Weeds grow between the rows of cotton. The usual answer is to spray weedkiller over the whole field, even though the weeds cover only a small part of it. Most of the chemical, and the money spent on it, is wasted.
Farm machines are now becoming robots:
- sprayers that see each weed and spray only that weed
- harvesters guided by cameras
- small machines built for India's small fields
The large tractor makers are covered elsewhere.
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Two more small Indian companies work in this area:
Spraying a whole field to reach a few weeds wastes chemicals and money. Computer vision, AI that recognises objects in camera images, lets the sprayer find each weed as it moves. Most Indian farmers have small fields and earn little on each acre. For them, fitting such cameras to the machines they already have may matter more than buying new ones. Back to the cotton farmer from the start of this Market Segment: a sprayer that sees would spray only the weeds between the rows.
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