{"id":191644,"date":"2025-02-17T14:48:55","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T12:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-how-drones-are-transforming-agriculture-in-cote-divoire\/"},"modified":"2025-02-17T14:48:55","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T12:48:55","slug":"cote-divoire-how-drones-are-transforming-agriculture-in-cote-divoire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-how-drones-are-transforming-agriculture-in-cote-divoire\/","title":{"rendered":"Cote d&#8217;Ivoire: How Drones Are Transforming Agriculture in C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\"><em> In C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire, where agriculture accounts for 20 percent of GDP, the sector is gradually modernising and adopting new technologies to improve efficiency &#8211; notably drones, used in the application of pesticides. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">In the small village of Sokrogbo, in the south of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/en\/tag\/c%C3%B4te-d-ivoire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire<\/a>, locals never tire of a particular sight: the take-off of the T-10 drone, a 25 kilogram machine capable of spraying up to 4.8 litres of pesticides per minute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"56\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t stand too close to the drone, I move a little further&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502170011.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ivory Coast\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/\">C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire (Ivory Coast)<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire, where agriculture accounts for 20 percent of GDP, the sector is gradually modernising and adopting new technologies to improve efficiency &#8211; notably drones, used in the application of pesticides. In the small village of Sokrogbo, in the south of C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire, locals never tire of a particular sight: the take-off of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":191645,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[258,256,1633,5958,6183,6555,5959,9292,1218,257,254,12606],"class_list":["post-191644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-agriculture","tag-cote","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-divoire","tag-drones","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-transforming"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}