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An army of drones deployed to fight a crop-devouring pest in a southern area of China has recorded a mortality rate of as high as 98 percent, according to the manufacturer.
XAG, a Guangzhou-based drone maker, teamed up with Germany’s Bayer Crop Science in a drone swarm operation to kill the fall armyworm in China’s Guangxi region. The autonomous devices, loaded with low-toxicity insecticide, have also managed the pests in a government-led operation in the southwest province of Yunnan, XAG said. “It is the ‘crop-devouring monster’ that attacks over 80 crop varieties,†XAG said.