GuyDrones on Friday donated a drone to GuySuCo to assist the corporation to identify and control sugarcane plant diseases.
At a handing over ceremony at GuySuCo’s aircraft hangar at Ogle, ECD, Chief Executive Officer of GuySuCo, Sasenarine Singh thanked GuyDrones for the donation and noted that the drone and its technology will go a long way to assist GuySuCo to secure the health of the sugarcane plants. According to Singh, the drone will take pictures of the sugarcane leaves; these will be analysed by GuySuCo’s plant scientists who will then be able to determine the presence and type of disease and overall, the health status of the plants. Singh reminded the gathering that this technology is currently in use by local rice farmers, but admitted that there is indeed “some catching up to do”.
