Sarala Publication House

PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION

This book is intended to be used by students, researchers and planners in the field of agriculture and allied sciences. The modern technology of drone systems will bring a revolution in the field of agriculture by bringing timeliness of operation at lower cost and higher efficiency. The farmers can enhance their profit by reducing the crop losses due to emergence of pests and insects in the standing crops. Crop scouting and monitoring is the wings of precision agriculture, which will enable farmers for better control of their crops in the near future. They can monitor their crops in near real time basis with the application of modern technology such as drone, farm robots, optical and microwave remote sensing etc.  The modern technologies may also bring educated youth to farming sector ensuring sound profit and better respect.

Kishore Chandra Swain

Hemantha Jayasuriya