UAV plant protection is questioned, "relief" is still the direction of efforts

[China Agricultural Machinery Industry News] "We just want a reliable drone, can spray drugs, can lift the fertilizer, can sow the drone!" This is a friend of Heilongjiang Province who wants to work in plant protection service. In my words, I use this sentence as the beginning of this article.

For a long time, because I have written several articles that questioned drones, many farmers and Internet agriculture practitioners have asked me some questions.

UAV plant protection is questioned, "relief" is still the direction of efforts

In recent days, I have been exposed to two more representative friends. One is a staff member of an Internet technology project angel investment agency, and the other is a friend of Heilongjiang who wants to work on plant protection services (that is, he said the sentence at the beginning of the article).

Coincidentally, when the two friends communicated with me, the initial problems were the same: UAV, electric and oil, single rotor and multi-rotor, which is better?

But their starting point is different.

The friends of investment institutions are because many manufacturers come to the door to seek investment, but they are difficult to distinguish between good and bad, so they need to be clearly identified so as not to be deceived by people; friends who want to engage in plant protection services are looking for good Products to achieve their goals.

Although the starting point is different, but the same way, the root of the problem lies in the suspicion of the drone, especially the distrust of the civilian drone in practical (mainly agricultural). The reason why I found me is because they saw almost all the praises of drones on the Internet. The complete praise is obviously doubtful. The author, I am a person who rarely speaks objective voices.

Next, I will select some of the exchanges with the friend of Heilongjiang, and I hope that the drone manufacturers, farmers friends, friends engaged in Internet agriculture will see it and have some inspiration.

This friend first showed me a video, which is an introduction to a foreign brand drone. The content is mainly the actual operation of agriculture (sowing).

This is from the FT video that in the United States, drones are seen as a quick and inexpensive solution for sending packages to Amazon and Google. Few people know that in Japan, it is used as a tool to solve the growing problem of population aging. Since the 1980s, motorcycle manufacturer Yamaha has been developing drones for spraying pesticides and sowing. Today, drones are more widely used. On the Japanese table, one out of every two bowls of rice is irrigated by a Yamaha drone. Recently, drones are more powerful, in addition to being able to load large tanks of pesticides and fertilizers, they can also be used to directly seed "cold seed rice seeds" into rice fields. In this way, farmers can not transplant rice stalks to rice fields after cultivation of rice cultivars (which is commonly known as Chinese transplanting), which reduces the labor hardship. Because Japanese rice farmers are getting older.

This video is basically a demonstration of farmland operations and is very intuitive.

Then, this friend of Heilongjiang showed me a video of a product of a certain brand in China.

He said: "This is a copy of Yamaha. It is okay to watch the video fly, but the spray is not ideal." He was confused: "Why is there no video of the crop flying in the country? If the effect is good, why don't you have a video? Farmers this year Why no one used it?"

For his question, I also hold the same attitude. The practical video of the drone is very rare. Is it that we can't reach that level or do we not see it? If we don't see it, then who do you see this product and do this video? Users can't see, to whom?

This friend showed me another piece of information and expressed his doubts.

This is a promotional content of a domestic product. In order to avoid causing disputes, the name of the enterprise product is hidden. The introduction claimed that the product is about 300 million mu in the plant protection market in a country in Southeast Asia. He said: "This is not true. The country's total cultivated area is less than 300 million mu, and the paddy field is only 143 million mu."