Drone “Flying Defense” Protects Rice

Three minutes, seven minutes in charge. Since the beginning of this year, Nanxiong City in Shaoguan has continuously implemented the construction of an agricultural non-point source pollution prevention and control system, focusing on each critical period of rice growth, continuously strengthening the management of rice “fly prevention”, combining green prevention and control with unified prevention and control, and achieving significant improvement in rice yield and quality, ensuring high grain yield and increased income for farmers.

Today, the reporter walked into the rice field of Wu Xuefei, a major grain farmer in Liren Village, Zhuji Town. The green and oily rice fields were endless, like green waves, forming a beautiful scenery. Accompanied by the sound of rotor rotation, the drone, operated by technicians, rose into the air and cruised automatically, flying at a constant speed along the rice field. The spray nozzle under the fuselage sprayed atomized pesticides evenly onto the rice field, providing a “protective coat” for the rice in the field, which was both time and labor saving.
In recent years, the city has applied digital technology to fields and fields, implementing “fly defense” operations through plant protection drones, making agricultural production more green, efficient, and high-quality. Nowadays, plant protection drones are gradually becoming the right-hand man of farmers, adding wings to the high-quality development of agriculture.

We started carrying out ‘flight prevention’ work in 2019, and it has been four or five years now. Most farmers are very satisfied, “said Ma Zhongwei, the manager of agricultural machinery for supply and marketing in Nanxiong City.” Everyone trusts the work of the supply and marketing farmer system very much. Currently, the ‘flight prevention’ area accounts for about 80% of the city’s rice
The reporter learned that this year, the planting area of late rice in the city is 285400 acres. Currently, it is the peak season for late rice production. In order to effectively prevent diseases and pests, the city’s supply and marketing cooperatives continue to implement measures such as agricultural non-point source pollution prevention and control, and green agricultural material upgrading. At the same time, they organize agricultural machinery and technicians to go deep into the production line, guide farmers face-to-face in prevention and control, carry out drone spraying drug prevention and control operations, and scale up the prevention and control of late disease and pest hazards, Improve the speed and effectiveness of prevention and control, reduce the burden on food and agriculture, strive to achieve the goal of “capturing grain from the mouth of insects”, and make every effort to achieve a bumper grain harvest.

In recent years, we have continued to promote low toxicity and efficient pesticides to farmers. Compared to last year, the disease and insect pests of late rice in Nanxiong this year are not as severe. “Wu Qiong, Deputy Director of the Nanxiong Supply and Marketing Cooperative Council, said,” Next, we will actively understand the difficult needs of farmers and further improve agricultural services.