Jingxi: Drone “Flying Defense” Escort Grain Production

During the critical period of rice management and protection, farmers and technicians in Jingxi City seized the opportunity of sunny weather after rain and used drones to carry out rice disease and pest control. The use of drones for unified defense and governance has high efficiency, low cost, uniform spraying, and good atomization effect. Originally, manual labor required a few days of work, which could be completed in just a few hours. “On September 12th, Huang Siyuan, an agricultural technician in the city, introduced.

Since the beginning of this year, Jingxi has set the goal of promoting agriculture through technology and strengthening agriculture through machinery. Focusing on the requirements of stable production and supply of grain, oil, and important agricultural products, Jingxi has promoted the full process mechanized planting technology of rice “sowing seedling transplanting management drying”. A total of 12 agricultural mechanization technology demonstration entities have been cultivated, and agricultural production socialization service organizations have been guided to provide mechanized, intelligent farming and collection, and full process custody services for farmers.

In order to improve the level of farmers’ use of agricultural machinery, the city has established a rural party member agricultural machinery service team, carried out practical training on mechanized breeding and transplanting equipment, and cultivated a modern new type of agricultural machinery operator team that understands agricultural machinery and agronomy, is proficient in operation and maintenance. At the same time, guided by professional agricultural machinery cooperatives, large agricultural machinery households, and planting cooperatives, we will promote agricultural mechanization production services around agricultural production processes such as crop cultivation, planting, management, harvesting, drying, and processing.

Statistical data shows that from January to August, the city guided socialized agricultural production service organizations to use machinery for rice seedling cultivation and transplanting of 6000 acres, and used drones to carry out “flight prevention” management and protection of 56000 acres of rice and sugar cane. It also provided grain drying services to farmers, solving problems such as rice mold and germination caused by limited drying areas and rainy weather.