Recently, during the season of pear blossom, in Guanmiao Village, Madian Town, Luoning County, fruit farmer Wei Jianfeng operated a plant protection drone to spray medicine on pear trees. From a distance, this drone has a huge volume, and the huge airflow under the rotor drives the pesticide mist to evenly disperse and accurately spray on the pear trees. In a short while, it completed the pesticide spraying on the 10 acre pear orchard and landed steadily on the apron.
It is reported that this “Jifei” quadrotor UAV has a load of 50 kg. It can complete agricultural spraying in the office by downloading APP on the mobile phone, locating the plot, selecting the operation area, and executing commands in the background. One hour can produce 100 acres of medicine, which is more than 10 times more efficient than manual labor. Every year, labor costs alone can save about 300000 yuan for the village. “When it comes to plant protection drones, Wei Jianfeng praised them endlessly.
Guanmiao Village in Luoning County is located in the western mountainous area of Henan Province. The village is dominated by the Jinzhusha pear industry, with a planting area of over 3500 acres. It requires 10-15 pesticide sprays per year. The terrain of mountainous orchards is complex, and the use of manual pesticide spraying not only has low efficiency and low water and pesticide utilization, but also tends to cause uneven pesticide spraying.
The plant protection drone has high pesticide spraying efficiency, small quality, flexible adjustment of flight speed, spraying height, and other advantages. It can play a significant role in pesticide spraying operations in complex terrain areas, saving resources, protecting the environment, and improving fruit production. “He Yuju, Deputy County Mayor of Luoning County, said that in order to comprehensively improve the mechanization and intelligence level of Guanmiao Village collective cooperatives, improve production efficiency and comprehensive production capacity, With the targeted assistance of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the China Rural Development Foundation, in collaboration with Qualcomm, donated one unmanned vehicle and three drones to the Guanmiao Village Collective Cooperative through equipment assistance and technical training to carry out the Qualcomm Luoning Jinzhu Shali Smart Agriculture Project.
“Pest control is a technical activity, and it is especially necessary to master the ‘heat’. Only by hitting drugs on key nodes, can we achieve the goal of ‘pest feeding’,” said Wei Jianfeng, Previously, it was difficult to find workers who sprayed pesticides. If encountering cloudy and rainy days, the ground environment would not allow large agricultural machinery to enter, often leading to missed farming hours and a decrease in fruit production. Nowadays, with this’ high-tech ‘technology, the entire village’s pear trees can be sprayed once in three days, which can also reduce the damage caused by large agricultural machinery to pear trees
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