What is the future of agricultural drones?

From the era of agriculture 1.0, which is dominated by manual labor of small farmers, to the era of agriculture 4.0, which integrates the Internet for highly intelligent planting management, technology is an important factor in promoting agricultural development.

The era of China's agriculture 4.0 started by drones is still in the exploratory stage. At the same time, it faces great opportunities and thorny challenges of agriculture + AI. Can China's agriculture break through the obstacles and allow technology to truly empower agricultural development?

In the past, the main problem of food may be the problem of provenance, security and trade. However, with a series of problems such as the urbanization of the rural population and the aging of the rural population, unmanned farming has become a new problem in agriculture, and it needs to be solved urgently. It is difficult to solve the problem of rural population loss in the short term, and it is a suitable method to improve the efficiency of agriculture through technology and machinery.

In the seventh rural revitalization of the 14th Five-Year Plan, the improvement of agricultural quality, efficiency and competitiveness is also emphasized: "Strengthen the research and development and application of large and medium-sized, intelligent and compound agricultural machinery, and increase the comprehensive mechanization rate of crop cultivation and harvesting to 75%. "

Under a series of favorable factors such as industry trends, favorable policies, and technological support, Jifei Technology empowers agriculture with drone technology and brings benefits to agriculture with drone plant protection as the entry point. But at the same time, the combination of drones and agriculture is still in its infancy, and the development of the agriculture 4.0 era still faces many difficulties.

Drone + agriculture, drone plant protection solution greatly reduces costs and increases efficiency

The drone plant protection solution can greatly reduce the workload of farmers. Taking a 300-acre lemon orchard as an example, a father and son plus a drone can complete the pesticide application in 4 hours, which takes 3 weeks for two people to complete. work.

While reducing the workload, it also reduces the loss of crops. Taking 1,000 mu of cotton as an example, if a tractor is used to spray pesticides, it will cause 5-6 mu of cotton loss. Calculated at the price of 400 kg/mu of cotton fields and 8 yuan/kg, the loss will reach nearly 20,000 yuan. And drones can completely avoid this part of the loss.

Not only that, but it also saves the amount of water, pesticides and fertilizers. According to the statistics of Jifei Technology, relying on precise variable spraying technology, in the process of grain production, drones helped reduce the use of 45,363 tons of pesticides and fertilizers, greatly alleviating the problems of soil pollution and pesticide residues; saving 15.39 million tons of agricultural water, which is relatively Annual water consumption of 200,000 residents. Because drones replace traditional fuel-fired agricultural machinery operations, 760,000 tons of carbon emissions are reduced, which is equivalent to planting 10.32 million trees.

Facts have proved that the combination of drones and agriculture has not only brought huge benefits to agriculture, but also created more energy-saving and emission-reduction effects. Then if drones continue to develop in the agricultural field and integrate with agriculture at a deeper level, the era of agriculture 4.0 that integrates the Internet will be completely realized. However, this road is not easy to take.

Drones in the agricultural industry have a bright future, but also a rough road

For the application of drones in the agricultural field to be popularized, there are still a series of problems that need to be solved urgently.

At this stage, Chinese farmers are generally older, and the Internet penetration is low. The technical threshold of industry-level drones is high, and the operation is not easy. And for farmers, there is a most practical problem, that is cost.

In the process of solving the above problems and the popularization of unmanned operations, a large amount of operation data should be accumulated, and big data should be used to empower agriculture. Combining these big data with the planting, production, and marketing of agricultural products can even expand the scope of services to financial services, automated agricultural production management, and traceability of agricultural products. Reduce costs for farmers from multiple links, improve income and efficiency, and at the same time, can better play the value of technology and big data in the agricultural field.

The era of agriculture 4.0 created by drone technology shows us the infinite possibilities of combining technology and agriculture, and brings a lot of benefits to Chinese agriculture and even global agriculture.

In general, the drone market in the agricultural field still has a wider space for development, and at the same time there are various pain points, making it difficult to make further breakthroughs in Agriculture 4.0. However, as long as we can continuously optimize technology and improve services, these problems will eventually be resolved.

It is believed that it takes agricultural plant protection as the entry point, and in the future, it will deepen the integration of agricultural industry chain and technology, and create a new future in the field of agriculture.