Bananas hanging onto drones: See how the low-altitude economy matches with agriculture | PR Newswire [Video]

, /PRNewswire/ — A news report from China.org.cn on China’s low-altitude economy:

As sunset dawns upon the mountains, some drones are still shuttling assiduously. While, hanging onto them, are nothing but bundles of freshly picked bananas. The video of drones and the dangling bananas has gone viral on Chinese social media. Many netizens exclaimed: “So, this is how we use drones now?”

Actually, this is not the drones’ debut in China’s agriculture. Since the first commercial plant protection drone in 2010, drones have played an increasingly pivotal role in this field, most often shouldering protection work such as pesticide spraying, just like its initial role in agriculture. Huang Rixie, a farmer from Guangxiprovince tried drones for the first time last year for the end-to-end plant protection of his mangos, which turned out to be a pleasing experience: What used to take four days and six workers, was finished within one day by drones. Thanks to the precision …