Plant protection drone short board highlights targeted development to usher in maximizing expansion

[ China Agricultural Machinery Industry News ] In order to promote the process of agricultural modernization, accelerate the digitalization and intelligent development of agriculture, it is very important to improve the level of agricultural plant protection. With the rapid development of plant protection drones, China's agricultural plant protection field has ushered in a good opportunity for change. However, there are still many shortcomings in plant protection drones, and future development needs to be more targeted.

Whether it is domestic or foreign, agriculture is always a key basic industry. It is said that the people eat food for the sky. If there is no food, eating is a problem, and what about the development of other industries. China is a large agricultural country with nearly 1.8 billion mu of basic farmland. Although it has been promoting agricultural mechanization since the beginning of the new century, artificial plant protection is still the main plant protection method due to many factors such as historical traditions, geographical factors and living standards.

At present, artificial plant protection has lagged quite a bit for the development of agricultural modernization, and there are huge gaps in efficiency and cost. And in the annual agricultural plant protection operations, pesticide poisoning is a major threat that is difficult to avoid, and other safety issues are countless.

Moreover, with the further development of agricultural modernization, the construction of “smart agriculture” has been deepened, the cost of agricultural operations has been continuously improved, and the traditional plant protection model has become increasingly difficult to meet the increasing demand. Therefore, with the development of drones, plant maintenance of drones has become a promising industry.

In recent years, the development of drones in the field of agricultural plant protection has continued to expand, and plant protection drone companies have mushroomed, and they have accelerated their rise and seized market cakes. According to the data of the Prospective Industry Research Institute's "UAV Industry Market Demand Analysis Report", the market space of China's plant protection drones is expected to reach 3.5 billion yuan in 2017, and the compound annual growth rate in the next five years (2017-2021) is about 38.29%. In 2021, it will reach 12.8 billion yuan.

Although the overall development trend of plant protection drones is hot, but under the craze, the industry wants to achieve sustained outbreaks and maintain sustainable and healthy development, and must face many shortcomings that exist.

The price is high. At present, some areas of China have begun to try to use plant protection drones, but basically they are all carried out through professional flight defense service teams or agricultural insurance companies. The reason why ordinary farmers and even large households do not have the desire to purchase plant protection drones is because the price of plant protection drones is too high, beyond the affordability of ordinary consumers. It is understood that there are more than 100 manufacturers of plant protection drones in China. The quality of plant protection drones on the market is uneven and the prices are different, but they are basically maintained at 50,000 to 200,000.

Service lags. In recent years, plant protection drones have gradually emerged. There are basically plant protection drone manufacturers in all parts of the country, but the related supporting industrial chains are unevenly distributed, so after-sales service has become a major problem. Previously, the plant protection drone insurance service began to take off, is still in the exploration stage, and needs to be continuously improved.

The standard is lacking. Although China's plant protection drone industry has begun to accelerate development, there are no clear industry standards in the industry, including drones' own technology, performance standards and plant protection standards. This makes it difficult to standardize the quality of drone products, and the government cannot introduce targeted support policies. Therefore, it is important to speed up the improvement of relevant standards.

Because the cost of plant protection drones is high and the cost is difficult to control effectively, both farmers, flight defense teams, agricultural insurance companies and drone manufacturers hope that the state can introduce subsidy policies as soon as possible, and plant protection drones into national agricultural machinery subsidies.

Not long ago, the big dividend that the industry has been expecting for many years has finally begun to take part. The Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Finance and the Civil Aviation Administration officially issued the "Notice on Carrying out the Pilot Work on the Application of Agricultural Machinery Purchase Subsidy to Guide Plant Protection and Unmanned Aircraft", and announced that Zhejiang will be selected in 2017. In Jiangsu, Anhui, Jiangxi, Hunan, Guangdong, Chongqing and other six provinces and cities to carry out plant protection drone subsidies pilot.

Of course, although the plant protection drone national replenishment finally opened the curtain, there is still room for refinement and optimization in the specific implementation. For example, the agricultural sector prefers to subsidize the purchase of plant protection drones, while drone companies prefer to receive support in terms of capital and taxation.

In a good situation, relevant enterprises need to proceed from market demand, further control costs, reduce the difficulty of operations, and more specifically develop products that face different customers and promote product diversification, instead of simply improving the operation of drones. ability. We must know that only by pushing the products into thousands of households, the market of plant protection drones will be able to usher in the expansion of Dahua. This is a real gold mine.