmers to transform everyday farming operations with technology, is pioneering the use of computer vision for the precision farming of perennial crops.
Over the past seven years, they have collected perennial crop imagery from more than one million acres, with more than 200 growers to identify over 195 million plants.
Now, as an important evolution of their tools for managing nutrition and irrigation, the tech company has launched a highly-anticipated tool for measuring and tracking yields. The mobile app allows producers to capture yield information on the ground, helping to inform recommendations and important management decisions to achieve target yields.
CEO and co-founder at Aerobotics, James Paterson, says, “One of our founding principles at Aerobotics is ‘farmers first’ and we’re excited by the interest customers are showing in our approach to managing yield.”
How it works
The latest yield product uses tree, vine, or bush performance metrics to set up representative sampling locations on the new yield management platform. Then, in the field, growers and their teams are guided to each geo-referenced tree, vine, or bush using the app where yield counts and sizes are recorded digitally.
Thereafter, the data is extrapolated into variety and block-level reports on the platform.
With the latest fruit measurement and tracking tool, teams on the ground spend up to 75% less time collecting 10 times more yield data by being efficiently guided to the most representative locations and leveraging the computer vision-enabled mobile application.
“As more and more growers look to agricultural technology to solve labour and input efficiency challenges, we’re helping our customers do more with less by understanding the impact of their limiting factors,” Paterson says.
“By enabling control of production drivers like irrigation distribution uniformity and nutritional programs, we’re helping growers make data-driven decisions and achieve their target yields.”
The tech company reports customers are already uploading thousands of images a week and usage has increased 15 times over the last two months.
Aerobotics says its technology supports smarter business decisions and ensures a sustainable future for food producers. By making use of industry-leading computer visions for agriculture, they provide a rich array of precision farming insights for growers to ensure optimal yields.
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