Drones bring “insecticidal rain” to rice

At present, it is a critical period for the management of rice planting fields, affected by high temperatures and rainfall, and also a period of high incidence of diseases and pests. On August 16th, in Baiguoba Village, Wanzhai Township, Xuan’en County, drones were used to carry out agricultural plant protection on more than 150 acres of rice in contiguous paddy fields and dams, ensuring high grain yield and increasing farmers’ income.

According to reports from officials in Baiguoba Village and monitoring by agricultural technicians at the county and township levels, the rice fields and dams in Baiguoba Village are clustered into over 100 acres, which is the critical period for breaking through and heading. To ensure high grain yield and income, plant protection technicians, agricultural machinery technicians, and agricultural socialized service organizations from the county and township immediately went to the site for observation and diagnosis, and worked with the village’s sharp knife team to develop prevention and control plans, Determine the prescription of prevention and control drugs and the method of drone integrated prevention and control, conduct on-site dispensing, and guide drone spraying prevention and control.

At the work site, technical personnel operate plant protection drones to shuttle over rice fields for low altitude operations. The compressed air flow under the aircraft propeller highly atomizes the pesticide solution, evenly covering the rice fields with pesticides, effectively preventing various diseases and pests, and bringing “insecticidal rain” for rice disease and pest prevention and control.

This drone unified defense and control measures have been taken to prevent and control rice leaf roller, rice planthopper, rice blast, rice smut, sheath blight, and other diseases. At the same time, leaf fertilizer has been added to ensure increased production. The drone integrated prevention and control measures have good atomization effect, uniform spraying, beneficial for crop absorption, and good prevention and control effect. Moreover, drone prevention and control can save time, achieving the completion of medication in the same area within one day. This prevention and control area is over 150 acres, improving labor efficiency and also improving the prevention and control effect, achieving the goal of cost saving and efficiency increasing Introduction by Wang Hui, Director of Wanzhai Township Agricultural Technology Service Center.