玉米育种者收获无人机的好处

[HARARE] Using drone技术项目的初步发现显示，可以将玉米育种数据的劳动和成本减少至少百分之十。

与需求增加广告更好的种子apt tochanging climate, breeders have turned to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) also known as drones for precise gathering ofdata从该领域，在南部大部分地区可以使更有效的玉米繁殖。

“如果您查看大面积，使用无人机收集数据可能是一种有效的方法。”

Eric Yirenkyi Danquah, West Africa Centre for Crop Improvements

The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) in Southern Africa has adopted UAVs to collect data as a critical part of successful breeding programme.

津巴布韦南部非洲地区办事处的国际玉米和小麦改善中心（CIMMYT）的玉米生理学家Mainassara Abdou Zaman-Allah说，使用UAVS促进了即时数据收集，并增加了无人机，可以从1000个地块中收集数据在十分钟或更短的时间内可能需要八个小时才能手动进行操作。

扎曼·阿拉（Zaman-Allah）说：“在我们进行的初步分析中，我们意识到，使用无人机技术，我们将分别花费10％或更少的劳动和成本上的花费。”

扎曼·阿拉（Zaman-Allah）告诉scidev.netin an interview on 8 February that preliminary analysis shows that greater savings could result if sensors with higher resolution are used.

扎曼·阿拉（Zaman-Allah）补充说：“ 2013年首次测试，现已在东部和南部非洲，拉丁美洲和亚洲的Cimmyt中使用无人机。”

据植物遗传学家兼加纳大学西非作物改善中心主任埃里克·伊伦基（Eric Yirenkyi Danquah）表示，许多非洲国家没有训练过植物育种者进行有效的作物育种，这使得非洲迫切需要非洲建立人类能力开发主食。

丹说技术不会取代人类data collection, and thus it is urgent that Africa trains more plant breeders and field technicians needed to develop improved varieties of the staple crops to boost productivity in farmers’ fields.

An increase in commercial农业as markets develop will attract multinational agricultural businesses to Africa that will rely on large crop breeding programmes, which Africa currently does not have, Danquah explains.

“This will call for technology and UAVs will certainly have a role to play in the future,” says Danquah. “The use of drones to collect data may be an efficient way if you look at large acreages. So as field sizes increase, more efficient and effective ways [of data collection] will be needed.”

This piece was produced by SciDev.Net’s Sub-Saharan Africa English desk.