Women were trained to fly drones and assisted in obtaining a Remote Pilot Certificate through a Remote Pilot Training Organisation (RPTO), formally qualifying them as drone pilots.
Vasantha is among 25 rural women from across India who formed the first cohort of the FlySakhi – Drone Queens of Bharat programme and received their certificates at a valedictory session at TiHAN, IIT Hyderabad, on Thursday. The minimum qualification for the programme is class 10 and admits women who wish to continue to live in rural India. But I can also earn about Rs 200 per acre by spraying pesticides on other farms. I can now do that in 15 minutes,” the . The 47-year-old added.
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I feel like I’ve landed an aeroplane,” she told TOI, excited at the prospect of putting her new skills to use in her agricultural fields. To see that the same can be done using a drone with much less effort felt game-changing,” said Vasantha, who was raised by a single, argiculturalist mother and understands the struggles of the profession. Like her, the “Empowering Women Entrepreneurs through Agricultural Drone Technology” programme at the institute aims to train several other rural women not just as drone operators but also as owners of rural drone-service enterprises. The women said that the training would not only help them but also allow them to support others in their communities. We were told that drones can be bought at a subsidised price,” said Anitha Sanjay Ghogre, a farmer, confessing that she was initially apprehensive about travelling to Hyderabad for the training. The women said their skills could be used for purposes beyond agricultural spraying, including assisting the police with surveillance, recording events and supporting disaster response.
Hyderabad: An opportunity to stand on her own feet and earn a livelihood. Married off soon after graduation, Vasantha, a resident of Gattu Ippalapalle in Talakondapally mandal of Ranga Reddy district, never imagined she would ever get an opportunity to work. But now that she can land a drone, her joy knows no bounds. As part of the programme, the women were trained to fly drones and assisted in obtaining a Remote Pilot Certificate through a Remote Pilot Training Organisation (RPTO), formally qualifying them as drone pilots. “I always used to feel that my education was of no use as I never stepped out to work. Now, landing a drone makes me so happy. “I can for sure use it on my farm back in our village in Maharashtra. But now, she is glad she took the step. “It takes at least two hours to spray pesticides on one acre. FlySakhi is led by the World Cooperation Economic Forum (WCOOPEF) and the Confederation of NGOs of Rural India (CNRI), with TiHAN–IIT Hyderabad as its technology partner and Syngenta India Pvt Ltd as its CSR partner. The initiative brings together cooperatives, civil society, academia, industry, research institutions and development finance to empower women to play a role in India’s agricultural transformation. Download the TOI App.
“Earlier, we three sisters used to carry a machine on our backs to spray pesticides.