Let me share our first UAV experience. We benefitted from capacity building funded by CTA to start our activities. As our services in precision agriculture and forestry are still in a developing stage and we need to do more research to be able to demonstrate results in increasing crop yields and monitoring crop stress and water levels in the soil using drones, there is also a need for additional funding.    I would like to show that we work the local agriculture et forest context in DRC:   1/ agriculture context:  ----------------------------------- - caracterised by small poor farmers scale working generaly for family livelihods (subsistance) without access to Bank credite; - very limited capability to use chimical intrant.  - very small agro industrial scale.  - The few company working in the country ( around Kinshasa, Bateke plateau ) which were contacting need to know more about beneficial income to bring for UAV before involved.    Regarding constraints (low access of small farmers to the service, and need of more income to bring by UAV technologies)  IRDAC is planning to change its strategies  focusing for the following six months the work on demonstration (pilots) working closely with some small-scale farmers and cooperatives in Bateke Plateau near Kinshasa, in Kongo central province (women association in Kasangulu near Kinshasa - COFED, etc.). We need to work closely with the national research institution to help in demonstrating results in this stage ( INERA was contacted, some other university too)   We are also are trying to contact and look for FAO national office in DRC to help because FAO is the great institution which capabilities to help in that matter. IRDAC is the lead local organisation trying to promote use of UAV in Precision Ag and forest monitoring but de have very less support in national level.   2/ Forest monitoring -------------- DRC have been involved  in REDD+ to promote more sustainability and agriculture impact in forest arounding. So, IRDAC plane to help farmers to use a drone in the monitoring of forest impact around farmlands. This will be a big contribution to REDD process in local scale. But, this is too un developing stage as well PrecisionAg.   This is our little experience, with a lot of constraints, in the national context in RDC, that I wanted to share with the other participants.    Comments of webinar attendees are welcome. I cannot join the direct discussion but I can read your comment to my post!    warm regards,  Barthélemy Boika  Technical Director / IRDAC Kinshasa/ DRC