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by KaiserPro 691 days ago
One of the exciting things about better computer vision is the ability to have dense mixed crops.

This is where you can have three or four sympathetic crops growing side by side, allowing for greater resistance to various environmental factors. It also, if you give them enough attention, increase yeild.

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Especially with a robot that can harvest and sort different crops. Monocultures are unsustainable, but currently there isn’t really any other economic choice to keep a farm running. Technology like this is going to open so many new possibilities.