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  • Is this the future off farming?

  • It's all electric.

  • Autonomous aunt can help boost sustainability in agriculture It's a smart tractor developed by California based firm Monarch Tractor Monarch Tractor is the bridge between sustainability and very profitable farm economics, and farmers should not be in a position where they have to choose between one off those two.

  • We believe that it is possible to have both, and our tractor allows farmers to have the best of both worlds.

  • The monarch tractor is cleaner than existing machines.

  • It's able to work for 10 hours on just a 4 to 5 hour charge, significantly reducing farm emissions As it goes, it's smart to using eight onboard cameras and sensors to monitor a 360 degree view of its surroundings.

  • The tractor is able to collect up to 240 gigabytes of data in a day.

  • That data is stored in the tractors.

  • Cloud system on artificial intelligence does the rest.

  • According to CEO and co founder Praveen Pen Metsa, our AI platform picks all this data and then not only provides insights to the farmer, but also controls the tractor platform and the operation that the tractor is doing So, for example, uh, if the tractor is going down a row waken, remove the driver from this spraying operation on while we're spraying, our AI can detect what the plant is doing, what the condition of the plant is, but also what the weather conditions are and based on that make riel time adjustments on the spraying side to decrease the number of chemicals used, and also to maximize the yield for the farmer.

  • Monica Tractor has a starting price of $50,000.

  • The company says it's currently targeting vineyards, fruit and nut orchards and even dairy and solar farms, but not larger agriculture products like corn, soy and cotton.

  • But does the technology threatened farmers jobs?

  • The developers say their autonomous A I machines allow existing farm workers to focus on other jobs, such as improving the quality of produce rather than operating machinery.

  • Monica Tractor is one of the latest companies trying to make farming greener on more profitable Japanese company CO.

  • Botha and US heavyweight equipment firm John Deere recently announced autonomous and sustainable tractors, but both are still just concepts.

  • Even though it is a tractor and does everything a tractor does, we see this as, ah hub for the future of farming globally, Onda.

  • We expect the tractor to not only help with farm economics but also help all off global farming be cleaner on more sustainable in the long term.

Is this the future off farming?

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