Rice Direct Seeded Rice DSR Sowing
10x faster than manual, save 30% water vs puddled
Mission briefing
Rice Direct Seeded Rice DSR Sowing sits in the planting stage of the crop cycle. It runs on a xag p100 seeder / t40 seeder carrying seeder air blower, and in Bihar the window is jun 10-30 kharif at a frequency of 1x. Expect roughly 8ha/hr per sortie, and stand the drone down outside the wind <6m/s, no rain envelope — flying past it wastes chemical and risks drift onto neighbouring plots. Readings are interpreted through NA, so the payload has to output those bands rather than plain RGB. 10x faster than manual, save 30% water vs puddled On a easy-difficulty mission like this, the cost driver is not the drone — it is the number of return trips and the pilot hours around them, which is what the payback maths on the economics page turns on.
What you need
- Payload
- Seeder air blower
- Drone class
- XAG P100 seeder / T40 seeder
- Vegetation indices
- NA
When to fly (Bihar)
- Timing
- Jun 10-30 Kharif
- Frequency
- 1x
- Coverage
- 8ha/hr
- Weather envelope
- Wind <6m/s, No rain
Drones that run this mission
What this pass costs to buy in
Custom-hire rates operators actually charge for seeding work. Use these as the benchmark before you decide whether to own a drone or hire one for rice direct seeded rice dsr sowing.
| State | Job | ₹/acre | ₹/ha |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bihar | DSR Seeding | ₹800 | ₹1976 |
Before you fly this mission
- DGCA rules for agricultural flying →
Green-zone limits, 120 m ceiling and the paperwork a spray sortie needs.
- Kisan Drone subsidy 2026 →
Up to 100% support for FPOs and CHCs buying the drone that runs this pass.
- Agri drone price list India →
What the machines capable of this mission cost, ex-showroom.
- Pilot licence cost & RPTO list →
You cannot fly this commercially without a DGCA remote pilot certificate.