Aligning with the objectives of the Government of India to promote the scope of drone usage in the country, the Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) and the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) have granted conditional exemption to Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University (PJTSAU) to use drones. The conditional exemption is valid till 16th March 2022 … Read more
Prof. Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University – Marut Drones Pvt Ltd, Hyderabad jointly signed an MoU for pilot training program to be undertaken by “PJTSAU Drone academy”. In particular, the Agricultural University has drawn up specific standards for spraying pesticides with drones in 7 major crops of the state over the last three years. As … Read more
The collaboration is working on developing SOP for using drones to spray pesticides, for which field work is being taken up across Telangana. Using a drone to spray pesticides is not permitted in the country, despite the fact that it saves the kisan from exposing himself to the toxic chemicals. A main reason cited for this … Read more
Chairman of the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) Govindarajulu Chintala visited Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University (PJTSAU) here on Tuesday. He visited several wings of the university. According to university officials, the NABARD chairman first visited the AgriHub innovation centre and interacted with representatives of the start-up companies and Vice Chancellor … Read more
Drone Technology is useful for Agriculture and will benefit Farmers: Shri Narendra Singh Tomar. The adoption of drone technology is the need of the times and will benefit farmers. Stating this during the release of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for drone application in Agriculture, the Union Minister Shri Narendra Singh Tomar said that under the leadership … Read more
KVK, Kampasagar organized and conducted Awareness Programme and Field Demonstration on Agricultural Drones Project at Guntupally (V), Thripuraram(M), Nalgonda Dist on 21st December, 2022.
A demonstration cum farmers awareness programme on “Pesticide spraying with Drone” was organized by Dr. A.V. Ramanjaneyulu, Sr. Scientist (Agro.) & Head, Dr. N. Sainath, Scientist (SSAC) and Smt. D. Swetha, Scientist (Agro.) from ARS, Tornala on 08-10-2021, at Ibrahimpur, Narayanraopet mandal, Siddipet district. Mr. J. Vijay, Coordinator, DAATTC, Tornala, Mr. M. Nagarjuna, AEO, Ibrahimpur … Read more
As a part of training and capacity building programmes to farmers and rural youth under NABARD-PJTSAU-Drone-DSR Project, a farmer training cum field demonstration of drone spraying in DSR was organized by Institute of Rice Research, ARI, Rajendranagar at RARS, Warangal in collaboration with DAATTC, Warangal on 24.11.2022. A total of 70 farmers and agricultural diploma … Read more
The Secretary of the Department of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare of India, Shri Manoj Ahuja, visited Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University on Saturday. M. Raghunandanrao, the Incharge Vice Chancellor of PJTSAU & Secretary of the Department of Agriculture of Telangana, accompanied him. Dr Sudheerkumar, the Registrar of PJTSAU and Dr R. Jagadeeshwar, the Director … Read more
