Use of Drone in Pesticide Application

👉The**Ministry of Civil Aviation and Directorate General of Civil Aviation** has granted conditional exemption for Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS) usage to the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare (MoAFW).

👉Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), also known as drones, are aircraft either controlled by ‘pilots’ from the ground or increasingly, autonomously following a pre-programmed mission.

👉There are three subsets of Unmanned Aircraft- Remotely Piloted Aircraft, Autonomous Aircraft and Model Aircraft.

👉This will allow MoAFW to use drones for remote sensing data collection in agricultural areas of 100 districts of the country for gram panchayat level yield estimation, under PMFBY.

👉The conditional exemption granted will be valid for one year from the date of issue of the permission letter or until the operationalisation of the Digital Sky Platform, whichever is earlier.

👉This exemption shall be valid only if all conditions and limitations are strictly adhered to.

👉Even though the conditional exemption has been given to MoAFW, it still needs to obtain necessary clearances from the local administration, the defence ministry, home ministry, Indian Air Force and Airports Authority of India.

👉It would help in assessing crop area estimation and losses due to localized calamities and resolving yield disputes between different stakeholders under the scheme.


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