Even in the advent of massive textile influx from China and second-hand clothes from other countries, cotton farming is still regarded highly in Zimbabwe.
Dutch grower Sjaak Huetink is enthusiastic about using the Poulsen Robovator camera operated hoeing machine. “We have never sprayed as little or made as few weeding hours. Our plots have never been cleaner.”
By employing so-called deep-learning systems for crop recognition, machines that can combat weeds site-specifically with a minimum of labour and/or chemicals are getting ever closer.
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