Published: 2:13pm, 21 Mar, 2019 Updated: 10:04pm, 21 Mar, 2019
Japanese farmers are turning to drone technology in an attempt to reduce the impact of fewer young people entering the industry . With farming communities getting progressively older on average , Japan 's agriculture ministry plans to conduct a series of tests which will determine the effectiveness of drone technology to help them . The tests will include tasks such as spraying crops with pesticides and fertilisers , sowing fields , artificially pollinating fruit crops , transporting equipment and conducting airborne field surveys .