Kuqa: UAVs show their talents in plant protection, technology empowers smart agriculture
Right now is a critical period for cotton growth, and it is also a season when cotton diseases and insect pests are prone to occur. In order to comprehensively carry out plant protection work, Kuqa City in Xinjiang vigorously promotes drone plant protection, allowing plant protection drones to “fly” to the fields and serve as “plant protectors”, freeing more farmers from the land and broadening their ways to get rich.
In the cotton planting base of Dongfeng Village, Bixibag Township, Kuqa City, a plant protection drone is conducting aerial defense operations. According to the operator, this drone can flexibly carry 20 liters of pesticides and achieve a spraying efficiency of 30 acres per hour. In addition, this drone also has functions such as automatic planning of operation routes, which greatly improves safe operation performance and precise pesticide application capabilities.
In recent years, unmanned plant protection drones have been effectively promoted in Kuqa City, solving the problem of insufficient rural labor force and ultimately achieving the goal of unified plant protection through reduction, consumption control, damage control and efficiency improvement. In addition, through the application of plant protection tools, precise and precise spraying can be achieved to provide support for the prevention and control of pests and diseases.
Taier Yasheng, a team member and agricultural technical consultant of the Xinjiang Branch of the National Energy Group in Dongfeng Village, Bixibage Township, told reporters: “In the past, crops were manually sprayed with pesticides, and the maximum area was 30 acres a day. People are tired and hard-working, and they are prone to poisoning. Now that the drones are on duty, two acres of loose land can be plowed every minute, and 500 acres of land can be plowed in one day. In the past, pesticides were sprayed on the leaves manually, and there was no need to do so. After the man-machine comes up, its airflow will spray pesticides on the underside and back of the leaves, killing the pests.”
It is understood that the current number of plant protection drones in Kuqa City has reached 197, with more than 40 plant protection practitioners. The socialized service area of plant protection drone flight control is 1.5 million acres, accounting for 10% of the city’s crop disease and pest control area. More than 70%. In the next step, Kuqa City will actively apply and promote the “Internet of Things + Intelligent Agricultural Machinery” development model and strive to move towards the goals of smart agriculture and intelligent agricultural machinery.
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