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Garuda Aerospace DGCA Approvals – DRONELIFE

Garuda Aerospace becomes 1st Drone company in history to get DGCA approvals for Type Certification and pilot training  Indian drone manufacturer, Garuda Aerospace is India’s first drone startup to receive both Type Certification and RTPO approvals from India’s Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) for their “Made in India” Kisan …

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Agras Spraying Drones – DRONELIFE

Drones are a major tool for agriculture, recognized by the World Bank and advocacy organizations around the world as a way of securing the global food supply.  In Asian countries and elsewhere, spraying drones are widely used to apply fertilizer, pesticides and other products for more efficient farming.  How are …

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Drones in Agriculture Sector 5 Ways Intelligent UAS

Zena Drone has helped revolutionize the burgeoning hemp industry.  In this guest post, Leah Jacobe outlines five ways that intelligent drones in the agriculture sector are helping growers to meet the demands of global food production. The following is a guest post by Leah Jacobe, Media Team Leader at Zena …

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AgEagle Acquires senseFly, Launches New Sensor

AgEagle Acquires senseFly, Launches New MicaSense Sensor by DRONELIFE Staff Writer Ian M. Crosby Industry leader AgEagle Aerial Systems Inc. and leading European drone group Parrot revealed in a joint announcement that they have signed an agreement under which AgEagle will acquire Parrot subsidiary senseFly in a cash and stock …

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DJI’s Agriculture Drone AGRAS T20

DJI’s agriculture drone for crop spraying, the DJI AGRAS T20, makes agricultural spraying easier, smarter, and safer. Crop spraying by drone, while not widely legal in the U.S., has been adopted elsewhere around the world.  As agricultural drones get easier to fly and ever more automated, crop spraying by drone …

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Giving Tomatoes Their Shots: The Future of Plant Medicine Ma…

Nobody likes getting a shot – but even plants might need them sometimes.  MIT researchers are exploring ways to administer injections to plants with drones. As described in the original article plants, much like people, get sick.  The treatment traditionally involves the spread of chemicals designed to mitigate or alleviate the …

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