From April 25th to 26th, the 2024 Yangtze River Delta Agricultural Unmanned Aircraft Plant Protection Skills Invitational Tournament was held at Shanghai Agriculture and Forestry Vocational and Technical College, with 57 contestants from 19 teams competing on the same stage.
At the finals, the advancing teams and individuals completed the pesticide preparation and drone control operations in full swing in accordance with the actual operation process of UAV plant protection. After fierce competition, in the end, the "Hegangren" team from Shanghai Songjiang won the team gold award, the "Jiutong Flying Defense" team from Shanghai Fengxian won the team silver award, the 2 teams of the Agriculture and Forestry Vocational Institute won the bronze award, and the contestant Mao Huiying won the individual first prize.
Guo Lufeng, the referee of this competition and the technical director of Xinyi Plant Protection (Shanghai) Agricultural Technology Co., Ltd., told reporters that the competition is mainly for front-line agricultural drone practitioners with UAV control certificates, focusing on the contestants' mastery of theoretical knowledge such as UAV safety production specifications and operation points, as well as pesticide preparation, The standardization of the actual operation process of UAV plant protection such as UAV control operations, so as to promote the wide application and popularization of plant protection UAV technology, cultivate more intelligent agricultural machinery operators with professional skills, and provide strong support for the digital and intelligent transformation of agriculture in the Yangtze River Delta region.
"The biggest gain is to apply the theoretical knowledge that I have learned in my daily life to practice. Xia Zhijie, majoring in facility agriculture and equipment at Shanghai Agriculture and Forestry Vocational and Technical College, said bluntly that he was very happy to be able to participate in the competition to hone his skills and increase his talents, and it was an unexpected joy to win the ranking with the team.
Cai Hong, Secretary of the Party Committee of the school, introduced that the national digital agriculture industry-education integration community led by the school is actively playing the role of a bridge between "industry, enterprise and school", sharing new technologies in the field of digital agriculture, and exerting energy to improve the level of intelligent equipment operation skills of industry practitioners. In the future, the National Digital Agriculture Industry-Education Integration Community will continue to explore and try to integrate industry and education, and contribute to the field of digital agriculture.
The reporter learned from the scene that in recent years, the Shanghai Municipal Agriculture and Rural Committee has steadily promoted the promotion and application of plant protection drones through a series of measures such as experiments, demonstrations, and large-scale promotion, and has attached great importance to the industry supervision of plant protection drones.
Text: Liu Ruizi
Photo: Courtesy of the interviewee
Editor: Gui Kexin