ACETI organized, in cooperation with the company Dron Agro Assistance, a master class in the framework of the project “Edu – Tech – Agro – Nord – Agricultural Technology Education for the North”. The activity took place on December 18th at the Agro-Industrial College of Riscani.
The event was entitled “The use of UAV technologies in performance agriculture. Realities and Perspectives” and gathered more than 20 participants, mostly students and teachers of the college, who had the opportunity to see live some of the most performing agricultural UAVs and to attend information sessions about their working capabilities and the interconnection of several types of UAVs for even higher performance of agricultural processes.
Mircea Petic, Executive Director of ACETI, addressed the participants of the event with a word of greeting, emphasizing the importance of using innovative technologies for a performing agriculture and increasing the level of training of those who do agriculture, and also gave details about the objectives of the project “Edu – Tech – Agro – Nord”.
A key moment of the master class was the presentation of the capabilities and ways of using multispectral drones, which allow a detailed analysis of crops and land to assess their condition and accurately forecast the need for some or other work.
The tutorial presented by the founder of Dron Agro Assistance, Vitalie Sacara, familiarized the participants with all the stages of working with multispectral drones in agriculture, starting from the preparation of the flight carrying it out in conditions of maximum safety and efficiency, processing the collected data with the help of specialized software solutions and interpreting them for the most accurate assessment of the existing situation.
The speaker of the event encouraged the young participants to become UAV pilots, given the current shortage of such specialists on the agricultural market of the Republic of Moldova, as well as the prospects of choosing such a profession, including salary prospects.
In turn, the students showed an active interest in the subject and asked numerous questions about the functioning of agricultural drones and the steps they would have to take to become fully-fledged pilots.
The project “Edu – Tech – Agro – Nord – Agricultural Technology Education for the North” is funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID Moldova) through the The Rural Competitiveness and Resilience Activity (RCRA) and is implemented by ACETI, in collaboration with development partners.
