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Agricultural Drones: The New Trend

October 6, 2020 by NorthZen Media Digital Marketing Services 3 Comments

In the last decade, the market for drones has increased and reached greater heights. Odds are, you know somebody who has bought one or gotten one as a gift. While they are popular for aerial photography and enjoyable to fly around indiscriminately, they have greater practical use beyond just being a hobby.

During the 1800s, UAVs or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles were utilized for military purposes as balloon bombers or pilotless aircraft. Today, a well-known type of UAV is the drone, a small remotely-controlled small chopper that is being applied to a wide array of businesses from land, development, and agriculture. In the current business set up, an aging populace implies that the quantity of farmers is lessening. As younger generations take over from their seniors, new advancements (such as drones) are turning into a focal piece of agribusiness.

The most common notion of drones in agricultural use is that it is just for chemical spraying. However, drones are also being used for crop growth and sculpting services using its multi-spectrum camera.

This camera can show what parts of the yields are developing admirably and which aren’t — utilizing a simple map.

Drones are getting progressively significant in agriculture and in the present day, an increasing number of farm owners are thinking about buying one.

The agricultural business is now welcoming drone technology and using this advanced tool to transform modern farming. Using this technology in agriculture, agribusinesses meet the challenging and growing demands of the future. Moreover, more advanced drones increase the efficiency of the farming process — from crop monitoring, planting, livestock management, irrigation mapping, crop spraying, and more.

Filed Under: Agricultural Technology Tagged With: Agricultural Drones

Realistic Benefits of Using Pesticides and Herbicides

October 6, 2020 by NorthZen Media Digital Marketing Services Leave a Comment

Produce More Harvest with Lesser Land

If we were in the 1800s, where the world population was just 1 billion, and there’s more land for a single person than there is today, then there would be no need to produce more from the available land. But with the steadily increasing growth rate of the world population, there’s a call to produce more harvest from the only available land. This is where pesticides become beneficial.

Lessen the Chances of Loss and Ensuring Bountiful Harvest

When it comes to farming or any type of business, the only unrecoverable cost is time. Time is very essential that if a good season is lost because of pests, or even if not maximized because of area limitation, then this wouldn’t be profitable to the farmers.

Make Vegetables and Fruits Affordable

Have you ever wondered why the cost of vegetables and fruits in the market hasn’t surged? This is because of the massive and regular harvest done using scientifically-proven pesticides. There’s also less effort to maintain a farm making it sustainable over time.

Reduce Waterborne and Insect-Transmitted Diseases

Among the examples of these diseases would be malaria, Lyme disease, and West Nile virus. By using pesticides, farmers are able to prevent disease outbreaks through the control of rodent and insect populations, thus contributing to the protection of human health.

Macro-Economic Advantages

Just like the Philippines, many farmers and farm owners are producing more and adding to the nation’s income and economy by delivering export-quality vegetables and fruits. With the use of tested-safe and government-approved pesticides, developing and agricultural countries like the Philippines are able to uplift the status of a nation and its global contribution to other countries.

Filed Under: Tropical Farming Tagged With: Herbicides, Pesticides

5 Most Extensively Grown Crops in the Philippines

October 4, 2020 by NorthZen Media Digital Marketing Services Leave a Comment

The Philippines, which is a tropical country, is home to a rich line of crops that grow and are harvested year-round. In this article, we will look into the five most extensively grown crops in the country.

Rice (Palay)

Rice, the Filipino’s favorite staple crop, accounts for around 20% of the GVA (Gross Value Added) of the country’s agriculture. The cultivation of this crop is the primary income source of 2.5 million households — 2.1 million of which are farmers, 110,000 workers for post-farm activities, and 320,000 for ancillary activities.

Rice production in the country continually grows year after year. Among the provinces, Nueva Ecija (Region III) ranks first in producing and harvesting rice. This is followed by Isabela (Region II), and Iloilo, Pangasinan, and Cagayan.

Sugarcane

The sugarcane industry in the country accounts for no less than a Php 70 billion chunk of the Philippine economy annually. Altogether, sugarcane can be seen in the 422,500 hectares of Philippine soil, supporting the livelihood of around 62,000 farmers.

Coconut

The Philippines is the second largest coconut producer in the world, next to Indonesia.

Interestingly, the Philippines is known for its local version of an apple pie that is not made from apple but made from coconuts and condensed milk. The inspiration for this delicacy popularly known as “Buko Pie” was invented by Soledad Pahud, an OFW, who discovered and reimagined apple pie while working as a maid in the United States. When she returned home to the Philippines, buko pie was born.

In 2013, after Typhoon Haiyan devastated the Philippines’ eastern isles, around 44 million trees were destroyed, displacing around 1 million coconut farmers and workers.

Banana

The Philippines is identified as one of the top five countries exporting bananas, with some 2.85 million metric tons exported in 2017.

In 2018, the country produced some 9.36 million metric tons of bananas with the Cavendish variety accounting for about 52% of the total banana production.

Corn

Corn is also one of the most valued crops in the Philippines. It ranks second to rice in the utilization of agricultural resources. It is used not only for human consumption but also for animal feeds and industrial uses. Hence, it is a vital crop in the development of livestock and manufacturing industries.

Filed Under: Tropical Farming Tagged With: Tropical Crops

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