Plant protection drone flight prevention technology to help farmers ensure harvest

At present, it is a critical period of crop pest control. The supply and marketing cooperatives of Nanchuan District of Chongqing serve “three farmers” based on their functions and responsibilities, and actively carry out agricultural socialization services. On July 31, Chongqing Nanchuan District Supply and marketing cooperatives organized agricultural technicians to Qiping village, Hetu Town, to guide and help farmers carry out rice disease and pest control work, and use plant protection drones to carry out “flight prevention” operations on 110 acres of paddy fields to ensure that rice production increased farmers’ income.

According to agricultural technicians, the UAV agricultural modernization service has high efficiency of spraying construction, accurate operation of UAV, environmental perception technology, wide coverage of spray water mist, both fine and uniform, high utilization rate of fertilizer and medicine, and the efficiency is much higher than that of traditional manual operations, thus realizing the reduction of fertilizer and pesticide and reducing environmental pollution. Save time, money, weight, and improve crop quality and efficiency.

In recent years, Nanchuan District supply and marketing cooperatives in Chongqing have vigorously promoted the construction of agricultural socialization service system, focused on improving the comprehensive service ability of agricultural modernization, and carried out series services such as soil testing, formula fertilization, and drone control and rule.

This year, a total of 130,000 mu of agricultural socialization services have been carried out, of which 46,000 mu of drone unified defense rule, effectively reducing manpower, material resources, costs, improving the quality and quality of agricultural products, and laying a solid foundation for promoting agricultural efficiency in the region and increasing farmers’ income.