2017 plant protection drone development needs to boost confidence

[ China Agricultural Machinery Industry News ] The development of drones has been in a hot state for the past few years, and the application of drones in the field of plant protection has also been carried out in full swing. In the past year, it can be said that it is a plant protection drone. In the first year, many drone manufacturers, flight defense service providers, and agricultural capital merchants were active in the industry, contributing their own strength to the plant protection industry. However, in this great situation, there are still some "sorrows" caused by various reasons.

2017 plant protection drone development needs to boost confidence

Boss Zhu bought a farm plant protection drone from a small drone manufacturer early last year. Since he has operated other types of drones in the past, the family has also contracted several hundred acres of land. After practicing for a period of time, Zhu Bo decided to expand the contract size and prepare himself and his brother to use the drone to fight drugs in the field. Just a few times at the beginning of the operation, the process was smooth. After more than a month, I didn’t know what the reason was. Several parts of the drone were damaged one after another. Zhu boss took the parts and asked the manufacturers to provide after-sales service. The manufacturer told Zhu Boss The parts need to be returned to the factory for a new one, so that Zhu boss will go home and wait for news. A few days later, when Zhu Bo and his brother found the manufacturer again with unusable drones, the factory had already gone to the building.

As the captain of a professional plant protection drone, the captain set up a small drone flying defense team of about ten people. Together, they made some money and purchased three plant protection drones. Peasants and large-scale farmers who need to fight drugs, but because the local busy season is very limited, they spend only two or three months intensively. At other times, they need to find jobs in other parts of the province or in other provinces. But in many cases, even if it is able to work across provinces, it is impossible to get reliable information in time. In addition, the needs of farmers may change at any time. Sometimes the flight defense team is already on the way, but they are told that the other party has changed. Because there was no contract signed in advance, the captain only had a sigh.

In the case of Zhu Boss and the captain, there are still many, many in the plant protection industry. I thought that I could make a fortune in the first year with the plant protection drone, but I didn’t want to lose my wife and the soldiers. Whether the after-sales service of the plant protection drone can keep up with whether it can find reliable work after purchasing the aircraft, how to use the aircraft when it is idle, what should be done to the farmers who do not reason and do not fulfill the contract terms, the dealer must Don't buy airplanes yourself... these are all issues to consider.

At the same time as these kinds of problems are exposed, some platforms for providing drone flight defense services have appeared in the industry. For example, farmland butlers are one of them. The flight defense team has settled in the farmland butler platform and can choose the right platform on the platform. Orders for the situation, even for inter-provincial orders, are reliable job information. Inter-provincial operation means that the flight defense team's annual operation time is lengthened, and the aircraft idle time is reduced. The agricultural capitalists who want to transform can also easily transform to the agricultural service providers by becoming a platform partner, saving purchases. Unnecessary expenses such as airplanes and flying hands.

2017 has already begun, and I hope that this year will no longer be the "bad" year for anyone in the industry.


(Original title: The first year of plant protection drones, but their "bad" years)