Fruit Counting Litchi Mango

Mission briefing

Fruit Counting Litchi Mango sits in the pre-harvest stage of the crop cycle. It runs on a m350 + h20 + ai carrying rgb 20mp + ai counting, and in Bihar the window is 30 days before harvest muzaffarpur at a frequency of 1x. Expect roughly 5ha/hr orchard per sortie, and stand the drone down outside the wind <6m/s envelope — flying past it wastes chemical and risks drift onto neighbouring plots. Readings are interpreted through AI fruit detection, so the payload has to output those bands rather than plain RGB. Count fruits per tree, 500 trees/day, schedule labour cold storage On a hard-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

RGB 20MP + AI counting

Drone class

M350 + H20 + AI

Vegetation indices

AI fruit detection

When to fly (Bihar)

Timing

30 days before harvest Muzaffarpur

Frequency

1x

Coverage

5ha/hr orchard

Weather envelope

Wind <6m/s

What this pass costs to buy in

Custom-hire rates operators actually charge for field work. Use these as the benchmark before you decide whether to own a drone or hire one for fruit counting litchi mango.

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.

Other pre-harvest missions

• Yield Estimation BiomassAG16
• Harvest Planning Lodging DetectionAG18