Apex Agri-Intelligence Lab founded at NTU
Taiwan News
Date: 2019/08/19
By: Taiwan News
NTU working to develop smart agriculture (CNA photo)
NTU's College of Bio-Resources and Agriculture collaborates with Jingwei Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (經緯航太公司), which develops drones, to introduce advanced technologies into agriculture. With this well-equipped lab, the college will hold training sessions on topics such as drones, remote sensing technology, and image analyzing, reported the Central News Agency.
The person in charge of the lab, Professor Liu Li-yu (劉力瑜) of the Department of Agronomy, said that drones can be of great help in spraying and scanning crops. Drones can carry up to 12 kilograms of insecticides at a given time, and it only takes 15 minutes to scan a two-acre field to check the crops for disease and ascertain their growth, according to the Liberty Times.
Luo Zhengfang (羅正方), the founder and chairman of Jingwei, said he was happy to see the fruitful results of three years of hard work. Drones have already been used to monitor the growth of corn, and they could also be applied to wipe out the fall armyworm infestation. [FULL STYORY]
