Red Mountain Area “One Spray, Multiple Promotions” Drones Launch to Ensure Autumn Harvest

This year, there have been extreme high temperatures and drought weather, which has had a serious impact on agricultural production. In order to fully win the tough battle of drought resistance and ensuring a bumper harvest, the Red Mountain Area has fully implemented key measures for disaster reduction and production increase, and made every effort to reduce disaster losses and promote stable grain production and bumper harvest. On August 28th, the Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Water Conservancy Bureau of Hongshan District organized a drone professional team and agricultural technical cadres to go deep into the front line in Sanyanjing Village, Wenzhong Town, to carry out “one spray multiple promotion” and “flight prevention” operations on this year’s drought stricken corn and soybeans, ensuring a high yield and harvest of drought stricken corn and soybeans in the Hongshan District.

At 9:00 am on August 28th, it is the best time for drone spraying operations. The relevant leaders of the Hongshan District Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Water Conservancy Bureau and agricultural technology experts went deep into the fields to guide the implementation of key measures for drought resistance and bumper harvest. After 10 minutes, drones officially began spraying operations, marking the first large-scale organization of drone spraying operations in the Red Mountain area this year. Drone spraying can greatly improve the efficiency of fertilizer application for corn and soybeans, and the spraying is even. Compared to manual spraying, the effectiveness of disease and pest control can be improved by 50% to 80%.

The efficiency of drone spraying is very high. A drone spraying 100 acres of farmland takes less than an hour Yue Xiao, director of the Agricultural and Animal Husbandry Technology Promotion Center in Hongshan District, said. At present, corn and soybeans have entered the filling stage. In order to promote the formation and early maturity of corn and soybeans, foliar fertilizers and insecticides should be sprayed in a timely manner. At this time, using drones to spray multiple times can promote plant stability, filling maturity, and increase grain weight.

It is understood that from August 22nd to 30th, personnel from the agricultural technology department in Hongshan District will go deep into the fields to inspect the situation of seedlings and insects, provide targeted disaster prevention and resistance technical services, fully play the role of technical support, actively connect with large planting households and professional cooperatives, guide the implementation of the “one spray multiple promotion” technical measures, reserve agricultural materials, and actively connect information to ensure that the lack of adequate drug and fertilizer protection does not affect disaster relief. Implement “one spray multiple promotions”, and spray potassium dihydrogen phosphate+avermectin or high-efficiency cypermethrin water emulsion on corn plots; For soybean plots in the bulging stage, potassium dihydrogen phosphate+avermectin or high-efficiency cypermethrin water emulsion can be used, with a focus on promoting crop filling, early ripening, and preventing early frost, red spider, aphids, etc.

The 600 acre corn field owned by Li Shuangcheng, a major grain grower in Sanyanjing Village, Wenzhong Town, Hongshan District, has become a demonstration field for “one spray, multiple promotions” in Hongshan District. Li Shuangcheng told reporters that with the precise assistance of the government and on-site guidance from agricultural technology experts, despite the drought this year, he is still full of confidence in a bumper grain harvest.