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May 6 (JIS):

Executive Director, Jamaica 4-H Clubs, Peter Thompson, is calling for greater investment in drone technology by players in the agricultural sector.

He noted that drones have the potential to boost production by ensuring greater efficiency in operations.

“One of the things we have seen happening, especially with the use of drones, is that an acre of land of crops can be sprayed in three minutes. You can use it to do what is called vegetation indexing, where predetermined data is programmed in the drone for a specific crop. You can fly over that crop and you...