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XAG reveals new agriculture drones

XAG reveals new generation drones for agriculture

Two new agricultural drones and two remote sensing drones produced by Chinese manufacturer XAG will debut in Australia in the second half of 2022, the company’s local arm has confirmed.

The company says the recent updates to its drone range not only expands XAG’s agriculture product lines, but also builds on previous models in terms of efficiency, precision and safety.

XAG Australia sales manager Bryce Dimec confirmed that the newly launched P100 and V40 agricultural drones, along with the M500 and M2000 remote sensing drones, would both arrive around the third and fourth quarters of 2022.


The XAG V40 agricultural drone operates with a broadcast system on board

Agricultural drones

The XAG P100 agricultural drone follows brand new principles from its structural design to task systems, inheriting the classical quadrotor structure with a 40kg effective payload.

Unlike previous autonomous drones, which relied on the RTK signal of a 4G network, the new SuperX 4 Pro flight control system means the XAG P100 can maintain steady, high- accuracy operation around farms even with weak internet infrastructure.

The drone is crafted in a way that can fully separate its flying platform from task systems, meaning it can switch flexibly between the function of crop spraying, granule spreading and field surveying. Transportation and maintenance are also made much easier to increase operational efficiency.

The XAG V40 has a tilting twin-rotor structure that concentrates its wind field and contributes to an effective spraying width of up to 10m.

“With multiple aerodynamic optimisations, its spray penetration is over twice that of traditional multi-rotor drone, making drops penetrate more precisely into dense crop canopies,” XAG says.

“This provides stronger protection against weeds, diseases and insect pests to close the yield gap.”

XAG has also upgraded the three task systems on the agricultural drones to further improve efficiency and precision in various application scenarios.

The XAG RevoSpray 2.0 system adopts rotary atomisation technology that allows fine droplets to be accurately sprayed between the size of 40–600μm, and therefore greatly cuts down on the use of pesticides.

The XAG RevoCast 2.0 system was redesigned with dual vertical centrifugal discs and a novel smart screw feeder, which can achieve a broadcast efficiency of 80kg of urea per minute.

With XAG RealTerra 2.0 as the mapping module, a drone can survey a maximum area of 13 hectares of farmland and orchards per trip. It supports real-time map stitching and can generate high-definition field map immediately once landing.


The P100 drone has a 40kg payload and can switch between crop spraying, granule spreading and field surveying

Sensing drones

XAG’s two new models of M series remote sensing drones, the M500 and M2000, will help address different field mapping needs in rural areas, giving farmers efficient ways to obtain field information and crop growth status for scientific decision-making.

The XAG M500 remote sensing drone follows the light and convenient foldable design of the previous XMission, supporting four types of gimbal cameras with different megapixels and wavebands to meet the need of quick farmland mapping and crop scouting.

By taking HD farmland images and generating digital field maps, the XAG M500 can help farm managers quantify field conditions and indicators of crop growth, including irrigation, germination rate, crop density and height, pest diseases and estimated crop yield.

Meanwhile, the XAG M2000 has been designed for large-scale and high-frequency farmland surveying.

This is XAG’s first-ever electric vertical take-off and landing fixed-wing flight platform that can be deployed at any spot and take off without site constraints.

Equipped with the intelligent fast charging battery, the XAG M2000 can fly up to 90 minutes in a single sortie and map an area of up to 533 hectares.

Autonomous farming

XAG has introduced its smart agriculture ecosystem into the real-world autonomous farms throughout the full cycle of crop cultivation.

In April 2021, XAG launched the Super Cotton Farm in Northwest China, where a 200-hectare cotton field was managed with the help of drones, robots and artificial intelligence. After the trial of one planting season, the XAG Super Cotton Field has reduced its labour costs by 60 per cent and used 36 per cent less pesticides compared to a traditional farm.

More recently, a Super Farm Project was launched by XAG at the end of 2021 in Guangzhou, China, with the aim of building an autonomous farm model that can be replicated and promoted in the future.

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