Farming made smart

THE Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) is trying to get farmers to come together and utilise technology to predict plant deficiencies with the use of drones.

RADA’s Senior Programmer Hartnell Campbell says the drone technology being used for mapping and spraying is not being implemented by small-scale farmers, mainly due to the cost of owning the equipment.

“The one that has on the multispectral camera that can tell everything about the crop, that one cost almost $2 million,” he revealed to the Jamaica Observer in an interview.