Rice Drone Intelligent Fertilization

During the Great Heat solar term, rice enters a critical period of elongation growth. In the fields of Guangming Agricultural Development's Yangtze River Agriculture Advance Zone 6, under the scorching sun, a consumer grade drone quickly completes seedling collection, automatically generates fertilizer prescriptions, and sends operation instructions to the account of the plant protection drone operator. Immediately, two T70 crop protection drones flew up from the field embankment and smoothly shuttled over the rice fields for precise fertilization.

In order to fully implement the decision and deployment of the No. 1 central document, deeply implement the National Smart Agriculture Action Plan (2024-2028), and hold the field observation and training activities of rice UAV smart fertilization technology.

This training combines theoretical lectures with field training to comprehensively enhance the modern planting management capabilities of agricultural technology promotion backbone and large-scale growers at both the urban and rural levels. It provides strong technical support and talent guarantee for accelerating the implementation of the rice yield improvement project and the innovative development of smart agriculture.

During the observation session, the staff demonstrated the smart rice cultivation technology on site. It is reported that this technology applies Beidou navigation, modern agriculture, information technology, agricultural engineering, and other technologies to the entire process of rice production management, establishing a modern agricultural production management mode with "real-time perception, quantitative decision-making, intelligent control, precise operation, and intelligent service" as the technical connotation, realizing the transformation of rice production operations from rough to precise, and from manned to unmanned. It mainly includes core technologies such as digital rice field technology, remote sensing monitoring technology for rice conditions, intelligent decision-making technology for planting fertilization, water and medicine, precise operation technology for cultivation management and harvesting, and intelligent rice cultivation management platform. The staff introduced that with the transformation and promotion of smart rice cultivation technology achievements, smart management of rice production provides leading technologies and demonstration models for the development of modern agricultural production and the guarantee of national food security through new forms of technology and application carriers.