{"id":230756,"date":"2024-07-23T16:26:07","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T08:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/?p=230756"},"modified":"2024-07-23T16:26:07","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T08:26:07","slug":"agricultural-drones-are-transforming-rice-farming-in-the-mekong-river-delta-hacker-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/?p=230756","title":{"rendered":"Agricultural drones are transforming rice farming in the Mekong River delta | Hacker News"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8230;robotics take over farming, individually plucking each weed or weevil, and metering just the right amount of water for each individual plant, so that all the crops are organic. Most of the chemicals (yes, including nitrogen fertilizers) offset labor, so when the labor is free we shouldn\u2019t need them. And people won\u2019t have to spend their lives in stoop-back work or exposed to toxic chemicals.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=40722784\">Agricultural drones are transforming rice farming in the Mekong River delta | Hacker News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;robotics take over farming, individually plucking each weed or weevil, and metering just the right amount of water for each individual plant, so that all the crops are organic. Most of the chemicals (yes, including nitrogen fertilizers) offset labor, so when the labor is free we shouldn\u2019t need them. And people won\u2019t have to spend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=230756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230757,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230756\/revisions\/230757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=230756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=230756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=230756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}