Succeeded in exterminating 98% of the pests that occurred in a fully autonomous drone
“Debug the Fall Armyworm” – XAG Combats Alien Pests with Crop Spraying Drones
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Drone as New Tech to Battle the Crop-Devouring Fall Armyworm
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The American White Hitori is a type of moth that originates in North America. The white-tailed larva eats the leaves of various plants such as corn and sakura, causing damage to crops, and is a problem for farmers all over the world. Growing American white hits can fly over distances of up to 100 km, producing 1,000 eggs throughout their lifetime. Due to this threatening ability to move and reproduce, the white-spotted starfish has recently emerged in Africa and Asia. According to XAG, the total damage caused by American white hits in 2018 is estimated to reach a maximum of $ 4.6 billion (about 500 billion yen).
The only way to get rid of American white hits is to spray pesticides or remove larvae by hand. However, both methods are inaccurate and the reality is that they are never effective. In addition, pesticide spraying can significantly reduce the health of the sprayer.
The “precision UAS spraying solution” developed by XAG is a pesticide spraying method that achieves the maximum effect with minimal physical labor. The drone is equipped with a mechanical spray that sprays micro-level droplets with a powerful downdraft, allowing pesticides to be evenly distributed on the farm.
You can see how XAG's agricultural drone automatically sprays pesticides in the following movie.
XAG's proprietary flight control system and AI allow drones to fly automatically in accordance with various environments and weathers, so the strength of the high-precision drone spraying method can be introduced even without high maneuvering skills. Using the location information system based on the base station installed in the field and the radar mounted on the drone, it is sprayed only on the necessary places at night when the white larvae are most active.
If it is normal pesticide spraying, it seems that it can not be completely controlled if the larva is hidden behind the leaf, but if it is a high precision drone spraying method, it can accurately spray the backside of the leaf That's it. It seems that the amount of pesticides used can be reduced by 30% and the amount of agricultural water used can be reduced by 90% by the system of “spraying only the necessary amount at the necessary location only” in the high-precision drone application method.
In April 2019, XAG and Bayer CropScience use a drone equipped with a new low-toxic pesticide in a corn field and sugarcane field in Guangxi, China to eliminate white-spotted rice with a high-precision drone spray method Conducted an experiment. As a result, it was found that 98% of the larvae inhabiting the field died.
In July 2019, XAG reported that the Chinese government led a drone team that used seven new drones to minimize pest damage on about 270 hectares of farmland.
In addition, XAG's agricultural drone business has also entered Japan since 2018, and on the official YouTube channel of XAG, a demonstration movie that automatically sprays agricultural chemicals with drones in Japanese rice fields is released.
XAG Japan P20 Plant Protection UAS Spraying for Rice in Kasai-YouTube
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