What a Little Four-Armed Friend Can Do for Your Orchard:Experiences flying low-cost drones over pecans in Argentina

摘要

The pecan sector in Argentina is growing fast. However, this rapid growth of the industry (mainly due to an increase in planted area) is not yet fully accompanied by the massive adoption of new technologies, in part because many Argentine farmers arenot yet completely sure about the applications of, for example, robotic devices such as drones in the orchards or about how using them may lead to improve nut yield. In fact, this sentimentis shared amongst smaller pecan growers around the world; who may be wary of adopting new technology in their management plans.