In order to prevent theft of peaches and grapes, on the night of the 18th, a drone with a special camera was sent over the vineyards in Yamanashi City to conduct patrol training.
The training was held in a vineyard in Manriki, Yamanashi City, where high-end grape varieties such as Shine Muscat, a specialty of the prefecture, are cultivated. Local agricultural cooperatives and private security companies participated.
In the training, a small drone equipped with a thermo camera that can visualize the surface temperature was flown in the sky to track down the criminal who invaded the field.
Then, when the figure of the criminal was displayed on the monitor, the security guard who was contacted drove to the scene to check it.
This year, in Yamanashi Prefecture, there have been a series of thefts of specialty peaches and grapes, and according to a police summary, about 21,000 peaches and about 200 grapes were stolen by the end of last month. It has been.
Takashi Nishijima, the president of JA Fruit Yamanashi, said, "Even at night, I was able to confirm that a suspicious person entered the field, so I think that drones can be a great deterrent."