It is now legal to spray pesticides by drone in Prince Edward Island. 

The province updated regulations in May, allowing drones to apply pesticides to crops.

“Canada’s a little bit behind the 8-ball on it,” said Fraser Cameron, P.E.I.’s pesticide management program specialist. “There’s been a lot of countries that have already been doing this for a little bit now.”

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