Drones play a digital agriculture symphony

In the cotton defoliation season just past, plant protection drones once again played the leading role. Over the endless cotton fields, drones fly in the sky, spraying defoliant according to the pre-planned flight path, which is simple, fast and efficient, and has become a unique scene in the fields in recent years.

Agricultural data, as of October 8, in the 2021 cotton defoliation season, 9,162 plant protection UAVs have completed the defoliation of 35 million cotton fields per mu.

Large farmers are more concerned about the efficiency of drone operations. Agricultural production has a strong “timeliness”, want to complete the corresponding operation in the best season, which puts forward a high requirement for operation efficiency. Defoliant operations, for example, usually need to apply twice, 10 days apart, excluding adverse weather and other factors, the suitable operation time is limited each year. With the use of plant protection UAV, it only takes 1 day to complete the application of medicine on 1000 mu of cotton field, and it will take at least 3 days if the traditional locomotive is used. The labor saved is also a large amount of money. “Now in Kashgar, large farmers with an area of more than 1,000 mu are basically using drones.” , plant protection drones have become the “standard equipment” for cotton farmers in Xinjiang.