Agricultural drones are transforming rice farming in the Mekong River delta

Re:Agricultural drones are transforming rice farming in the ... by infecto on Thursday June 20, 2024 @07:56AM (#40737652)

This is the typical utopian dream that is complete horse manure. We like to look back and think how quaint and healthy things were but they were not. While there are a lot of improvements to be had in our current supply chain, going back to smaller farms is not the way to get there.

What you described would be more costly and I don't think there is really any relationship to health. Your food would end up being more expensive as most of the things you listed cost very little in the grand scheme, labor is the most expensive part.

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Re:Agricultural drones are transforming rice farming in the ... by InSteady on Thursday June 20, 2024 @12:40PM (#40740621)

I haven't crunched the math or anything, but you don't feed 8 billion people with small farms unless every 10th person is willing to go farm. Currently it's more like every 150th.

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Re:Agricultural drones are transforming rice farming in the ... by infecto on Thursday June 20, 2024 @06:22PM (#40744087)

Sounds like solid napkin math. It true though, you don't have that happen unless a lot more people are farming and honestly, farming is valuable but the labor is not. Its better spent else where. I absolutely believe there are massive improvements to be made but I think they will happen with technology and more automation.

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