China has been a large agricultural country since ancient times. It has a long-standing agricultural culture and hundreds of millions of farmers. China has always put agricultural development first, but with the development of the times, China ’s traditional agricultural management model in which small farmers are organized and many previous farming methods are no longer applicable, and agricultural development has gradually entered the pace of modernization. Moreover, the country is also vigorously advocating innovation in agricultural technology, improving agricultural productivity and agricultural technology equipment. This will reduce the cost of farmers' land and increase the market competitiveness of agricultural products. Under this major premise. Agricultural drones combining current science and technology came into being. Drones, a science and technology that was once only used in the military field, are now combining agricultural production, giving countless farmers friends new ways of farming. This is indeed a good thing, but a survey of professionals found that in fact, there are still a small number of farmers who can really use agricultural drone technology to cultivate, and even some farmers' friends bought it with interest, and the result was finally put down. So why is this? Let ’s talk about the current situation and prospects of agricultural drones.

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What can agricultural drones do?

 The use of drones in the agricultural sector brings unlimited possibilities to traditional agriculture. A variety of drones provide farmers' friends with the lowest cost aerial camera platform. Especially in recent years, more and more extreme weather has appeared. Unpredictable weather causes increased risks and maintenance costs. The application of agricultural drones can accurately display the time of crop growth in the form of sequence animation, thus Better crop management. In this way, farmers can effectively monitor crops in the most economical way. Agricultural drones are often used to obtain images of crops, and the images obtained by drones are processed by special software. To process the reflectivity image of the farm crop. In addition, UAVs can also be used for soil farmland analysis, which can accurately generate 3D maps to analyze soil properties, soil moisture content, and soil erosion. These monitoring and analysis are essential for seeding. And even after planting, the information analyzed above is very helpful for farmland irrigation and management of nitrogen levels. The obstacle that can not effectively monitor the crops in a large area of ​​farmland is solved.

In addition to monitoring and analysis, agricultural drones can also be used for planting, agricultural spraying, and irrigation and health assessments. It is worth mentioning that although the drone planting technology is not yet mature, some manufacturers have proposed a system solution to shoot pods containing seeds and plant nutrients into the farmland soil. If the research is successful, it will greatly reduce planting costs. So since agricultural drones have so many advantages, why haven't they become popular so far?

Reasons for difficulty in spreading

Purchase cost

Drones without related professional equipment are still relatively cheap, but they are not very helpful for agricultural production. The cost of agricultural drones that can really be used for agricultural production is still relatively high. The cost also includes hardware, software, tools, and imaging sensors. Such a high price is also prohibitive for many farmers friends.

Lack of professionals makes it difficult for ordinary farmers

Drones are difficult to operate and require professional technical training, but there are very few drones that meet the standards in the market. Professional drone drivers are mostly young enthusiasts of drones. This makes it easier to learn. Ordinary farmers need to take professional training if they want to use drones. Operating drones also adds a lot of costs invisibly. This situation affects the use of agricultural drones in ordinary farmers. It also caused the embarrassing situation that many peasant households spent tens of thousands of dollars to buy it back but would not use it.

Prospect analysis of agricultural drones

In China, with the acceleration of land circulation, the scale and intensification of land have further increased, and agricultural drones will also become the new darling of agricultural machinery. At present, a lot of social service organizations have emerged in the agricultural field. Cool agricultural drones firmly believe that doing agricultural social services is the only way to realize the transformation and upgrading of agriculture. In the future, there will be major changes in the meaning of farmers. They will become more professional, professional, young, highly educated, understand agricultural machinery, and easily accept new things.

The entire "farmer" group will gradually differentiate: more and more graduates from colleges and universities with agricultural backgrounds will be engaged in field management; in the future, there will be more and more labor needs to understand the operation and maintenance of drones; in the future, farmers will be New farmers who understand the market and have new thinking about science and technology will be engaged in agricultural marketing and distribution-related work; the older generation will gradually phase out or engage in basic work. Kuonong believes that in the future, the use of agricultural unmanned opportunities is a big trend, and also hopes that agricultural drones can help the majority of farmers in agricultural production.