– 5. 26. (Thu) 10:00, Agricultural Research and Extension Services Field Farming, Unmanned Aircraft Direct Sowing Technology Seminar
– Introduced high-quality rice production technology using unmanned aerial vehicles, an open-air digital agricultural technology
On the 26th, Gyeongsangnam-do Agricultural Research and Extension Services held the 'Rice Production Cost Reduction Conference using Digital Agricultural Technology Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (drone)' at the Agricultural Research and Extension Services area on the XNUMXth.
Recently, big data artificial intelligence is emerging as an alternative for aging, climate change, food problem solving, and sustainable agriculture. Digital technology centered on facility agriculture is expanding, but digital technology for precise cultivation of open-field crops such as rice farming is absolutely insufficient.
In response, Gyeongsangnam-do Agricultural Research and Extension Services applied unmanned aerial vehicles, an on-site digital agricultural technology, to high-quality rice production technology to effectively respond to changes in domestic and foreign agricultural environmental conditions.
At the conference on this day, researcher Lee Byung-han of the Institute of Agricultural Technology helped the attendees understand by directly explaining and demonstrating the direct transmission technology using unmanned aerial vehicles.
Direct sowing cultivation using unmanned aerial vehicles is a cultivation method in which rice seeds are directly sown by unmanned aerial vehicles in freshwater rice fields without planting. The labor required for every 10a of freshwater direct sowing (cultivation to harvest) using unmanned aerial vehicles was 5.22 hours, which was found to be 50% and 32.1% reduced compared to mechanical rice transplanting and non-pole farming, respectively. (Source: Direct sowing cultivation using agricultural drones Stability research study, Chungcheongnam-do Agricultural Research and Extension Services, 2018)
This means that a large area can be sown quickly when direct sowing using an unmanned aerial vehicle is used, and labor and production costs can be dramatically reduced because there is no separate need for nailing and rice transplanting.
In addition, the unmanned aerial wave straight sowing is a sowing method that evenly drops rice seeds in a row. Based on the pre-gps coordinate mapping, the unmanned aerial vehicle flies at a low altitude 50cm above the surface of the water and uses several sprayers to line up the rice seeds at regular intervals. It has the advantage that precise automatic sowing is possible with an error range of about 2 cm.
Sohn Chang-hwan, head of technology distribution division at the Provincial Agricultural Research and Development Institute, said, “Based on today’s annual conference, we expect that digital agricultural technology on the field, including direct planting of unmanned aerial vehicles, will be spread more and more rapidly to the field, and the level of rice farming in Gyeongnam will be further developed.”
Meanwhile, Gyeongsangnam-do Agricultural Research and Extension Services has been distributing rice-free cultivation technology since 10 to reduce rice production costs 2009 years ago. We are concentrating on promotion and technology diffusion.