hyderabad
The Director Common of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has accredited the Drone Academy at Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural College (PJTSAU). This paves method for establishing a Distant Pilot Coaching Organisation (RPTO) to offer agri-drone pilot coaching to farmers, diploma holders, agri-graduates and unemployed rural youth with the collaboration of Marut Dronetech Personal Ltd for a interval of 10 years.
In keeping with the college officers, PJTSAU has been engaged on the event of crop-specific Customary Working Protocols (SOPs) for the drone-based pesticide spraying for seven main crops in Telangana – paddy, cotton, pigeonpea (redgram), groundnut (peanut), soybean, sesame (gingelly) and safflower.
Detailed data on the event of crop-specific SOPs for drone-based spraying of pesticides in main area crops was submitted to the Nationwide Committee within the Ministry of Agriculture. Holding in view the agri-domain experience of the college on drones, the DGCA has accorded permission to the PJTSAU Drone Academy for the advantage of the farming neighborhood within the State.
The officers acknowledged that the academy can be operational quickly within the outdated SABM constructing on the college’s campus right here. The proposed agri-drone pilot coaching course can be provided for six days masking the elements referring to drone piloting, operational security, threat evaluation, DGCA guidelines and laws and crop particular SOPs amongst others.
It could be the primary of its sort unique agriculture domain-specific drone pilot coaching institute and it could guarantee the event of expert human sources for the usage of drones in agriculture and allied fields. It could additionally pave the best way for the institution of buyer hiring facilities (CHCs) by agri-graduates, farmer-producer organisations (FPOs), ladies self-help teams, rural entrepreneurs and would create new employment avenues.