The National Radio Telecommunication Corporation or NRTC announced earlier this week that they had made a drone to fight the swarm of grasshoppers.
According to the engineers, the drone was created to help farmers fight the swarms of grasshoppers that affect their crops. Drones are used to spray pesticides and insecticides into the fields. These drones will be available on the market at reasonable prices.
Fawad Chaudhry, Minister of Science and Technology, advised Pakistani engineers on how to prepare drones for the swarm of locusts.
پاکستان کی ڈرون ٹیکنالوجی دنیا کی جدید ترین ٹیکنالوجی ہے، زرعی ڈرون کی تیاری اہم سنگ میل ہو گا اس کیلئے ابتدائ تیاری شروع کر دی ہے https://t.co/Jw8mvucIUC
— Ch Fawad Hussain (@fawadchaudhry) July 7, 2020
According to the design engineer, this drone is equipped with a spray tank and map control system ,formers have to put the plot plan on the map the drone will spray the area as it was advised.
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The Prime Minister was also briefed on the duties of the NRTC, especially on the manufacture of locally made drones made against grasshoppers.
Just over 2.4 million hectares of land were sprayed with insecticides and pesticides to keep the attacks at bay. The actions were widely implemented in 41 districts of Pakistan. A total of 972 teams are actively involved in the campaign to free the country from the grasshopper attacks.
In all, 60 districts in all four of the country’s provinces were affected by sprinkler attacks. These insects come from the desert and eat everything from back to seeds and flowers when traveling up to 93.2 miles per day. According to UN reports on food and agriculture (FAO), 38 percent of Pakistan’s agricultural areas are breeding grounds for the insect.
