Potato pest control, T60 helps farmers stabilize production and increase income
Potato, commonly known as potato, is an annual herbaceous plant of the Solanaceae family, combining the characteristics of grain, vegetable and food. As food, it was listed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) as early as 2008 as the world's fourth-largest food crop after rice, wheat and maize; as a vegetable and food, such as hot and sour shredded potatoes, potatoes with stewed pork ribs and potato chips, potato starch and so on, it is common in the lives of all of us.
In potato production operations, the control of pests and diseases is very critical. In the past, we often use ground machinery in the application process there is easy to trap, rolling seedlings, difficult to ensure the time and other problems, resulting in a certain loss of production. Today, let's go through the potato planting base in Ulaanchabu City to understand the advantages of DJI T60 agricultural drone to kill diseases and pests.
I. Overview of potato planting Potato has a strong adaptability to climate, able to grow and reproduce in different climatic conditions between 71° north latitude and 40° south latitude, and there are 160 countries planting potatoes, with a planting area of about 300 million acres. China's potato sowing area of about 70 million mu, planting area of the world's total area of about 1/4.
Speaking of China's potato growing place, located in the middle of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of Ulanqab City has to be mentioned. Ulanqab city is a large city of agriculture and animal husbandry, here belongs to the temperate continental climate, sunshine, day and night temperature difference, fertile soil, unique natural conditions gave birth to the Ulanqab three treasures: oat noodles, potatoes, large leather jacket.
Ulanqab area potato planting area year-round stabilized at about 4 million acres, the planting area and total output in the country ranked first in prefecture-level cities, because of its good potato, bud eye shallow, dry matter (in addition to the water remaining after the substance contains starch, protein, fat and other nutrients) content is high. Because of its good potato shape, shallow shoots, high content of dry matter (the substance remaining after water contains starch, protein, fat and other nutrients), no pollution and other factors, Ulanqab is also known as the “potato capital of China.
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Scale planting of potato in Ulanqab area
Second, the main potato pests and diseases
Potato growth and development can be divided into five main stages, including germination, seedling period, hairy tree period, fruiting period, tuber dormant period, in different stages will suffer from different pests and diseases erosion. We know about nearly 200 kinds of potato pests and diseases.
Common diseases include early blight, late blight, viral diseases, bacterial diseases (soft rot, green blight, etc.), wilt, etc. Among them, early and late blight is the most common and common fungal disease of potato, once occurred and spread will seriously affect the yield and quality of potato, become the focus of potato disease control and difficult.
Common insect pests are underground pests (tigers, golden needles, grubs, etc.), aphids, ladybug beetles, spotted fly and so on. Precise identification of pests and diseases in the field plays an important role in agricultural production and food security, and it can help farmers and agricultural technicians understand the types, numbers, and periods of occurrence of pests in the field in a timely manner, so as to take appropriate control measures.
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Potato early blight
Early and late blight control of potato
Ulaanchabu area summer precipitation accounts for more than 65% of the year, when the relative humidity exceeds 85%, the temperature is 18-25 ℃ when the most likely outbreak of potato late blight. The conditions of early blight are different from those of late blight, with a suitable temperature of 24-29℃ and a relative humidity of 31-96%.
Once early and late blight occurs and spreads can cause 20-40% yield loss, so farmers must quickly complete the application of medicine after the rain to avoid the occurrence of disease. The whole potato growing period pest control need 8-10 times, and the ground machinery can not immediately after the rain drug application (after the rain ground machinery drug application is easy to fall into the ground), how to seize the pest control “window period” after the rain is a large number of potato growers need to face the problem.Potato middle and late branches and leaves, ground machinery into the plot of medicine will roll seedlings, leaves, rhizome damage will also be infected with bacteria, but also directly cause a certain yield loss.
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Ground machinery to apply medicine rolling seedlings
Fourth, T60 helps stabilize potato production and increase income.
This time, we came with the local plant protection team to Chahar Right-Wing Qianqi Banner of Ulaanchab City to participate in the third insecticide and sterilization operation of the local potato planting base this year.
Through the in-depth promotion and use of DJI T60 agricultural drone, the problems of ground machinery trapping, seedling rolling, stem and leaf damage will be effectively solved. With the strong downward-pressure wind field of the drone's rotor as well as smaller droplet sizes, the liquid coverage of potato leaves on both sides will be more uniform, and the liquid can also penetrate to the bottom area of the potato plant.
