Page 14 - Agric Info Newsletter 02 2017

The Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Transforma-
tion, Forestry and Fisheries in collaboration with
the Taiwanese Technical Mission conducted a
Demonstration on the Use of an Unmanned Aerial
Vehicle (UAV) or Drone for Field Crop Survey.
This Demonstration was done in the Marriaqua
Valley, Greiggs, South Rivers, Orange Hill, Ra-
bacca and Langley Park from Monday 7th –
Thursday 10th August 2017.

This activity forms part of the Ministry’s efforts
to assess technologies which will strengthen, its
Geographical Information System (GIS) capabili-
ties to more precisely forecast agricultural pro-
duction, manage forestry resources as well as con-
duct more precise storm damage assessments fol-
lowing the passage of tropical systems. L-R- Hon Carlos James Speaker of the House of Assembly,
Jerry Liao - Chief of the Taiwanese Technical Mission,
H.E Baushuan Ger - Taiwanese Ambassador to SVG and
After the UAV demonstration, they went on to Hon. Saboto Caesar - Minister of Agriculture
have a Workshop on Field Crop Survey and
Methodology, which included the requirements of
Field Survey Technology, Image Processing, Re-
port Preparation, The application of UAV – Ae-
rial photographing and 3S in Field Crop Survey,
which was held at Computec in Kingstown from
th
Friday 11 – Monday 14th August 2017.

Participants of the workshop .

The demonstration and workshop targeted the
following participants – GIS Officers from the
Forestry Department and the GIS Unit, Ministry
of Housing, Agricultural Extension Officers from
the Extension and Advisory Services and Officers
and Data Collectors from the Agricultural Plan-
ning Unit, Lands and Surveys Department and
the Ministry of Economic Planning.

Ambassador of Taiwan H.E Baushuan Ger presenting
drone captured data to Mr. Winston George, head of the
communications unit in the Ministry of Agriculture.