NAS develops technologies for the use of drones in agriculture

July 28, Minsk. The National Academy of Sciences is developing technologies for the use of drones in agriculture. Elena Yakimovich, Deputy Director for Research at the Institute for Plant Protection of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, told about this at a press conference, BelTA has learned.

“Together with the Chinese-Belarusian enterprise Aviation Technologies and Complexes, our institute is developing technologies for the use of unmanned drones in agriculture. According to our estimates, the introduction of plant protection products by drones is quite promising in crops such as rapeseed and corn, and is also suitable for combating In addition, together with the aerospace monitoring laboratory of the Joint Institute for Informatics Problems of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, we are working on a prototype software for predictive monitoring of potato diseases to increase the effectiveness of protective measures," the specialist said.

Also, Elena Yakimovich announced the development of a fertilizer based on the organic part of municipal solid waste of cellulose-containing materials together with the Institute of Housing and Communal Services of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus. Speaking about the achievements, she also noted the maintenance by specialists of microcultures of various microorganisms, the provision of biotechnical enterprises of the republic with pure cultures of strains for the mass production of domestic biological plant protection products. According to her, such biological products are highly effective in relation to target objects and are easily integrated into integrated crop protection systems.

She also drew attention to the work of the institute in the field of determining the amount of new pesticides in plants, soil and water: "In terms of quality, our data is not inferior to foreign analogues and is 5-6 times cheaper," she said.