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Kathleen Martin
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62-year-old Vietnamese farmer Le Thanh Nguyen is one of the earliest farmers in Vietnam to adopt agricultural drones in rice production.
Le Thanh Nguyen grows rice in the Tam Nong District of the Dong Thap Province. Over the past 40 years, he has been farming in the traditional way. Recently however, the Vietnamese grower decided to use drones, spurred on by an ever-increasing labour shortage.
Labour issues
Le Thanh Nguyen grows rice in the Tam Nong District of the Dong Thap Province. He recently started using drones. – Photo: XAG
Like many other farmers, Le Thanh Nguyen used to have difficulties hiring workers for manual jobs. During the busy rice season, his workers were supposed to come in the early morning to sow seeds for his rice field, but very often they arrived at the late afternoon. By that time, the seeds had germinated, and the shoots were easily broken during spreading and therefore caused yield loss.
And when his workers did arrive on time, Le was often not satisfied with the results of seeding by hand or spreader. The seeding wasn’t done precise enough and as a result, the plant density was not optimal.
Continue reading: https://www.futurefarming.com/tech-in-focus/drones/vietnamese-farmer-adopts-drones-in-rice-farming/
Le Thanh Nguyen grows rice in the Tam Nong District of the Dong Thap Province. Over the past 40 years, he has been farming in the traditional way. Recently however, the Vietnamese grower decided to use drones, spurred on by an ever-increasing labour shortage.
Labour issues
Le Thanh Nguyen grows rice in the Tam Nong District of the Dong Thap Province. He recently started using drones. – Photo: XAG
Like many other farmers, Le Thanh Nguyen used to have difficulties hiring workers for manual jobs. During the busy rice season, his workers were supposed to come in the early morning to sow seeds for his rice field, but very often they arrived at the late afternoon. By that time, the seeds had germinated, and the shoots were easily broken during spreading and therefore caused yield loss.
And when his workers did arrive on time, Le was often not satisfied with the results of seeding by hand or spreader. The seeding wasn’t done precise enough and as a result, the plant density was not optimal.
Continue reading: https://www.futurefarming.com/tech-in-focus/drones/vietnamese-farmer-adopts-drones-in-rice-farming/