The Agriculture department is planning to expand the use of drone technology in crop fertilization, spraying biopesticides and so on in rice fields in Alappuzha.
As part of popularising the technology among farmers, a demonstration of drone spraying biopesticide (instead of a pesticide, water was sprayed) was held at Kainakary Kadumkayyal paddy polder in Kuttanad on Thursday.
Inaugurating the spraying, District Collector V.R. Krishna Teja urged officials to conduct awareness programmes to allay the concerns of people while introducing new technologies in agriculture.
