Aksu City, Xinjiang: drone assisted spring plowing

At present, it is a critical period for crop growth, in order to further promote the high-quality development of the grain industry in Aksu City, promote the improvement of farmland quality, and reduce the amount and efficiency of fertilizers and pesticides. In recent days, Aksu City, Xinjiang has actively organized and carried out wheat spring field management, centralized flight prevention operations, unified prevention and control, and seized the opportunity to ensure a bumper harvest during the agricultural season.

At the Ruifeng Village High Standard Wheat Planting Base of the Liuyuan Farm Area Management Committee in Aksu City, five plant protection drones, under the control of staff, atomized the liquid medicine at a high altitude and flew low in the wheat planting base according to a preset route, continuously spraying herbicides and foliar fertilizer on contiguous wheat. In less than half a day, the “flying defense” task of over 2500 acres of farmland was completed.

Tian Yu, the UAV operator, said: “The plant protection UAV is particularly suitable for large-scale and high standard grain field operations. Compared with the past spray, it has the advantages of accuracy, efficiency, strong penetration, less impact by weather factors, and so on. It not only saves time and labor, but also is safe and environmentally friendly.”

The plant protection drone has significant advantages such as high spraying efficiency, good plant protection effect, wide applicability, safe operation, reduced dosage and increased efficiency of fertilizers and pesticides. It not only greatly saves labor costs, but also improves the utilization rate of pesticides. Zhang Qinglin planted more than 11000 acres of wheat, which used to be treated with traditional methods. The treatment was uneven and lasted for a long time. This year, he used drones for flight defense operations, so he no longer had to worry about treating the wheat with medicine.

Zhang Qinglin, a planter in Ruifeng Village, Liuyuan Farm Area Management Committee, Aksu City, said: “Five drones can complete over 10000 acres of land in two days, and the entire process of mechanized operation reaches 100%. It is relatively convenient, time-saving, labor-saving, and cost-effective.

In order to ensure the improvement of quality and efficiency of wheat and other crops, as well as the increase of farmers’ production and income, relevant departments in Aksu City organized agricultural technicians to go deep into the fields and carry out training on wheat scientific management technology, providing full process technical guidance services. While improving the speed and effectiveness of large-scale prevention and control, plant protection drones were also widely applied to crops such as cotton and corn, and modern agricultural technology was used to inject “technological wings” into grain production.