For the first time in Turkey, multiple flight spraying trials were carried out with ZIHAs.

Inside the scope of the research carried out by the expertise firm Tarnet, Tarım Kredi Bilişim ve İletişim Hizmetleri Sanayi Ticaret AŞ (TARNET) and the Agriculture and Rural Improvement Help Establishment (TKDK), which is an affiliate of the Turkish Agricultural Credit score Cooperatives, on a 100-decare paddy discipline in Samsun’s Terme district, agricultural unmanned aerial automobiles For the first time, multiple flight spraying trials were carried out in Turkey.

On this context, it was ensured that 100 acres of land were sprayed in 1.5 minutes with 10 ZIHAs that took off at the similar time.

”WE DO SERIOUS EDUCATIONAL WORK TO INCREASE PRODUCTIVITY”

Fahrettin Poyraz, Common Supervisor of Agricultural Credit score Cooperatives, mentioned that Agricultural Credit score Cooperatives is Turkey’s largest farmer group.

Stating that they’re making efforts to supply the agricultural inputs that the farmers want, Poyraz mentioned, “On the different hand, we took accountability for the processing, operation and transportation of the produced product to the market, and we’re growing these obligations day-to-day. Growing its obligations each earlier than and after manufacturing, Tarım Kredi additionally doesn’t hesitate to extend its obligations throughout manufacturing. We connect nice significance to discipline coaching of our farmers in explicit. “We personally carry out severe coaching actions to extend effectivity in the discipline. Alongside with coaching actions, we even have efforts to extend the effectivity and intensive use of expertise.” mentioned.

“HOW CAN WE CARRY EFFICIENCY ADVANCE, WE ARE WORKING ON IT”

Pointing out that they began spraying trials with ZİHAs from Samsun, Poyraz continued as follows:

“We began the efforts to increase ZIHA in Turkey in the paddy discipline in Samsun. At present, we’re serving Turkey with 30 ZIHAs, which were bought with the assist of our Ministry and with the assist of TARNET and ARDSI.

Research were carried out on 20 completely different merchandise in 15 completely different cities in Turkey. In different phrases, once we use this instrument, we’re engaged on how we will enhance effectivity in comparison with regular classical strategies. These instruments are multi-use, however while you take a look at them in phrases of price, they’re very pricey, however I consider that as manufacturing will increase in the future, the prices will go down. Since we’re conscious of the difficulties of our farmers to bear these prices alone, we wished the cooperatives to bear the prices. Our farmers ought to come to our cooperatives once they wish to spray their merchandise, and meet their wants by making an appointment.”

”90% SAVINGS ON WATER USE”

Pointing out that they’re carrying out a spraying trial with ZİHA on 20 merchandise, Poyraz pointed out that this technique saves as much as 90 p.c in water use and as much as 50 p.c in drug use.

“OVER 75 THOUSAND PEOPLE HAVE EMPLOYMENT”

Deputy Chairman of ARDSI, Muhammed Adak, defined that they’re working to diversify the financial actions in the agriculture and meals sector and rural growth.

Pointing out that as ARDSI, they’ve signed grant agreements with 20 thousand 265 undertaking homeowners with a complete funding quantity of 15.7 billion liras since 2011, Adak mentioned:

“We paid 5.8 billion liras in grant assist to those tasks. Thanks to those tasks, severe and constructive steps have been taken in the agricultural sector. Whereas funding of 11.5 billion liras has been made in rural areas, employment of over 75 thousand individuals has been supplied. 69 p.c of the supported tasks are our youth. , 28 p.c of that are ladies, I feel that the tasks carried out by ARDSI are necessary for the way forward for the sector.

8 agricultural drones were bought by cooperatives in Samsun. 65 p.c of the drones with a complete undertaking price of 1.6 million TL were lined by ARDSI. The world to be sprayed with drone will embody roughly 65 thousand decares and 75 villages. A very powerful advantage of this undertaking is that it units an instance for our producers in different areas of our nation.”

”WE BELIEVE IT WILL PROVIDE SERIOUS ADVANTAGE”

TARNET Common Supervisor Huzeyfe Yılmaz, on the different hand, underlined that on account of TARNET’s initiatives, agricultural drones have began to be evaluated as agricultural equipment.

Emphasizing that they consider in Turkey’s nationwide expertise transfer, Yılmaz mentioned:

“We try to deliver the nationwide expertise transfer in agriculture to the agenda of Turkey with our many tasks. We at the moment are at the service of our farmers with certainly one of them, an agricultural unmanned aerial car. Spraying with ZIHA is mirrored in human well being, water and drugs financial savings, time saving, prevention of product crushing and prices in comparison with standard strategies.

No matter you name the most effective expertise answer of the future in agriculture, I’d say ‘ZIHA’ with out hesitation. For the first time in our nation, we witnessed spraying with the use of multiple ZIHA. We consider that it’ll present a severe benefit, particularly in the spraying of enormous lands.”

Samsun Governor Zülkif Dağlı, Metropolitan Mayor Mustafa Demir, deputies and producers attended the program.