Expensive Batteries Ground Government’s Drone Didi Scheme
Hello guys, as you have read my other blogs this one would be different and close to my heart from others because, I interviewed some real people on the scheme of drone didi, which captivates me to explore more about the scheme. I was eager to learn about the people and meet them in real life for the first time. In this blog, I share what I learned about the scheme In the quiet village of Onambakkam in Tamil Nadu’s Chengalpattu district, D. Muniyammal (36), a farmer, had high hopes of using drones to spray fertiliser, reduce labour costs, and double her monthly income from her 4-acre land. Muniyammal’s hopes stood ground when she learned about the Namo Drone Didi scheme while purchasing pesticides from Fertilisers and Chemicals Travancore Limited (FACT), a fertiliser supplier company. She had an opportunity to use drones to make fertiliser dispersion more efficient and increase crop production in her rice farm. The Drone Didi initia...