Exploring the potential of plant protection drones to cultivate professionals to get rich

[China Agricultural Machinery Industry News] At the end of July, the corn in the Huayin area of ​​southern Anhui Province in Shaanxi Province suffered from serious armyworm pests for more than a decade. Many corns in the land were eaten with only corn poles. What is more serious is that At this time, the corn has grown to a high level, and it is impossible to kill the insects by hand. At the dawn of the millennium, the plant protection drones were on the verge of death. They used to fight drugs on the top of the corn. Through manual remote control, they completed a total of 80,000 mu of drone spraying operations in just a few days, saving most of the corn.

Since the plant protection drone is so powerful, why is the scope of promotion seem limited?

Exploring the potential of plant protection drones to cultivate professionals to get rich

1. The past and present of the drone

Plant protection drones are unmanned aircraft used for the protection of agricultural and forestry plants, mainly through ground remote control or GPS flight control. Compared with traditional plant protection operations, the UAV plant protection operation has the characteristics of operation, environmental protection, intelligence, and simple operation, which saves farmers the cost of large machinery and a large amount of manpower.

Although the plant protection drone is no stranger to us, in fact, its time in China is not particularly long. In 2010, Taiwan Plant Protection UAVs were put into the market in China. Today, they have gradually become a new type of plant protection that farmers can accept from a pure concept of “scientific and technological agriculture”.

Although the plant protection drone is also a farm implement, it is more expensive than the average tractor and harvester. Nowadays, the country is vigorously promoting agricultural socialization services. In a sense, plant protection drones have unlimited business opportunities.

Let's listen to Mr. Zhang Zhaowen, executive vice president and secretary general of the China Adult Education Association:

Zhang Zhaowen:

Today, our science and technology has developed to use drones to spray pesticides. It can spray 900 mu of land in 5 minutes. This efficiency is very high. We hope to set more of our teaching points to places where large farmers such as Heilongjiang and Jilin gather. .

The market in Northeast China is very large, and it is necessary for professional farmers to drive and operate drones instead of traditional manual operations. We also hope that more vocational colleges, aviation colleges and more new professional farmers can master and operate plant protection drones. Better play a role in the agricultural sector to help farmers get rid of poverty and get rich.

2. What are the benefits of plant protection drones?

1 Agricultural unmanned helicopters fly fast, scale operations can reach 120-150 acres per hour, and its efficiency is at least 100 times higher than conventional spraying; plant protection drones operate through ground remote control or GPS flight control, spraying operators remotely operate Avoid the danger of exposure to pesticides and improve the safety of spraying operations.

2 Unmanned helicopter spraying technology uses spray spraying to save at least 50% of pesticide use, save 90% of water consumption, and greatly reduce resource costs. At the same time, it also has the characteristics of low working height, less drift, and hovering in the air. When the pesticide is sprayed, the downward airflow generated by the rotor helps to increase the penetration of the logistics into the crop, and the control effect is good.

3 In addition, the electric drone has small overall size, light weight, low depreciation rate, easy maintenance, low labor cost per unit operation, easy operation, and the operator usually masters the essentials and performs tasks after 30 days of training.

3. Where is the plant protection drone promotion difficult?

Plant protection drones are increasingly favored by the plant protection service market and farmers. Its sales also have blowouts. Many cooperatives, large planters, agricultural plant protection stations, and pesticide service providers use drones for flying defense operations, making the plant protection market full of infinity. Business. However, UAV flight defense is an emerging industry, and there are not many UAV flying hands that meet the requirements. This has led to the occupation of the UAV fly-by hand.

It is precisely because of the shortage of drone flying hands that everyone knows the name of the plant protection drone, but it has never been able to enter thousands of households.

Regarding the training of drone flying hands, some companies are equally concerned with us to see how they can solve this problem.