Technology Empowers Agricultural Modernization with Speed

Recently, in the rice planting base located in Jiudongbei Village, Qibaosi Town, Jialing District, Nanchong City, the green rice is growing well, swaying in the wind and undulating in green waves. On the roadside, the technical personnel responsible for the “flight prevention” operation of the base are pouring the prepared pesticides into the drone medicine box.

With the sound of rotor rotation, two plant protection drones rose into the air under the operation of technicians, flying at a constant speed along the rice field. The spray heads under the fuselage sprayed white atomized pesticides, covering the rice fields with a layer of “protective clothing”.

We are currently using two types of plant protection drones, T20P and T40, which can load 40 kilograms and 80 kilograms of liquid medicine, respectively. Under normal circumstances, a drone can complete 300 acres of land in a day. “said Liu Chenglong, a drone operator at Sichuan Hongsheng Agricultural Technology Co., Ltd., the efficiency of a plant protection drone is more than 20 times that of manual spraying, which can reduce pesticide use by more than 30%. Compared to manual spraying, plant protection drones are more efficient, safe, economical, and environmentally friendly. This year, Jialing District has completed 224000 mu of UAV “flight defense” for corn, sorghum, rice and other crops.

It is understood that in recent years, Jialing District has focused on accelerating the transformation of agricultural development mode, improving the quality and efficiency of development, focusing on increasing grain production, agricultural efficiency, and farmers’ income, focusing on improving the overall mechanization level in the whole process, and centering on the work requirements of “patching up weak points, promoting machine types, and ensuring food safety”, accelerated the patching up of weak points in the whole process of mechanized production, and increased the publicity, promotion, and operation training of new agricultural machinery and equipment, Promote the whole process, comprehensive, high-quality and efficient development of Mechanised agriculture, and enable agricultural production with the power of science and technology. In 2022, Jialing District will issue a total of more than 4.09 million yuan of special funds for agricultural machinery purchase subsidies, which will subsidize 2395 sets of agricultural machinery and tools for efficient land preparation, planting, plant protection, harvesting, drying, straw treatment, etc., benefiting 1679 farmers and agricultural production and operation organizations.