Dropcopter is the first automated aerial pollination system in the world. We use drone aircraft to increase crop set while offsetting pollinator decline.
Most sweet #cherry varieties are self-unfruitful (self-incompatible, SI) and require cross pollination with another variety as the #pollen source. Some varieties, e.g. Bing, Lambert, Royal Ann...
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Some crops are already pollinated by machine or by hand, like date palm, or conifer trees for improved seed production. Dropcopter provides a scalable and efficient solution to these crops that are already anthropogenically pollinated.
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The timing of when crops produce pollen and when they are receptive to pollen can differ. Orchards are typically planted to have intentional overlap in pollenizer varieties and varieties that are usually higher value and don't produce as much pollen.
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Drone Agriculture? Let's start a company.
Our CEO & Founder @KoballMatt will be speaking at The Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania this Friday!
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@Dropcopter provides the potential to be selective during thinning efforts rather than wishing there was a more even distribution of fruits on the tree.
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@Dropcopter can help both short and long term efforts for bi-annual bearing crops: bolstering #fruit set during light years, which may reduce over-setting in the next year.
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