Mr. Dang Minh Vuong in Phu Cuong commune, Tam Nong district, who cultivates 30 hectares of rice, is very satisfied when he hires the service of a company to use a plane to spray pesticides on his field. Mr. Vuong said: "Since having this company's spraying equipment, people have been very excited. Because the cost of the service is cheap and the spray is faster than hiring someone to spray it with money. Spraying by flying equipment does not have to wade into the fields, trample on rice…”.
Farmers are very excited because the drones are convenient and the service fee is low when spraying pesticides. Photo: Trong Trung.
Mr. Nguyen Van Phuong in Tan Loi hamlet, Tan Cong Sinh commune (Tam Nong district) cultivates 40 hectares of fields, has just sown summer-autumn rice in 2022. This is the 6th crop he has applied unmanned aerial vehicles to spray pesticides for prevention and control. rice pests. Initially using a service drone with only 10 liters of water to spray, now the aircraft has increased its capacity to 20 liters and can carry a load of 52kg, so that it sprayed only from 7 am to about 12 noon. finished his 400 works of rice fields.
This flying device is both fast and cheap, only costing from 130,000 to 160,000 VND/time to spray/ha, saving costs up to 6 million VND/ha/crop. Mr. Nguyen Van Phuong shared: “In the past, I had 3 acres of fields, spraying pesticides by hand, took a lot of time and effort. Now, thanks to this flying device, I am fine. I do a lot of farming, but I can't spray my hands. Besides, now there is no labor to hire."
According to a technical staff of a pesticide spraying service provider, one drone can spray 60ha/day, each flight sprays 10,000m2 of rice fields, taking 10 minutes, 15 times faster than traditional spraying. Spraying pesticides in this way does not trample rice during the spraying process, so it limits the impact on workers' health because it does not have to be in direct contact with chemicals.
Currently, many farmers in Tam Nong (Dong Thap) are still "violent", investing billions of dong to buy flying equipment for home use and for services. Photo: Trong Trung.
Seeing the convenience of flying equipment to spray pesticides, now many farmers in Tam Nong district have boldly invested hundreds of millions of dong, even billions of dollars, to buy flying equipment to spray pesticides for their children. own rice fields and also do services.
In 2020, Mr. Nguyen Van Hong in hamlet 5, Hoa Binh commune, Tam Nong district invested nearly 600 million VND to buy flying equipment to spray pesticides for 40ha of rice fields. After that, Mr. Hong invested more than half a billion dong to buy another spraying device that both worked in the fields and provided services for the surrounding rice field owners.
Mr. Nguyen Van Hong did not hesitate to say: "In general, investing in flying equipment worth nearly 600 million VND is a large amount of money, but after serving his rice fields, after only one year, he will get his capital back. already. The flying device is still working now, except for the loss for the maintenance station to repair, now I still fly normally. In the near future, I plan to invest in buying another fertilizer sprayer, spraying rice seeds for convenience, because the labor is less, I serve my own rice, effectively, I serve neighboring people …”.
The scope, scale and capacity of the flying devices to spray pesticides are getting bigger and bigger. Photo: Trong Trung.
According to the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Tam Nong district, the whole district currently has 65,000 hectares of cultivated rice land in the year. The application of flying equipment to spray pesticides helps farmers not have to come into direct contact with the drug, reducing the number of spraying times; reduce production costs…
Mr. Luu Van Tien, Deputy Head of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Tam Nong district said: The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development will continue to deploy a model of applying pesticides by flying equipment to continue to evaluate the effectiveness. evaluate the technical process of using equipment in spraying pesticides for rice safely and effectively. In addition, a pilot model of using drones will be deployed for sowing and spraying fertilizers, in combination with pesticides to help reduce costs even more in rice production.
Source: Tran Trong Trung
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