France, Feb. 16 -- In Cote d'Ivoire, where agriculture accounts for 20 percent of GDP, the sector is gradually modernising and adopting new technologies to improve efficiency - notably drones, used in the application of pesticides.

In the small village of Sokrogbo, in the south of Cote d'Ivoire, locals never tire of a particular sight: the take-off of the T-10 drone, a 25 kilogram machine capable of spraying up to 4.8 litres of pesticides per minute.

"I don't stand too close to the drone, I move a little further away," Amoin Koffi, an agronomist and drone pilot, told RFI. "And then, anyone who wants to watch stands behind me. They are curious, they want to know. They call it a 'little plane'," she explains, in front of a crowd of curiou...