Smart spraying can help cut pesticide use in orchards

Smart spraying can help cut pesticide use in orchards

• Researchers have developed an automated spraying system based on ultrasonic sensors that promise to reduce pesticide consumption in orchards. Ultrasonic sound signals are sent and received by the sprayer, which may be mounted on a tractor. When the tractor goes through a plant canopy, the sprayer activates, and it becomes silent when it passes through open space as it drives through an orchard.

• The most frequent methods employed by orchard producers are manual spraying and continuous spraying. Both of them have serious issues. Manual spraying demands the use of a sprayer, which is hazardous to one’s health. In ongoing operating procedures, the pesticide is sprayed continuously. As a consequence, more than half of the chemicals sprayed are wasted. The sensor-based sprayer, on the other hand, is capable of spraying the pesticide just on plants.

• We expect our technology to replace both of these traditional spraying techniques and would assist farmers in protecting their health as well as resources,” BrajeshNare of ICAR-Central Potato Study Institute, Shimla, and a part of the study team stated in an interview with India Science Wire.

• Pesticide spraying on plant canopies in orchards is a significant concern because of the evident complex structure of plants and variations in their spacing. When pesticides are applied, a substantial portion of the pesticide misses its intended target – leaves and fruits – and enters the environment via soil or air, degrading the ecosystem.

• Orchard sprayers that can skip the area between trees can conserve the environment while saving money for growers.

• The concept is simple: when agricultural chemicals are sprayed on orchards throughout the dormant and in-season seasons, the spray should only land on the trees where they are needed, rather than on the ground where they are not.

• Target sensors that activate spray nozzles only when a tree is present can be integrated into orchard sprayers.

• Crops are vulnerable to pest and disease outbreaks, resulting in up to 20% production losses if not handled. Unfortunately, traditional farming still uses many synthetic pesticides and spraying machinery that isn’t always appropriately calibrated. This use case illustrates how IoT-enabled and highly efficient smart sprayers may considerably minimize the consumption of plant protection chemicals.

• Farmers’ expenditures are reduced, and environmental impacts are reduced because of the faithful and automated adaption of sprayers to specific field zones and individual plant conditions. Innovative spraying technology helps to avoid crop damage and production losses by proactively preventing application mistakes. Furthermore, with tailored crop protection and real-time information on treatment quality, operating efficiency is improved.

As a consequence, this application aids farmers in producing high-quality crops in an environmentally friendly and safe manner. Let us now describe how this idea emerged from the visionary’s fire.

• Helping farmers save money and preserve biodiversity • Citrus, fruit trees, and vine and stonecrops, including cherries, apples, and almonds, benefit from using a trailed air-blast sprayer.

• It uses the cloud to link to a field management platform (Specialty Crops Platform, SCP), allowing direct communication between the smartomizer H3O on the field and the farm’s back office. For proper and effective treatment, the SCP offers the best treatment settings based on the crop dimensions.

• The technician may quickly configure work orders and send the required parameters straight to the sprayer using the program. This intelligent equipment sends real-time alerts to the tractor operator if any preconfigured treatments are not completed correctly, preventing potential failures. As a result, this proactive strategy significantly decreases drift. When the treatment is finished, all data is sent to the field management portal, allowing additional analysis. Every stage of the spraying process is monitored to provide complete traceability of the amount, time, and place where a specific plant protection product was sprayed. It assists the farmer in complying with food safety regulations and organic labeling requirements and makes mandatory farm paperwork easier. For the customer, this means more information on the product on store shelves.

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