Plant Protection Drones Boost High Quality and Efficient Development of Agriculture

On May 15th, above the rice field planted by Gong Zicheng, a wealthy farmer in Pengzong Village, Jiaqiao Town, Jinxian County, an agricultural drone equipped with a mixture of herbicides, insecticides, and other pesticides was shuttling back and forth in a trajectory. The bottom was sprayed with a mist of pesticides, which scattered in the green rice field with the airflow, causing waves of “green waves”.

“One UAV can complete nearly 100 mu of spraying operation every hour. Compared with traditional manual operation, flying prevention operation by UAV can greatly reduce the cost of labor, time and other resources, and pest control is more thorough, efficient and effective.” Gong Zicheng, a large planter, introduced.

In order to comprehensively promote the high-quality and efficient development of agriculture and ensure food security throughout the town, Jiaqiao Town has made great efforts in the unified prevention and control of plant protection drones. On the one hand, through online and offline publicity methods, the advantages of plant protection drones and support policies for purchasing agricultural machinery are explained and explained, guiding large planting households in their jurisdiction to actively purchase plant protection drones. On the other hand, by arranging professional technical personnel from the town’s agricultural office to go to the countryside for technical guidance, the specific operation methods of plant protection drones are taught well, so that large planting households can proficiently master the use of plant protection drones.

The advantages of plant protection drones in saving time and effort, as well as low cost and high efficiency, have received strong support and recognition from a large number of planting households. Currently, there are 35 planting households in the town that use plant protection drones for unified prevention and control, accounting for 45% of the total number of planting households. Next, Jiaqiao Town will further increase the promotion of mechanized and intelligent agricultural machinery technologies such as plant protection drones, continuously improving the level of agricultural mechanization and technological application in the town, and better Serve modern agriculture and promote the high-quality and efficient development of agriculture throughout the town Introduction by Fan Yousheng, Director of the Agricultural Office of Jiaqiao Town.