Colombia: Drones Are Being Enlisted to Tackle Colombia’s Cocaine Farms

Aug 22, 2018 | Malek Murison, Drone Life
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We’re not quite at the stage at which drones are taking an active role in day to day agriculture. Despite hardware releases from DJI and other manufacturers with a view to autonomously sowing seeds and dispensing pesticides, most drone applications on the farm are more passive in nature: field mapping, crop health checks, that sort of thing. However, the Colombian government is bucking that trend, using drones in a much more active manner in a bid to dismantle the cocaine trade.