Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Flight Prevention Operation Assists the Growth of Early Rice

In May, with warm sunshine and gentle breeze, you can see a large green rice field in the urban countryside of Shuanggang Community in Houjie Town, Dongguan City. Here, Dongguan Agricultural Technology Management Office organizes technicians to use UAVs to carry out flight prevention operations, help farmers do a good job in pest control of early rice, and help early rice growth.

Yesterday morning at 10 o’clock, staff and agricultural technicians from the agricultural and rural departments at the city and town levels in Dongguan City came to the urban garden of Shuanggang Community in Houjie Town to observe the growth of rice seedlings and investigate the situation of diseases and pests. During this period, the plant protection drone carried “exclusive” pesticides for field flight prevention operations. Under the skilled control of the operator, layers of “medicinal mist” descended from the sky and evenly spread over the rice fields.

According to the staff of the Agricultural Technology Center in Houjie Town, it is currently the tillering stage of early rice growth, which is prone to the occurrence of “three pests and two diseases”. If not prevented and controlled in a timely manner, it will directly affect the rice harvest. In the past, traditional artificial pest control methods were used, which resulted in high labor and time costs for farmers. Nowadays, through flying pest control operations, not only can work efficiency be greatly improved, but also pesticide application is more precise, making rice planting more efficient and high-yielding

The medicine we prepare is to prevent and control the ‘three pests and two diseases’ during the tillering stage of rice, mainly including rice leaf roller, rice planthopper, borer borers (such as the rice stem borer and the rice borer), rice sheath blight, and rice blast. “said Wang Biao, a technician from Dongguan Xiaobee Agricultural Technology Co., Ltd. This plant protection drone can complete approximately one acre of land operations per minute.

It is understood that in order to vigorously promote the professional and unified prevention and control of rice diseases and pests in Dongguan City, improve the level of socialized food production services, ensure food security, and promote high-quality agricultural development, Dongguan Agricultural Technology Office has collected suitable rice planting sites as demonstration sites for the 2023 unmanned rice disease and pest control project. The urban countryside of Shuanggang Community in Houjie Town has been designated as a demonstration site and enjoys free unified prevention and control services.