Aerial crop protection operations launched for disease prevention in China’s Heilongjiang

An aerial drone photo taken on July 14, 2026 shows an agricultural plane carrying out aerial crop protection operations over a field of Beidahuang Group in northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province. China’s northern regions have entered a critical period for the prevention and control of crop diseases and pests. Various agricultural production units under Beidahuang Group in Heilongjiang Province have launched aerial crop protection operations over farmlands in succession, ensuring sound crop growth. (Photo by Huang Yongxing/Xinhua)

A drone photo taken on July 14, 2026 shows a drone carrying out plant protection operations over a field of Beidahuang Group in northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province. China’s northern regions have entered a critical period for the prevention and control of crop diseases and pests. Various agricultural production units under Beidahuang Group in Heilongjiang Province have launched aerial crop protection operations over farmlands in succession, ensuring sound crop growth. (Photo by Xu Yingxian/Xinhua)

This photo taken on July 13, 2026 shows a drone carrying out plant protection operations over a corn field of Beidahuang Group in northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province. China’s northern regions have entered a critical period for the prevention and control of crop diseases and pests. Various agricultural production units under Beidahuang Group in Heilongjiang Province have launched aerial crop protection operations over farmlands in succession, ensuring sound crop growth. (Photo by Ren Baoji/Xinhua)

An aerial drone photo taken on July 14, 2026 shows an agricultural plane carrying out aerial crop protection operations over a paddy field of Beidahuang Group in northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province. China’s northern regions have entered a critical period for the prevention and control of crop diseases and pests. Various agricultural production units under Beidahuang Group in Heilongjiang Province have launched aerial crop protection operations over farmlands in succession, ensuring sound crop growth. (Photo by Wang Jinbin/Xinhua)

An aerial drone photo taken on July 14, 2026 shows an agricultural plane carrying out aerial crop protection operations over a field of Beidahuang Group in northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province. China’s northern regions have entered a critical period for the prevention and control of crop diseases and pests. Various agricultural production units under Beidahuang Group in Heilongjiang Province have launched aerial crop protection operations over farmlands in succession, ensuring sound crop growth. (Photo by Li Xing/Xinhua)

This photo taken on July 13, 2026 shows an agricultural plane carrying out aerial crop protection operations over a field of Beidahuang Group in northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province. China’s northern regions have entered a critical period for the prevention and control of crop diseases and pests. Various agricultural production units under Beidahuang Group in Heilongjiang Province have launched aerial crop protection operations over farmlands in succession, ensuring sound crop growth. (Photo by Li Xing/Xinhua)

An aerial drone photo taken on July 14, 2026 shows an agricultural plane carrying out aerial crop protection operations over a field of Beidahuang Group in northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province. China’s northern regions have entered a critical period for the prevention and control of crop diseases and pests. Various agricultural production units under Beidahuang Group in Heilongjiang Province have launched aerial crop protection operations over farmlands in succession, ensuring sound crop growth. (Photo by Huang Yongxing/Xinhua)

This photo taken on July 14, 2026 shows a drone carrying out plant protection operations over a corn field of Beidahuang Group in northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province. China’s northern regions have entered a critical period for the prevention and control of crop diseases and pests. Various agricultural production units under Beidahuang Group in Heilongjiang Province have launched aerial crop protection operations over farmlands in succession, ensuring sound crop growth. (Photo by Lu Wenxiang/Xinhua)

A drone photo taken on July 14, 2026 shows a drone carrying out plant protection operations over a field of Beidahuang Group in northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province. China’s northern regions have entered a critical period for the prevention and control of crop diseases and pests. Various agricultural production units under Beidahuang Group in Heilongjiang Province have launched aerial crop protection operations over farmlands in succession, ensuring sound crop growth. (Photo by Xu Yingxian/Xinhua)

An aerial drone photo taken on July 14, 2026 shows a plane carrying out aerial crop protection operations over a field of Beidahuang Group in northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province. China’s northern regions have entered a critical period for the prevention and control of crop diseases and pests. Various agricultural production units under Beidahuang Group in Heilongjiang Province have launched aerial crop protection operations over farmlands in succession, ensuring sound crop growth. (Photo by Li Ang/Xinhua)

This photo taken on July 14, 2026 shows an agricultural plane carrying out aerial crop protection operations over a paddy field of Beidahuang Group in northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province. China’s northern regions have entered a critical period for the prevention and control of crop diseases and pests. Various agricultural production units under Beidahuang Group in Heilongjiang Province have launched aerial crop protection operations over farmlands in succession, ensuring sound crop growth. (Photo by Wang Jinbin/Xinhua)

A drone photo taken on July 13, 2026 shows a drone carrying out plant protection operations over a corn field of Beidahuang Group in northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province. China’s northern regions have entered a critical period for the prevention and control of crop diseases and pests. Various agricultural production units under Beidahuang Group in Heilongjiang Province have launched aerial crop protection operations over farmlands in succession, ensuring sound crop growth. (Photo by Ren Baoji/Xinhua)

An aerial drone photo taken on July 14, 2026 shows an agricultural plane carrying out aerial crop protection operations over a paddy field of Beidahuang Group in northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province. China’s northern regions have entered a critical period for the prevention and control of crop diseases and pests. Various agricultural production units under Beidahuang Group in Heilongjiang Province have launched aerial crop protection operations over farmlands in succession, ensuring sound crop growth.

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Prof. Engr. Zamir Ahmed Awan Founder & Chair, Global Silk Route Research Alliance

Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…