Jinan High-tech Zone uses drones to spray foliar fertilizers, allowing technology to help farmers increase income

As the weather warms up, wheat starts to turn green and enters a critical period of growth. In the past few days, Jinan High-tech Zone has seized the opportunity to organize a professional team of drones and agricultural technology cadres to go to the front line, use drones to spray foliar fertilizers on wheat, and further improve the ability of frost resistance and disease resistance of wheat to ensure stable and increased production of wheat .

In a wheat field in Wangjialou Village, Yaoqiang Street, Jinan High-tech Zone, the staff is operating a drone to spray foliar fertilizers. In just ten minutes, more than 5 mu of wheat fields have completed the spraying operation.

Ji Ying, Director of the Social Affairs Office of Yaoqiang Sub-district Office of Jinan High-tech Zone, said that the wheat is growing well at present, and traditional agricultural machinery is time-consuming and laborious and sprays unevenly. From charging, taking off, and spraying, drones only need two people to complete the workload of more than a dozen people in the past, which greatly saves labor and saves the time for the masses to apply pesticides. They can be employed on the spot and play a role in increasing farmers’ income. A certain boost.
A total of 4 drones were used in this operation. One drone can load 20 kilograms of fertilizer each time, and can complete 600 acres of land in one day, and the spraying is more uniform. Each mu of land can not only save the cost of fertilization, but the foliar fertilizer can also be quickly absorbed by the leaves of the crops, directly enter the plant body from the leaves, participate in the metabolism of the crops, and improve the ability of frost resistance and disease resistance. Its speed and effect are better than that of soil fertilization. The effect came quickly and well.
Wang Zhuo, deputy director of the Agricultural Rural and Rural Revitalization Office of the Development and Security Department of Jinan High-tech Zone, said that in recent years, Jinan High-tech Zone has taken advantage of the “five-zone superposition” in agricultural development and introduced many high-tech agricultural enterprises. A new step has been taken in intelligent planting. In the next step, Jinan High-tech Zone will continue to use modern machinery and new products to fuel the agriculture of the high-tech zone, increase the greenness of wheat when it turns green, and contribute to national food security and grain production.