{"id":2249,"date":"2016-12-15T07:39:36","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T23:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/?p=2249"},"modified":"2016-12-04T14:41:06","modified_gmt":"2016-12-04T06:41:06","slug":"in-the-future-will-farming-be-fully-automated-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/in-the-future-will-farming-be-fully-automated-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"In the future, will farming be fully automated? – BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The world needs to produce more food to feed a growing population, but is automation and sensor technology the answer?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In the not-too-distant future, our fields could be tilled, sown, tended and harvested entirely by fleets of co-operating autonomous machines by land and air.<\/p>\n

And they’ll be working both day and night.<\/p>\n

Driverless tractors that can follow pre-programmed routes are already being deployed at large farms around the world.<\/p>\n

Drones are buzzing over fields assessing crop health and soil conditions. Ground sensors are monitoring the amount of water and nutrients in the soil, triggering irrigation and fertiliser applications.<\/p>\n

And in Japan, the world’s first entirely automated lettuce farm is due for launch next year.<\/p>\n

The future of farming is automated.<\/p>\n

Food shortages, big business<\/h2>\n

The World Bank says we’ll need to produce 50% more food by 2050 if the global population continues to rise at its current pace.<\/p>\n

But the effects of climate change could see crop yields falling by more than a quarter.<\/p>\n

Source: In the future, will farming be fully automated? – BBC News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The world needs to produce more food to feed a growing population, but is automation and sensor technology the answer? In the not-too-distant future, our fields could be tilled, sown, tended and harvested entirely by fleets of co-operating autonomous machines by land and air. And they’ll be working both day and night. Driverless tractors that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7436,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[416,417,38],"class_list":["post-2249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-farming","tag-fully-automated","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7436"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}