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Hi there, Ah, I am so sorry! I have failed to mention that the effect of the nitrogen fixation process I am working on is focusing on the link between legumes and subsequent rhizobia that form around its rhizobium. I will try to improve my survey, but I am curious about your thoughts on the...

Dear all, I am Robert from Imperial College and I am currently researching the use of rhizobia and legumes and their effect to boost nitrogen levels in the soil. But before that, I need to understand what are the problems that crop rotation present to farmers so that the new findings in the...

Dear all, I am Robert from Imperial College and I am currently researching the use of rhizobia and legumes and their effect to boost nitrogen levels in the soil. But before that, I need to understand what are the problems that crop rotation present to farmers so that the new findings in the...

Thank you so much for all your replies! We are looking at even potentially ozone to do the trick!

Thank you for your response! I am totally not for the sudden ban on neo-nic and I am here to try to find potential to overcome the mistake the government and many scientists has made!

;) Leave the complexity and firm upgrade to us, and our goal is for you to be able to go to a pub while the drones work for you! Love to chat more on the burner too! If possible please drop me an email so I can give you my number or a link for us to chat more efficiently!

Of course! GMO has very little damage to the environment and public health, and can sometimes be great for pest control too! However it does have its limitations and we will see how might the biologist come up with stronger breeds! For now though, innovation on hardware maybe more approachable.

Hi there, Those are incredibly helpful ideas and feedbacks! Looking into the problem we can certainly see that drones alone would not be incredibly effective. Yet the usage of artificial intelligence/machine learning to predict where swarms may attack and where and when eggs will be layed is...

I'm very sorry about the confusion and offensive content. It's certainly my fault as I am very new to exploring the topic in agriculture. Please accept my sincere apologies.

Please don't do that, there are many people who have posted amazing responses that offer amazing perspectives on the subject.

That is an incredible idea! It is exactly what the project aims to achieve. Machine learning is very good at the tasks you have listed there and it will automatically find these patterns! Now if you are thinking about the project on your walk, I think I might just be thick-skinned enough to ask...

Certainly! That's why the project focuses on early detection and action so that hot spots for the beetles are destroyed before all of the field is infected. Also it is not necessarily killing individual insects, but to detect crowd of insect that has formed in spots of the field and spraying...

Hi there, Thank you so much for your reply! It's certainly very informative! The way many drones are detecting things like flea beetle is through machine learning and picture recognition, some times even using special cameras that could see the little buggers moving! So your concern on the...

Awesome! I certainly appreciate the effort modern farmers has done for the world! Survey #2 is on its way. Please stand by and good night!

Survey #2 in the oven! Thank you for your feedback!

Thank you for your feedback! That might be the beauty of drones is that they could be quite a nice fit for the job of taking things down precisely. Many challenges still ahead, but the potentials are looking interesting!

Sounds exciting! Automatic drones do have the potential to lowering labour cost. Countries facing a decline in population in agriculture has already adapted drones for pest control!

Thank you for the insight! It might be interesting to see how monitoring where the insects and local bees are and only spraying pesticide in small areas while avoiding the bees could fit with the regulation!

Thank you! It is understandable that this is quite a touchy subject to talk about, and it has impacted many people's livelihood! We students need to be shouted at sometimes. Regarding the misinformation, sometimes that is where research starts and hopefully I can become more informed in the...

I would love to hear more of your opinion on why the drones may not be sufficient! I think it is possible that very early detection of larvae and precise usage of pesticides on flea beetles, could potentially help farmers.