Drones for Smart Agriculture
Sri Lanka
CIC PLC launched an innovation which involves the use of agriculture drones for “smart agriculture practices,” such as scanning fields and distributing agro chemicals and fertilizer with minimum human involvement and wastage. Under this initiative, CIC has developed a technology to scan weeds in large paddy fields using battery powered drones (planes) and spray chemicals to them using the drone. To succeed in the effort, the company used studies and research for the past 8 years to introduce this novel technology which would also minimize the use of chemicals and minimize environmental impact.
Digital Solution (DS) Category
Digital Agriculture
Digital Solution Type (sub-category)
Drone farm services, Farm advisory services
Delivery type (format)
Drones services
Mobile app
DS supplier-user category
Business to business
Type of entity (ICT developer-supplier)
Agribusiness / private company
Name of supplier/developer
CIC Holdings PLC
Primary Users
Farmers , Agribusiness / private company
Digital Solution Development Stage
Commercial stage (broad use use locally)
Number of users or subscribers
Measurable positive impact(s) by Digital Solution (DS) on target users and/or audience
Digital Solution Geographic scope
All over Sri Lanka
Name of Digital village(s), districts, communes where DS is used/deployed
On-line resource links (Web-page links, links to videos, links to reports, etc)
DS Links to FAO, UN and other Development agencies projects, initiatives and programmes