Recently, at Pengxiang Fruit Farm, the reporter saw a drone filled with pesticides soaring into the sky accompanied by bursts of roaring sound. In an instant, it rolled over the mountain and disappeared. The small red dot on the remote control display indicates that this small aircraft is cruising over the orchard according to the preset trajectory, evenly spraying chemicals on fruit trees and seedlings. It is reported that this is the first time Penghua Town has used agricultural drones to spray pesticides.
Our fruit farms are mostly mountainous and have a large area. In the past, manual spraying of pesticides has been used, resulting in high labor pressure. “Guo Annan, the person in charge of Pengxiang Fruit Farm, introduced that they have introduced third-party agricultural drones to spray pesticides on the fruit forest. This agricultural drone can carry 50 kilograms of pesticides at a time, and can complete the spraying work of 2 acres of land every 10 minutes at the fastest.
It is understood that Penghua Town, as a township with a significant phenomenon of rural population migration, has always been a problem restricting the development of fruit farms due to high labor costs. According to our experience, if manual spraying is used, the daily cost for each worker is about 200 yuan, and the working hours are about 100 mu/30 days. However, now the cost of using drone spraying is 40 yuan/mu, and the working hours are about 100 mu/1 day, which is about 2/3 less pesticide than manual spraying, saving a lot of costs, “Guo Annan said.
It is reported that in order to achieve increased agricultural production and efficiency, as well as increased farmers’ income, Penghua Town has made great efforts. On the one hand, with the support of superiors, it has contacted science and technology special envoys at the provincial, municipal, and county levels, point-to-point, directly reaching the front line of rural areas, indicating the direction for the development of fruit farms; On the other hand, it has also established a joint training base with the China Strait Talent Market, guiding Penghua Agriculture to shift towards technology based agriculture through new high-quality farmer training courses and other means, cultivating internal talent motivation for rural revitalization in Penghua, and encouraging Penghua Chinese to independently explore technology to increase production and efficiency.
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