Plant protection drones “fly” into the fields to protect food security-msoen

Right now is the period of wheat flowering and earing, and it is also a period of high incidence of diseases and insect pests.

Mianzhu City vigorously promotes drones to help prevent and control diseases and insect pests, and let plant protection drones “fly” to the fields to be good “plant protection personnel” to protect food security.

At 9 a.m. on March 29, at the wheat planting base of Yinfeng Plantation Cooperative in Shidi Town, a plant protection drone was conducting flight defense operations under the control of Luo Qiang. A series of “drug mist” fell from the sky and spread evenly on the wheat field. In less than half a day, hundreds of acres of wheat fields were sprayed.

“Using plant protection drones for unified defense and rule is effective and efficient, which greatly saves time.” Luo Qiang transferred 1,000 mu of land locally to plant wheat and rice. Every critical period of field management requires a lot of time and manpower . In 2021, he purchased a plant protection drone, which was used for crop fertilization and pest control, which effectively promoted the increase of grain production and became a powerful assistant for the agricultural economic development of the cooperative.

Deploying pesticides, placing water pumps, and presetting the sowing area… In Wufang Village, Shidi Township, a drone shuttled back and forth in the lush wheat fields, and the huge airflow under the rotors pushed the pesticide mist evenly. “Timely rain” was sent for the prevention and control of wheat spring diseases and insect pests.

“Today we organized 4 plant protection drones to carry out wheat pest control in Shidi Town and its surrounding areas, mainly to provide socialized services to local large growers, and at the same time solve the problem of scattered fields and rural old people’s wheat fields.” Mianzhu Yin presented plant protection Liu Yongsheng, head of the professional cooperative, said that compared with traditional manual control methods, plant protection drones can operate on an area of 200 mu per day, which greatly improves work efficiency and makes pesticide application more precise. Since mid-March this year, the cooperative’s prevention and control area has exceeded 4,000 mu, and it is expected that the control area will reach 30,000 mu by mid-April, which has driven the mechanization, convenience, and efficiency of regional agriculture to a certain extent.

In the past few days, agricultural technicians at the three levels of Mianzhu City, town, and village (community) have gone to the fields to carry out training on wheat scientific management techniques, and actively guide farmers to hire professional aerial defense teams to carry out drone spraying and control operations to ensure high wheat yields good harvest. “The control of diseases and insect pests in the middle and later stages of wheat is very important. The technicians personally went to the field to “check the pulse” and provide technical guidance, which gave us full confidence in increasing production and income.” Villager Wu Shunfang said gratefully.

“At present, the number of plant protection drones in the city has reached more than 120 units, and the pest control has reached nearly 1.3 million acres, accounting for about 45% of the city’s total pest control area. We will continue to promote the use of plant protection drones. Achieving increased agricultural production and farmers’ income.” Zhang Guangqing, head of the Plant Protection Station of the Mianzhu Agriculture and Rural Bureau, said that in recent years, Mianzhu City has actively promoted the transformation of agricultural digitalization and vigorously promoted the work of “machine farming, machine broadcasting, machine defense, and machine harvesting”, which has effectively improved Agricultural production efficiency, reducing agricultural operating costs, and empowering industrial revitalization

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