Drones flying to fields ensure food safety

Since 2023, Xiangyun County has experienced extreme weather such as high temperature, heat wave and heavy rainfall. The high temperature and humidity climate environment provides necessary conditions for the breeding, spread, and large-scale outbreak of diseases and pests. Recently, autumn grain crops have entered a critical period of intertillage management. However, there are Fall armyworm, rice planthopper, potato beetle and other pests, rice blast, potato late blight, pear fire blight and other diseases.

In order to implement the relevant arrangements for agricultural disaster prevention and reduction, the Xiangyun County County Plant Protection Tea and Mulberry Union Party Branch took the opportunity of carrying out the “theme party day” activity, integrated the technical strength of 11 units and stations, including the county agricultural science institute, agricultural environmental protection station, horticultural station, seed station, and started the local food security action in the way of “classroom training+field exercise” and “drone+unified prevention rule”.

The event invited plant protection and agricultural experts from prefectures and counties to conduct centralized training on the “Regulations on the Prevention and Control of Crop Pest control”, pesticide reduction and efficiency increase, red fire ant monitoring and control technology, fertilizer reduction technology, etc., and the heads of 10 township agricultural work teams, plant protection staff, pesticide operators, technical heads of new agricultural operators, etc.

Everyone exclaimed, “The standard configuration of modern agriculture, with new technology, is different. This is just an experiment for everyone to see. Our small plane can control up to 400 acres per day, “said the staff holding the controller proudly.

Through field classes, on-site teaching, experimental demonstrations, thematic explanations, and communication and interaction, Luo Guoqing, the leader of the Agricultural Science Group in Liuchang Town, who participated in the training, said, “There are many grassroots affairs and few people, and we usually don’t have time to systematically learn professional knowledge. This training not only allows us to delve into the field, but also allows us to enter the classroom, and also brings back a large amount of technical materials that embrace green prevention and control. The harvest is really great