Maybe its time for XAG to lend a few drone to the locust fight in the Horn of Africa?
In news that should surprise no one, agricultural drone manufacturer XAG has discovered that drones can be an answer to the virulent locust …
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Drones to help map out small scale cashew nut farms in Benin
COTONOU (BENIN) – International non-profit developmental organisation, TechnoServe and technology platform Alteia have announced a partner…
Niger's Kountche has big plans for West African drone community
It is not every day that you find a former president’s grandchild staying in the national headlines for reasons that have nothing to do wi…
FAA approves first fully autonomous commercial drone flights in the USA
MASSACHUSETTS – They might be mean to Chinese made drones, but the Federal Aviation Administration in the USA seem to be warming up really…
Cattle-herding drone?
In her presentation at this year’s DJI Airworks 2020 Conference, South African based drone professional, Louise Jupp gave her opinions on …
New agriculture drones from XAG
GUANGZHOU – Chinese agriculture technology company XAG have announced the launch of a trio of agricultural drones and related software tec…
Delta Drone SA, ParaZero complete merger
The announcement has been long in coming, but Delta Drone South Africa – a drone-based aerial mining solutions company – has finally com…
Missed it by that much: drone start-up narrowly beaten to top entrepreneur prize
He beat competition when applications were in their thousands, and did it again when they were trimmed down to fifty, then to twenty, and to…
More drones for the locust fight in Ethiopia
Reeling from the conflict between government forces and fighters from the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), people from Ethiopia’…
What should Africa do to win the Game of Drones?
The just ended Drones and Unmanned Aviation Conference 2021 had experts covering various issues that included the legislative and regulatory…
Drone-based crop monitoring for African banana farms
A new research has been published in which researchers has demonstrated the success of drone, mobile phone and machine learning technology t…
Fight still rages against locust invasion
Two years after the world learned of the worst desert locust infestation that has wreaked havoc in Africa and Asia in many years, countries …