The International Agricultural Exhibition in Meknes is known for its advanced “drones” in the field of agriculture

The sixteenth session of the International Agricultural Exhibition in Meknes keeps pace with national agriculture’s bets regarding the development of technologies adopted in the agricultural sector, especially in the production stage, and for this purpose it provided a single pole concerned with “digital agriculture.” It is a new pole that was created to display the most prominent high-precision technologies aimed at increasing agricultural productivity.

The “digital agriculture” pole includes a number of companies producing modern agricultural technologies. Including companies specialized in marketing drones, which provide great opportunities to increase productivity and develop irrigation and treatment systems, as is the case in a number of countries in the world, especially in Europe and Asia.

What the directors of companies marketing “drones” confirmed to Hespress is that “interest in these new technologies among Moroccan farmers has begun to rise at the present time, especially with their desire to improve the productivity of their agricultural fields and save on used raw materials, including water.” “This provides the agriculture exhibition with a special forum for discussion.”

“Agricultural drones” contribute to the effective treatment of crops and the precise distribution of fertilizers and seeds. Given that it provides advanced systems in energy use and high-quality imaging, it also has distribution and spraying systems ranging between 40 and 50 kilograms, as well as systems dedicated to double spraying.

Yassin Qamous, director of a company specializing in drones, said, “Moroccan farmers have come to realize the importance of using drones, as this importance is represented in their effectiveness in the operations of treating agricultural fields and dispersing fertilizers and seeds, thus saving time and effort.”

Qamous explained, in a statement to Hespress, that “drones have a number of advantages in agricultural use, as they use water economically in the process of treating crops, unlike tractors, which still need about 600 liters of water.” This was demonstrated by a number of experiments that we conducted in a number of regions of the Kingdom.”

The company director added, “Today farmers are willing to rely on these new technologies that have advantages, whether from an economic standpoint by contributing to reducing water consumption or from a social standpoint, given that their use has led to a reduction in the rate of migration in the agricultural sector, noting that they enable the farmer To avoid direct contact with pesticides that affect health and have serious consequences for the health of farmers.”

The spokesman pointed out that “drones in the agricultural sector help in raising productivity, which directly leads to the creation of new job positions,” concluding: “As companies working in this field, we will continue this giving, while moving in the direction of increasing the rate of development of these mechanisms.”

For his part, Reda Al-Arbawi, director of a company that markets agricultural drones, focused on the positives of these drones, pointing out that they “enable farmers to reduce the percentage of water used in spraying medicines by about 90 percent, while they have tanks that hold about 40 liters.” “This enables it to treat about 100 hectares per day.”

Al-Arbawi explained, in a statement to Hespress, “the extent of the sudden shift in demand for these technologies, as demand was weak over the past years; While it has begun to rise during the current period, at a time when it remains an alternative to tractors for farmers,” he said, considering that “the role of companies specialized in this category is to democratize the benefit of these new technologies and adopt them in the agricultural field.”

The spokesman emphasized “the importance of the digital agriculture pole within the space of the International Agricultural Exhibition in Meknes, given that it provides an important opportunity for companies specialized in marketing drones to reach farmers.” “The farmers, in turn, were able to learn about the characteristics of this new technology, which is being used today in a number of European and Asian countries.”

He continued: “We try as much as possible to communicate with the farmers who visit us, and to clarify the nature of their agricultural productivity and the crop they produce. This is in order to try to guide them to technologies that can be an addition for them and help them develop production.”