Application

The three separate treatments can be applied as foliar sprays to the leaves of the macadamia trees. The most efficient and precise way to do this was by utilizing drone technology. The XAG drone was piloted by Jamin from Oztech Drones, fitted with a 16L payload deploying CDA nozzles, the drone was the perfect fit for our needs. 2.5L per tree gave excellent coverage and spraying the selected 6 trees at a time made easy work. The trees were initially mapped using another XAG drone fitted with cameras and GPS and the target tees were tagged in the corresponding shape file. This file was then used to direct the spray drone to its target and precisely administer the spray. As the drone returned to base once the task was completed, the spray drum and battery are swapped over and the new product is applied to the next set of trees.