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00:00Can you tell us more about the spray technique that you have developed for spraying in the gardens?
00:07Earlier, when there was spraying in the gardens, you would see a man carrying a sprayer,
00:14and he would spray, and there would be a drum behind him.
00:17It would take a lot of time to spray in the big gardens.
00:22After that, what happened was, to increase the speed of the spraying,
00:27mechanical sprayers came.
00:29And a mechanical sprayer is the one with a factor.
00:32There is a big 1,000 litre tank behind it,
00:35and it sprays with mechanical pressure.
00:38But that technique was not intelligent.
00:42It would spray where it was supposed to,
00:46but it would also spray where it was not needed.
00:49So what we did was, I have been working in LADAR technology since 2003.
00:54We have done a lot of work in this.
00:56By using LADAR technology, we have given intelligence to this mechanical sprayer.
01:02Our LADAR sensors first generate data, which we call data.
01:09And our computer algorithms, on the basis of that data,
01:12know where there are trees and where there are no trees.
01:15And this information, where there are trees, we communicate to the sprayer.
01:20Now the sprayer will spray where it is needed.
01:25Otherwise, it will not spray.
01:27Sir, where has this been trialled?
01:29Has it been done by any ministry?
01:30First of all, we did its trial in our IT Kanpur,
01:32on a small robot called Husky.
01:34That was the first prototype.
01:36We did the second prototype in Sonepat.
01:38We did that with our industry partners.
01:41Thirdly, this trial has been going on in IT Kanpur for the last 10 days.
01:46Now, in the next three months,
01:48we are going to do its trial in the fields of different farmers.
01:51So this will be a UP farm?
01:53This will be a UP farm, a Haryana farm, a Maharashtra farm.
01:57It will be at this place.
01:58Haryana and Maharashtra farms.
01:59Okay.
02:00As you said, in the next three months,
02:02this production will start.
02:04This is our attempt.
02:05And a farmer will spend at least Rs. 50,000 to Rs. 60,000.
02:08We feel that when we make it in volume,
02:10we will make the entire prototype of the technology
02:13and give it to our industry partners.
02:15And then they will manufacture it.
02:17So we feel that in the next three to four months,
02:19we will start giving it to the farmers.
02:22The farmers have already shown interest in it.
02:24They want to buy it.
02:25Okay.
02:26So we will start giving it to the farmers.
02:27Have you spoken to the farmers?
02:28Have you given the data and feedback?
02:29Yes, we have spoken to the farmers.
02:31We are now testing it in the farmers' farm.
02:33Okay.
02:34We will make four prototypes like this.
02:37Okay.
02:38And those four prototypes will be tested simultaneously in four places.
02:40Okay.
02:41We will take the farmers' feedback in that.
02:42Okay.
02:43And one thing I have not told you about this technology yet
02:45is that its complete control is through an app.
02:47Okay.
02:48So through an app,
02:49and when it works,
02:51it will make a map of the entire field.
02:53Okay.
02:54So the farmers will know
02:55how many areas have been sprayed
02:57and how many have not been sprayed.
02:58Okay.
02:59And where to start spraying in the future.
03:01In which countries in the world
03:02is this LADAR technology similarity being used?
03:05LADAR technology is a very old technology.
03:08As I said, I have been working since 2002.
03:10And the use of LADAR technology to make intelligent sprayers,
03:13some people have tried to start it in the last one or two years.
03:17In some countries.
03:18Yes.
03:19And what we are doing is
03:20a uniqueness.
03:21Yes.
03:22That is to reduce its cost.
03:23Okay.
03:24So in this, end-to-end system design,
03:26end-to-end PCB writing,
03:28we have done all this at our end.
03:30Okay.
03:31Because in India,
03:32it is very important to reduce the cost.
03:34Yes.
03:35We cannot sell an expensive system.
03:37Yes.
03:38So by reducing the cost,
03:39but effective.
03:40Yes.
03:41It will still affect.
03:42So how much life will be left
03:43if a farmer takes it once?
03:44So now we feel that we have not done much work on life,
03:47but we feel that the system we are making is a record system.
03:49Yes.
03:50And once a farmer takes it,
03:51then the system should work for the next 3-4 years.
03:54After that, replacement will be needed.
03:56Okay, sir.