Aquaculture Shrimp Feeding Zone Monitoring

Mission briefing

Aquaculture Shrimp Feeding Zone Monitoring sits in the special stage of the crop cycle. It runs on a mavic 3m carrying rgb, and in Bihar the window is year round at a frequency of weekly. Expect roughly 100ha/hr per sortie, and stand the drone down outside the morning envelope — flying past it wastes chemical and risks drift onto neighbouring plots. Readings are interpreted through RGB, so the payload has to output those bands rather than plain RGB. Feeding zone waste detection 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

RGB

Drone class

Mavic 3M

Vegetation indices

RGB

When to fly (Bihar)

Timing

Year round

Frequency

Weekly

Coverage

100ha/hr

Weather envelope

Morning

Drones that run this mission

What this pass costs to buy in

Custom-hire rates operators actually charge for scouting work. Use these as the benchmark before you decide whether to own a drone or hire one for aquaculture shrimp feeding zone monitoring.

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 special missions

• Sugarcane Sett Counting & GrowthAG25