Mr. Huynh Tan Dat, Deputy Director of the Plant Protection Department, speaks at the meetingThe Plant Protection Department under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Vietnam CropLife Association have just organized a workshop on Drone/ unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) Pesticide Application: Sharing Practices – Regulatory frameworks in APAC and Adoption Roadmap in Vietnam. Meeting participants gave comments on the draft of grassroots standards on testing pesticides by UAVs.
The test results are the basis for the Plant Protection Department to develop a draft of grassroots standards on testing pesticides by UAVs, based on regulations and suggestions from 15 organizations, associations, individuals, experts, and the country’s actual conditions.
In addition to updates on the current status of application and management of UAVs/drones in the agricultural sector in the Asia-Pacific region, the information from the workshop also outlined the benefits and…
