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Mechanisation has go a reliable alternate erstwhile acute labour shortage is plaguing the workplace sector.
Looking beyond the epoch of tractors, tillers and harvesters, the next-generation devices specified arsenic robots, drones and workplace sprayers are present disposable to farmers who are acceptable to follow modern technology.
During the caller Republic Day parade successful Tirupati, the Agriculture department’s tableau displayed a robotic sprayer that diffuses pesticides. Apart from making casual the process of administering pesticides successful the field, the robot besides helps humans debar nonstop vulnerability to the pesticide — chemic oregon otherwise. Named arsenic ‘Farm Robo’, the mobile sprayer tin easy determination done the mango, plantain, lime, pomegranate and lipid thenar trees successful an orchard.
Also, it tin determination nether creepers and done gardens increasing vegetables, and successful the midst of cultivation crops planted successful a consecutive enactment specified arsenic sugarcane, cotton, pulses, baccy and castor, without causing immoderate damage. By automating the process of fixing the dosage arsenic per the prescribed levels, a immense agelong of spraying successful a plot tin beryllium covered successful a abbreviated time.
“We tin prevention a batch of clip and quality effort with this robot, if farmers shed their inhibitions and travel guardant to usage the technology”, says an ICAR grant winning husbandman of Tirupati district, G. Venkatarama Raju. Interestingly, it was Mr. Raju, a warfare veteran-turned-progressive farmer, who drew astir attraction with the show of the workplace robot astatine the R-Day parade.
Planning to make consciousness among the section ryots successful earthy farming, helium has besides opened an bureau successful Railway Kodur town, created the indispensable grooming infrastructure, kept drones, workplace robots, mini tractors etc., connected display. Apart from grooming and workplace equipment, Mr. Venkatarama Raju besides offers seeds/seedlings, ‘Jeevamrutam’ and ‘Panchagavya’ products to those funny successful earthy farming and adjacent offers buyback installation to infuse confidence.
Mr. Raju urged District Collector S. Venkateswar to get Tirupati territory included successful the Government of India’s FARM (Financing Agrochemical Reduction and Management) project, which targets the modulation of 1 cardinal farmers towards safer, resilient and sustainable agriculture.
“Railway Kodur, by virtuousness of its determination nether Seshachalam hills, the beingness of a fig of streams, affluent ungraded and the centuries-old vulnerability of farmers to horticultural crops, is astir suited for this project,” helium opines.
