20 drones become ‘new weapon’ for field management

In farmer Chen Shengtian’s Taihu waxy rice field, a drone is flying around to spread fertilizer, a snow like fertilizer drift into the rice field, green seedlings riotously absorb nutrients.

“With UAVs, we can no longer worry about applying fertilizer and drugging for waxing of nearly 100 mu of Taihu Lake.” Chen Shengtian said happily.

After the summer sowing of Taihu wawak of 12,000 mu in Jingtoushan Farm ended in mid-to-late June, the field management of the direct seeding field was particularly important, because a lot of manual labor was needed for rice replenishing, miscellaneous removal, fertilization, and spraying. This is a hot and sunny season, the outdoor work time is shortened to prevent heat stroke, coupled with the aging population, a large number of young people choose to work outside, so the supply of field management workers is in short supply.

Farming hours wait for no man. In order to make the field tube smoothly, Jingtou Mountain farm to solve the high temperature on the hiring of practical measures, vigorously promote human-machine force busy field tube.

The farm encourages agricultural machinery cooperatives and agricultural supply stores to purchase drones to realize the integration of mechanical “flying prevention” and fertilization, reduce the amount of manual work in high temperature, and avoid a series of problems such as labor shortage in high temperature and heat stroke. In order to promote drones, the agricultural department of the farm promptly issued subsidies for agricultural machinery and trained drone operators. At the same time, the ridge of fields and trees are cleared to ensure that there are no obstacles at high altitude and the flight safety of the UAV is ensured. At present, the promotion rate of local UAV field tube is increasing year by year, which effectively solves the problem of high temperature labor difficulty.

Taihu waxy planting of Jingtou Mountain farm is generally self-produced and self-retained, so it is very important to remove impurities, and to complete weeds manually. Occasionally, some seedlings die when sowing, and manual seedling replenishment is also needed. In recent years, “field nanny” is still popular. The field has citrus 5000 mu, high temperature season, citrus management into the summer idle period, the farm Party committee through the mobilization, organizing orange farmers down to do “field nanny”. Orange farmer Yu Jianguo said: “In order to avoid heat stroke, we go into the field at 5 o ‘clock in the morning to repair seedlings and remove miscellaneous, 10 o ‘clock to stop work, so we can get 180 yuan wages.” Farmers, he said, work closely with each other as they go up the mountain to pick oranges for the orange farmers in the winter.