Preliminary results of pest control in the agricultural field

Preliminary results of pest control in the agricultural field

Compared with foreign data, drones in Japan and other countries have been engaged in agriculture for decades, while domestic drones are less than one in a thousand. Domestic news on artificial spraying of pesticide poisoning has emerged in an endless stream, while drone spraying effectively solves the pain points and greatly reduces the risk of manual administration. In addition, manual spraying is difficult to control the problem of excessive pesticide residues.

The implementation of scientific and rational drug use at the national level has become a need for agricultural transformation. To this end, the introduction of drones into the agricultural sector has become an important criterion for the improvement of modern agricultural levels, and many provinces have begun to take action. For example, Jiangxi and other provinces directly include drones into the scope of agricultural machinery subsidies or start pilot subsidies to farmers, encouraging the purchase and use of drones.

However, there are many pain points in the domestic agricultural drones such as the need to improve the application of pesticides, the short-board of the UAV technology, the obstacle avoidance at night and the difficulty of operation.

In addition, domestic UAV technical barriers are still very high, such as flight control, cloud platform, map transmission, obstacles and other core functions are only controlled by a few companies. Therefore, many companies lack core technology or limited research and development capabilities, and may be ruthlessly eliminated by the market.

According to industry insiders, the rise of agricultural drones is related to the low level of traditional agricultural operations. Comparing the cultivated area of ​​farmers with Chinese and foreign farmers, it can be found that the management area of ​​Chinese farmers is far lower than that of Japanese and American farmers.

In order to promote the agricultural drone market, companies such as DJI have adopted leases to encourage farmers to use drone operations. With reference to foreign agriculture, leasing is undoubtedly a good way. Relatively speaking, the price of agricultural drones is high. If the cost of purchasing the farmer alone is high, it will also lead to the difficulty of measuring the idle input and output of the machine. The sharing mode such as leasing can balance the interests of all parties and realize the large utilization of equipment.

In addition, a new industrial chain will be formed around agricultural drones, such as drone maintenance, drone operators and other emerging industry chains.

The practice of Japanese drones in the agricultural field is worth learning from, and Japan has adopted agricultural associations to improve the efficiency of drone use. For example, it is carried out by farmers instead of single-door households. Take the rural areas in southern China as an example. If it is a single-door single-spray, the operating area is too small to push up the cost. If it can achieve concentrated spraying of farmland in large areas, it can also reduce farmers' own purchase of pesticides. Undoubtedly found a new way to solve the problem of pesticide flooding.

(Original title: Domestic agricultural drones can be used for centralized spraying or curing pesticides)