Plant protection drone pilot training starts at the end of January in Szarvas
Plant protection drone pilot training will start on January 30 in Szarvas in cooperation with the Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences (MATE) and ABZ Drone Kft., the higher education institution told MTI.

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By obtaining the professional qualification, it is possible to carry out plant protection monitoring and plant protection treatments with a drone. The training topics not only include plant protection, GIS, legal and aviation knowledge, but are also supplemented with drone applications related to the protection of critical infrastructures and vital systems taught by the MATE Szent István Security Research Center. The theoretical training and the computerized GIS workstations will take place in the Irrigation Development Demonstration Farm and Training Center of MATE, which was handed over on Tuesday, in the area of the Fisheries Research Institute (HAKI) in Szarvas.
There are quite a few people interested in the gap-filling training, Rector Csaba Gyuricza said at the presentation of the investment
“A university has never participated in plant protection drone pilot training to this extent together with a market partner,” he noted. Gyula Török, managing director of ABZ Drone Kft., said in a statement issued by the university about the training that this is the first plant protection drone pilot training in the Southern Great Plain region, which can host up to 250 students annually. The company has been dealing with the agricultural use of drones for seven years and has trained more than 500 drone pilots so far. Project manager Csaba Bozán, head of MATE’s Irrigation and Water Management Research Center, told MTI that the graduated drone pilots will be able to evaluate the data they record, so they can “take a step in the direction of precision management”. For which, of course, ground-level data is also needed – he noted.
Today, the role of drones is indisputable; their use in agriculture, construction industry, safety technology, as well as law and order and civil protection are all of the utmost importance, therefore the market value of the knowledge that can be acquired during the training is also extraordinary – the university announced.
MTI
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