Aerial Spray is a high-efficiency effective method for spraying pesticides through general-purpose UAVs, and it has the advantages that other conventional measures are incomparable.
Plant protection Aerial Spray refers to a new crop protection method that uses small remote-controlled drones to spray pesticides at low altitudes to achieve the prevention and control of crop diseases and insect pests.
As spring arrives, everything grows, and the farmers start to get busy. Zhao Jianjun, a new farmer from Yiyang City, China got busy early. At 7:00 in the morning, he had to arrive at the rapeseed field to spray pesticides with agricultural drones for farmer clients.
Standing in the field, looking around, the rapeseed field of more than 430 mu is very broad. The farmers who come to work here either ride motorcycles or drive cars. If you choose to spray water and pesticides manually on such a large area, It is really time-consuming and labor-intensive, but the emergence of drones has promoted the intelligentization of agriculture and brought good news to farmers.
"Using drones to spray potion is very convenient and easy." Zhao Jianjun, an agricultural drone pilot, introduced that he is a veteran. After retiring in 2018, he bought agricultural drones to start a business at the suggestion of his comrades. "The current operating site has more than 430 acres of land. Under the condition of ensuring the spraying effect, the drone can be used to complete the work in about 6 hours."
Zhao Jianjun currently owns 4 agricultural drones, and has more than 300 acres of land in his home. In addition to flying and plant protection for his own home, he also provides agricultural drone planting and spraying services for other farmers in the town. The average annual operating area exceeds 3 About 10,000 acres.
With the advancement of the times and technology, the use of drones in agriculture and forestry to replace manual pesticide application has gradually been recognized by the market. However, drones also have their advantages as well as disadvantages, only by well understanding which, can they serve us better.
The speed of the drone application operation is quite fast. It takes dozens of minutes to do the work, which is equivalent to the workload of one day or even two days of manual work, and the efficiency is quite high. For example, when working on ten acres of land, it takes about 2 days for a single person to spray pesticides manually, and it can be easily completed in about 20 minutes using a plant protection drone. Therefore, the efficiency of drones is dozens of times higher than that of humans. In addition, most of the diseases and insect pests caused by crops will break out in a short period of time. The sooner the prevention and control is done, the damage to crops can be minimized and yield reduction can be avoided. Therefore, UAV operations are time-saving, labor-saving, fast and efficient.
In the past 2021, the drone industry has achieved tremendous development, the technology has continued to mature, and its applications have continued to land. Now that 2022 has begun, and the Year of the Tiger is coming, how will the industry change in the new year? The World Wide Web Drone Channel interviewed industry insiders in various fields.
Industry insiders have mentioned in many sub-sectors that the global "lack of cores" problem has also affected the drone industry. On the one hand, the firmness of hardware prices limits the further decline of product prices; on the other hand, it is more difficult for small manufacturers with small purchases to obtain goods. Such problems already existed last year, and one of them believes that this year, the situation will not worsen, but the status quo will be maintained.
These two points have a greater impact on consumer drones. A research and development staff of a start-up company who requested anonymity said that DJI’s product line is now very complete, ranging from professional aerial cameras that exceed 10,000 yuan to two or three. Thousands of entry-level products are available. DJI's professional aerial camera is a widely recognized productivity tool. Some fields regard its shooting ability as a rigid need, and other manufacturers are difficult to leverage regardless of the price; while entry-level products should pursue cost-effectiveness, but suffer from problems such as "lack of cores". Influenced, the cost performance of late-launching companies is not going up. If users want to take into account both the fun of flying and the shooting effect, the cheapest choice is DJI's Mini series. "Most consumers are very rational and will not pay for their feelings."
However, he said that for ordinary other manufacturers, there is still another opportunity: the thousand yuan machine. He said that next year, a number of companies will launch entry-level drones at the thousand yuan level and sell them directly to consumers through e-commerce platforms. Due to cost constraints, these models cannot be equipped with a gimbal and can only use electronic image stabilization. The video quality will be poor, but the flight performance is acceptable. He believes that there are several types of people who need such products: ① People who just like to fly, and many "flying friends" don't shoot things, but just like to fly; ② Give gifts, such as drones, which are very high-tech products. Face, but ordinary people still think it is too expensive; ③Beginners, some beginners will want to buy cheap models to practice their hands first.
Although the shooting level has been abandoned a lot, these models are not toys, and they also need to compete with the technical strength of the company. He said that these thousand-yuan drones also have GPS, and have the ability to return to home autonomously.
In the past few years, a large number of small and medium-sized manufacturers were producing plant protection drones, but in the past two years, most of them have given up this market. Zhang Ruirui, director of the Aviation Application Technology Department of the National Agricultural Intelligent Equipment Engineering Technology Research Center, believes that it is not wise for small and medium-sized enterprises to compete with the functions of DJI and Jifei products. The top priority of other enterprises is differentiated competition.
He said that the release of DJI and Jifei 40kg payload products put a lot of pressure on other multi-rotor drone manufacturers. The 40 kg class is a difficult threshold, which puts forward higher technical requirements for motors, airframes, flight controls, etc., and significantly increases manufacturing costs. It is no longer possible to significantly improve the competitiveness of products.
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