For smart agricultural promotion, an unmanned car is expected to save labor in automatic spraying agricultural farmers Setouchi Town

Workshop where there was a demonstration of agricultural unmanned cars that automatically spray pesticides = 22nd, Setouchi -cho Akana

　On the 22nd of Setouchi -cho and the same town's general training support council, a smart agricultural promotion workshop held a smart agricultural promotion workshop on the 22nd orchard in Aki.28 farmers and town officials in the town participate.There was a demonstration of agricultural unmanned cars that automatically spray pesticides, confirming the effects of labor saving, and hoping for agricultural promotion utilizing advanced technology.Against the backdrop of the lack of labor due to population decline, efforts to promote "smart agriculture", which improves farm work with robots and AI (artificial intelligence) technology that are attracting attention nationwide.Aguri Kawasaki (Kagoshima City), a small agricultural unmanned unmanned (drone) business, cooperated.Agricultural unmanned cars are developed by Chinese drone manufacturers.Automatically runs using a high -precision positioning system called "RTK" to accurately spray pesticides.Equipped with a 100 -liter tank and two drug sprayers rotating up, down, left and right.The battery can work for about 2 hours with a 15 -minute charge.The price is about 3.5 million yen.This is the first demonstration in Amami Oshima.The workshop was held at the farm of Seiro Takehara (45), which grows a new variety of Kankitsu's new varieties "Tsunoki" (Tsunokagayaki) in the town of Agi.The company's president Kawasaki Kawasaki, who performed an unmanned car, explained the features, such as being able to spray drugs on the back of the fruit trees that were difficult with a drone, and that it could be used to transport harvested items by replacing tanks with a carrier.bottom.The company plans to operate it manually using the controller at hand, follow the back of the pilot, and also plan to spray granules and introduce the mowing devices in the future.Mr. Takehara, who has been working on tankan and passion fruit cultivation in the town since 2012, said, "Work in places where pesticide spray cars do not enter.I want to introduce it using the assistance project. "On the 23rd, there will be a workshop at the Oshima Branch at the Prefectural Agricultural Development Center in Nase City, Amami City.

Amami's Nankai Nissho Shimbun