The plant protection drone market lacks a sense of security. It is time to establish an industry alliance.

The next 5-10 years will usher in the golden age of the drone industry

UAVs are becoming "players", and their application scenarios are more and more, including aerial photography, anti-terrorism stability, traffic patrol, environmental protection, emergency rescue, exploration and mapping. The industry believes that with the increase of application scenarios, the next 5 to 10 years will be the golden age of the drone industry, and the domestic market will reach more than 200 billion yuan.

The lack of "security" in the plant protection drone market is the time to establish an industry alliance.

In many UAV application scenarios, plant protection drones are becoming the slogan of the industry with the development of modern agriculture in China. According to a survey conducted by the China Agricultural Machinery Circulation Association, the proportion of agricultural machinery cooperative organizations, large grain farmers, family farms, and farmer cooperatives in the consumption sector is growing at an average annual rate of 15%, the rise of new agricultural entities, and the new situation. A series of changes in the capital market have provided favorable conditions for the development of agricultural aircraft operations in China.

Statistics from the Ministry of Agriculture show that the area of ​​crop pests and diseases in 2016 is expected to be nearly 5.5 billion mu. If one third of the country's land is planted with drones, the market for drone plant protection services can reach 80 billion yuan. According to the number of drones and the area of ​​work in 2015, the number of corresponding drones will exceed 300,000 units, and the sales amount of this part will reach 30 billion yuan. Comprehensive consideration, the total size of the plant protection drone market can exceed 100 billion yuan.

"With the vigorous development of the plant protection drone industry, various problems have surfaced, such as the lack of long-term stable incentive policies and long-term development mechanisms." Yang Jincai said that the quality and technical level of drone products and platform systems, Industry standards, safety management and control, etc. need not be further improved, and the “National UAV Agricultural Plant Protection Technical Standards Alliance” should be established in the field of UAV agricultural plant protection.

"The bottleneck of plant protection drone technology is to achieve synergy between battery life and load capacity." Hu Xuedong, research manager of Avi Cloud's intelligent hardware business unit, told the reporter of "Daily Economic News" that the obstacles faced by domestic plant protection drones mainly come from Market acceptance and operating models are immature.

Industry calls for: Agricultural plant protection drone companies to establish industry alliances

“Machine substitution” will play a major role in the development of modern agriculture, and the market for agricultural drones is very promising. There are 1.8 billion mu of farmland in China. If half of the farms are sprayed with drones and estimated at 10 yuan per mu, then it is a market of tens of billions. And if you spray a few times a year like rice fields, simply estimate that there are tens of billions of plant protection services market.

The industry appeals that in the face of the lack of regulations and industry standards in the market, agricultural plant protection drone enterprises should organize alliances through the government or associations, form industrial alliances, and promote the improvement of relevant standards and industry norms for common orderly and healthy development. Work hard.

The development of any industry is inseparable from the formulation and improvement of laws and standards. Only when the market is regulated, can the industry develop steadily and for a long time. The development of the agricultural plant protection drone industry is also the same. It is expected that the national government will produce industry regulations and standards as early as possible in this industry, so that this emerging industry can exert greater power for the development of modern agriculture in China.