India - Crop monitoring and assessing soil health with drone tech is a boon: Director, NRCSS

To promote drone technology and popularise it for spraying purposes and precision agriculture, a demonstration was organised at ICAR-National Research Centre on Seed Spices, Ajmer, India.

Dr S N Saxena, Director, ICAR-NRCSS briefed the benefits of emerging drone technology for spraying pesticides, insecticides, and liquid fertilisers. He emphasised that the technology could also be extended for crop monitoring and assessing soil health.

He also said that this could be a boon for seed spice and seed spices-based fruits and vegetable growers.

The event was attended by around 100 farmers, college students and the entire ICAR-NRCSS staff.

Dr D S Bhati, Head, Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) Ajmer stated that the technology is excellent for young farmers and agriculture graduates and their employability. Additionally, because it uses contactless spraying technology, which will assist in eliminating the adverse effects of spraying pesticides and insecticides to farmers during spraying.