The demand for plant protection drones is expected to expand and the enterprises are ready?

Plant protection drones have the advantages of high drug utilization rate, reduced labor cost, adapt to a variety of crops and reduce environmental pollution. In the future, plant protection drones will be indispensable in high-standard farmland plant protection work for large-scale planting. The 2016 China UAV Industry Research Report released by iResearch predicts that the market for agricultural and forestry plant protection drones will reach 20 billion yuan by 2025.

At present, the effective utilization rate of artificial plant protection pesticides in China is only 30%, and nearly 70% of pesticides are lost to soil or rivers, causing environmental pollution. Plant protection drones can not only realize automatic pesticide quantification, control and low-volume spraying, but also greatly reduce the pollution of pesticides on soil and environment. It also helps to increase the penetration of pesticides into crops, saving pesticides by 30% to 50% and saving. 90% of water consumption. With the continuous increase in support policies and the improvement of mechanization, the demand for plant protection drones is expected to expand rapidly.

In recent years, the degree of mechanization of plant protection operations in China has been relatively low. According to the statistics of Chinese farmers' cooperatives, the plant protection machinery used in China is still dominated by manual and small sprayers, of which manual application machines and knapsack application machines account for 93% and 5.53% of the proportion of domestic plant protection machinery, respectively. Tractor-mounted plant protection machinery About 0.57%. As of last year, China's agricultural plant protection drones have a total of 2,324 aircraft, with a total operating area of ​​11.528 million mu, accounting for only 0.13% of the area under control, and there is huge room for improvement in the future.

In terms of policies, this year, the Civil Aviation Administration issued the “Regulations on the Operation of Light and Small UAVs (Trial) and the “Interim Measures for the Management of General Aviation Business Activities Using Civil Unmanned Aircraft Systems” to manage and manage the plant-based UAVs. Detailed regulations for flying hand training and operational requirements have played an important role in promoting the orderly development of the plant protection drone industry. In addition, the Ministry of Agriculture's "Zero Fertilizer Use Zero Growth Action Plan" and "After 2020 Pesticide Use Zero Growth Action Plan" proposed to promote modern self-propelled sprayer sprayers, fixed-wing aircraft, plant protection drones, etc. Plant protection machinery adopts advanced application technology to improve the target of spray, reduce drift loss, improve the utilization rate of pesticides, and incorporate aviation plant protection machinery into the scope of agricultural machinery purchase subsidies, and improve the subsidy standards for large and medium-sized plant protection machinery purchase.

From the perspective of the industrial chain, plant protection drones are divided into upstream support and manufacturing, mid-stream agricultural service operations, and downstream maintenance insurance. Among them, the mid-stream agricultural service operation has played a role as a core link. The flight defense brigade established by it directly targets agricultural planting users. The drone service model provided has extremely low economic requirements for farmers, and farmers only need to pay lower fees. The enjoyment of the plant protection drone service will be conducive to the comprehensive development of China's agricultural plant protection modernization.