Drone plant protection flies to a “new height” to help farmers

At the operation site, accompanied by the buzz of the rotating propeller, the UAV was operated and adjusted by technical personnel and shuttled through the field to carry out the flying operation in an orderly manner according to the pre-planned route. This year, the county supply and marketing cooperatives to undertake 10,000 mu of rice and rice fertilizer rotation project, the project capital of 1.2 million yuan, involving 5 towns and 12 villages, buy 20 tons of green fertilizer seeds, supply and marketing drone flight defense team plans to use 15 days to complete all project tasks.

In recent years, the county supply and marketing cooperatives have actively acted as efforts to improve the comprehensive service capacity of agricultural modernization, and the promotion of plant protection operation services has been included in the key construction projects of the comprehensive reform of supply and marketing cooperatives. The company has established a professional team of 15 technicians, 2 professional after-sales maintenance and training personnel, and 8 drones to provide timely and efficient flying and flight prevention services and sales, after-sales service and pilot training of DJI plant protection drones for all kinds of growers in the county. Since November 2022, a total of more than 10 DJI drones have been sold, and more than 15,000 mu of rapeseed and Ziyunying green fertilizer seeds have been flown, and more than 20,000 mu of sugarcane and rice have been flown, serving more than 1,000 households.

In the next step, the county supply and marketing cooperatives will continue to deepen the comprehensive reform of supply and marketing cooperatives, continue to expand the field of agricultural services, vigorously promote the process of agricultural modernization, provide guarantee for farmers to increase income and get rich, help rural revitalization and national unity, and contribute to the supply and marketing force for Wuxuan to accelerate the construction of a new pattern of high-quality development of “three cities and three districts”.