Plant protection drone is filling the agricultural plant protection mechanized short board

[China Agricultural Machinery Industry News] Agriculture has always been the lifeblood of China's national economy. With the trend of land transfer and land intensive management in China, the modern machinery represented by drones is developing very rapidly, and the huge market of plant protection drones attracts. There is a lot of social capital.

Plant protection drone is filling the agricultural plant protection mechanized short board

Judging from the heat of public opinion, the momentum of drones has fallen, and to be precise, the heat of consumer-class drones is no longer. On the one hand, because the market structure has basically been fixed, on the other hand, the technology has not seen innovation for a long time, and the players have no taste. However, for farmers with weak consumption power, the price-economy, simple and easy-to-operate, and highly efficient plant protection drones are the real “treasures of the palm”.

Completing a short board after modern agriculture

Agriculture has always been the lifeblood of our national economy. The data shows that there are a total of 2.025 billion mu of cultivated land in China, accounting for about 7% of the total cultivated land area in the world. However, the current application of modern agricultural equipment is insufficient, and the rural youth labor force is seriously lacking. To this end, the state has introduced policies to vigorously promote the transformation and upgrading of agriculture marked by large-scale production, and the plant protection drones that work with “machine generation” have also begun to emerge in batches. In the public eye.

With the acceleration of land circulation and land intensification management in China, the development of modern machinery represented by drones is very rapid. Plant protection drones largely compensate for the limitations of traditional machinery. For example, paddy fields in the southern region, hills, mountains and high-bar crops and other large-scale equipment can not enter the place, so plant protection drones have complemented the short-board of mechanized mechanization, the application is very extensive.

In the billion-dollar market

As early as 2014, the No. 1 Document of the Central Committee clearly put forward the major national strategic decision-making of “strengthening the construction of agricultural aviation”, and then various support policies were gradually rolled out. According to statistics, the rate of aviation plant protection operations worldwide has reached 17%. Sixty-five percent of the chemical pesticides in the United States are sprayed by aircraft operations, of which 100% of rice is applied by aircraft. In the Asian market with complex farmland terrain, Japan is a mature case of plant protection drones, and the proportion of aviation operations has reached more than 50%.

Among China's 2 billion mu of cultivated land, the proportion of aviation plant protection is only 1.65%. With the increase of land transfer rate and the popularity of plant protection drones, this proportion will gradually increase, and the plant protection market will eventually reach the scale of 100 billion. With the maturity of small sensor technology, in the agricultural field, the conditions for large-scale use of civilian drones have matured, and the huge market for plant protection drones has attracted a lot of social capital.

a rising star in the drone world

From the perspective of industrial drone segmentation, in addition to government services that account for nearly 70% of the market, the potential of the industrial-grade UAV market is deeply embedded in agricultural plant protection, forestry protection, police patrols, and aerial mapping. From the point of view of basic demand characteristics, the application of industrial-grade UAVs has high requirements for personnel operation training and comprehensive costs. The future development requires mature industrial chains to provide the lowest possible parts and support services. Among the listed new three-board drone companies, the total revenue in the first half of 2016 increased by 31.8%, and the net profit in the same period also had a matching growth rate of 25.0%. Among them, agricultural plant protection in the sub-sectors showed a leading position, with revenue growth of 70.5% and net profit growth of 62.8%.

Looking at the performance of drone companies engaged in agricultural plant protection, they found that they have more outstanding performance. In the same period, the revenue growth rate reached 70.5%, and the net profit growth rate was 62.8%. According to the data of the sixth census, there are 67.415 million people living in rural areas, accounting for 50.32%. China is a large country with a large population and a large agricultural country. The potential of the agricultural plant protection market cannot be underestimated. According to iResearch. According to the market size forecast, by 2025, the agricultural plant protection market will have a scale of 20 billion yuan.