I didn't know you have worked on precision agriculture!
I discussed a lot of ideas on this with my friends some years back, but I felt handicapped without having enough expertise in coding.
I had tried learning coding multiple times but I only scaled up till being okayish 😀
Some months back though I started using google Collab or chatgpt for it, and it feels somebody gave me wiiings 😍
My thought is Agriculture is the oldest profession and ironically it is the least advanced one.
People have been implementing Industry 4.0 and now talking about Industry 5.0 and agriculture in india specifically is still at Industry 1.0 standards. Or even behind.
I have a friend who did masters from NIT Trichy, and now has started his own farm. Whenever I discuss with him the possibilities of things that could be incorporated from industry, and technology in agri seems endless.
Like once I suggested him how the concept of 'Design of Experients'
Which we use in experiment labs,can help him narrow down the right set of parameters/ variable in least number of iterations and find the best method to grow dragon fruit from stem via grafting.
Someday In near future I dream to own a farm and I will definitely get in touch with you for ideas 😊
Hey Sunil, yes, haha, I did work on precision agriculture. Specifically, I worked on parallelizing code through GPUs so that apple detection in apple orchards becomes real-time. Thus, the crop yield becomes automated through a camera attached to a drone, which needs to hover through the orchard. Earlier, this had to be done through manual labor, where a person had to walk through the orchard and count the apples. I ended up publishing a research paper on this, too! Check this out: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0168169919303436
I don't think, though, if I have enough knowledge of grafting-related technologies, but still I would love to have a "constructive, knowledgeable" chat! :) Can't ever say no to that!
The beauty of discussing of agriculture is it doesn't need a lot to catch up.
A lot of plant behaviour can be understood by other living organisms behaviour or even humans behaviour.
Like I will give you an example. When you uproot a plant and plant it in different location. It is said to experience a shock and chances are it won't survive. Due to change in environment and soil. So whenever you uproot try to keep some original soil intact with the plant and plant it as it is in new location.
Is it not applicable to human behaviour also? 😀
Yesterday I was talking to same friend. We were discussing on how keeping proper organised record of accounts can help in making investment based decisions.( Which in agriculture in india is very rare. People just sum up total expenditure and total earnings) we were discussing on how much budget should be kept aside to subscribe for journals and agri magazines.
And also on how agri business could be more profitable by integrating it with fisheries, cattles, hospitality.
Within 5 years the situation will be very grave for people due to monoculture and no water recycling.
I didn't know you have worked on precision agriculture!
I discussed a lot of ideas on this with my friends some years back, but I felt handicapped without having enough expertise in coding.
I had tried learning coding multiple times but I only scaled up till being okayish 😀
Some months back though I started using google Collab or chatgpt for it, and it feels somebody gave me wiiings 😍
My thought is Agriculture is the oldest profession and ironically it is the least advanced one.
People have been implementing Industry 4.0 and now talking about Industry 5.0 and agriculture in india specifically is still at Industry 1.0 standards. Or even behind.
I have a friend who did masters from NIT Trichy, and now has started his own farm. Whenever I discuss with him the possibilities of things that could be incorporated from industry, and technology in agri seems endless.
Like once I suggested him how the concept of 'Design of Experients'
Which we use in experiment labs,can help him narrow down the right set of parameters/ variable in least number of iterations and find the best method to grow dragon fruit from stem via grafting.
Someday In near future I dream to own a farm and I will definitely get in touch with you for ideas 😊
Hey Sunil, yes, haha, I did work on precision agriculture. Specifically, I worked on parallelizing code through GPUs so that apple detection in apple orchards becomes real-time. Thus, the crop yield becomes automated through a camera attached to a drone, which needs to hover through the orchard. Earlier, this had to be done through manual labor, where a person had to walk through the orchard and count the apples. I ended up publishing a research paper on this, too! Check this out: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0168169919303436
I don't think, though, if I have enough knowledge of grafting-related technologies, but still I would love to have a "constructive, knowledgeable" chat! :) Can't ever say no to that!
Nice!!
The beauty of discussing of agriculture is it doesn't need a lot to catch up.
A lot of plant behaviour can be understood by other living organisms behaviour or even humans behaviour.
Like I will give you an example. When you uproot a plant and plant it in different location. It is said to experience a shock and chances are it won't survive. Due to change in environment and soil. So whenever you uproot try to keep some original soil intact with the plant and plant it as it is in new location.
Is it not applicable to human behaviour also? 😀
Yesterday I was talking to same friend. We were discussing on how keeping proper organised record of accounts can help in making investment based decisions.( Which in agriculture in india is very rare. People just sum up total expenditure and total earnings) we were discussing on how much budget should be kept aside to subscribe for journals and agri magazines.
And also on how agri business could be more profitable by integrating it with fisheries, cattles, hospitality.
Within 5 years the situation will be very grave for people due to monoculture and no water recycling.
Nice conclusion ... "no longer feel the need to fight. " That is a good place to have arrived at.
I once read in a day care center for little kids a big picture of kids playing with word emblazoned on it - Work. Play. Learn. Grow.
When work becomes play then learning happens, and in learning one grows :) Felt it was a great life message for everyone :)
This is indeed true! Work has to become play! Otherwise it is so burdensome. And real learning happens through this playfulness 😄