FarmGuard scans Zimbabwean farms with multispectral drones, tests the soil and water behind the imagery, and flies the treatment the data actually calls for — instead of spraying the whole block and hoping.
Planned block: parallel swaths at set overlap, buffer held off the watercourse, path closed back to the refill point.
Services
Scanning and spraying are the core of the work. Everything else exists so the spray goes on at the right rate, in the right place, at the right growth stage.
Main services
Multispectral imagery shows us the problem areas on your farm before they are visible from the ground. That imagery is what the herbicide drone reads to decide the appropriate treatment.
Herbicides, pesticides and fungicides applied by drone with accuracy a boom sprayer cannot match — no wheel tracks, no waiting for the soil to dry, no compaction.
Supporting services
Continuous surveillance, with flights scheduled by our agronomists to land on the critical stages of crop vegetation rather than on a fixed calendar.
Samples go to the lab and the results come back to our agronomists, who read them for soil fertility, nutrient deficiencies, and the fertilizer your soil specifically needs.
A written plan with timelines and deliverables: what fertilizer, how much, when to apply it, the spraying schedule, and which herbicides, pesticides and fungicides to use.
How we work
The first phase is done before anything is sprayed. The second runs until harvest.
We start with an information audit of your operation — what you grow, what you have been applying, and what has been going wrong.
We scan the field with multispectral mapping and run soil and water testing, so the picture of your farm is measured rather than described.
The data and the test results become a plan built for your farm, not a standard programme applied to it.
Repeat mappings through the season flag water problems, chemical problems and pest pressure while they are still small.
Because we are watching continuously, we intervene at the first sign of trouble — treating a problem area instead of a whole block.
AI-driven yield predictions give you a harvest you can plan around, with labour, transport and storage booked against a real number.
What it saves
The same three treatments over a thousand hectares, done conventionally and done by drone.
1,000 ha · 3 treatments
20× less water carted to the field and mixed.
1,000 ha · 3 treatments
15× less fuel — petrol for the generator, not diesel for a tractor.
Why aerial
Drones do not replace every pass. They win on wet ground, tall crop, awkward blocks and anything that has to happen this week.
| Drone | Ground rig | Fixed-wing | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wet or soft ground | Flies regardless | Bogs, ruts, compacts | Flies regardless |
| Crop damage | None — no wheel tracks | Tramlines every pass | None |
| Small / irregular blocks | Practical down to a few hectares | Practical, slow to turn | Uneconomic below scale |
| Water volume | Low — less carting, faster refill | High | Low |
| Mobilisation | Crew and kit on a bakkie | On-farm if available | Airstrip, ferry time, minimum acres |
| Targeted treatment | Built from the multispectral map | Needs rate controller | Broadcast only in practice |
| Operator exposure | Crew stays out of the swath | In-cab, in the field | Low-level flying risk |
Who we fly for
Most of our work is repeat season programmes for growers running enough hectares that a missed window costs real money.
Tell us the block and we will tell you honestly whether the drone is the right tool for it.
About us
Our team are trained professionals with experience in agriculture from Zimbabwe to Ukraine and Romania, with higher education in the field. We came to this from the chemistry side, not the gadget side.
It was our own experience testing and approving herbicides that led us to agricultural drones — once you have measured how much product a conventional pass wastes, the case for flying the application makes itself.
So we offer the whole chain rather than one step of it: multispectral scanning, analysing and interpreting soil samples, custom recovery plans, and drone application of herbicides, pesticides and fungicides. We are certified by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in the application of agricultural treatments and plant protection.
Free demo
Tell us the farm, the crop and what has been giving you trouble. We will fly a demo scan and walk you through what the imagery shows — at no cost, with no obligation to book the season.