“National Supplement” boosts the plant protection drone industry outbreak

[ China Agricultural Machinery Industry News ] In recent years, with the development of plant protection drones accelerating, the application is becoming more widespread, and the industry's call for purchase subsidies continues to rise. Nowadays, the “national supplement” policy has entered the implementation stage, and it is expected to promote a new round of growth in the plant protection drone market in the future and gain broader development prospects.

Plant protection drones, that is, drones used for the protection of agricultural and forestry plants, can be used to spray pesticides, seeds, powders and other farm operations. In recent years, the development of plant protection drones has been accelerating, but the entire industry is still in its infancy.

According to China Industrial Information Network, in 2015, the number of plant protection UAVs reached 2,324 (31 provinces), with a total operating area of ​​11.528 million mu, compared with 695 and 4.26 million mu in 2014. It is 234%, 170.6%.

However, according to the total area of ​​plant protection drones reached 115.28 million mu in 2015, the proportion of plant protection in UAVs in China is less than 1%, while the proportion of cultivated land in agricultural operations in the United States and Japan has reached 50% and 54% respectively. The world average has also reached 17% higher than China's.

The state officially promoted the "national supplement" landing

In order to further release the potential of the plant protection drone market and promote the rapid development of the plant protection drone industry, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Finance and the Civil Aviation Bureau jointly issued the "General Office of the Ministry of Agriculture, the General Office of the Ministry of Finance, and the General Affairs Department of the Civil Aviation Administration of China. The Agricultural Machinery Purchase Subsidy Guided the Notification of Plant Protection Unmanned Aircraft Standard Application Pilot Work (hereinafter referred to as the Notice), decided to select Zhejiang (including Ningbo), Anhui, Jiangxi, Hunan, Guangdong, Chongqing 6 provinces (cities) in 2017 to carry out agricultural machinery The purchase subsidy guides the pilot application of the plant protection unmanned aircraft specification application.

It is worth noting that the pilot funds are arranged in a unified manner in the central government's agricultural machinery purchase subsidy funds, and the total amount of each pilot province is controlled within 10 million yuan. The subsidy target is the agricultural production and operation organization engaged in plant protection operations, and the individual purchase of plant protection unmanned aircraft will not be subsidized.

In addition, the notice also proposed that a fixed subsidy will be applied to the purchase of pilot products, and the amount of subsidies for each product will not exceed 30% of the average market sales price of the products in 2017, and the single machine subsidy will not exceed 30,000 yuan. According to the pilot program, the drones piloted by local provinces and cities must be used only in the agricultural production field, and the subsidy funds are directly given to the purchasers.

Local provinces and cities speed up the implementation of subsidies

With the official introduction of the “national supplement” policy, relevant local provinces and cities have also accelerated the implementation of the pilot program for agricultural machinery purchase subsidies. Recently, Jiangxi Province and Chongqing Municipality have successively promoted the development of related work.

Recently, the Chongqing Municipal Agriculture Commission, the Municipal Finance Bureau and the Civil Aviation Chongqing Supervision Bureau jointly issued a notice: from October 30, 2017 to March 30, 2018, the agricultural machinery purchase subsidy will be introduced to guide the plant protection unmanned aircraft (ie for the protection of agricultural and forestry plants). The operational drones are standardized application pilots to guide the development and standardization of plant protection drone technology to promote green development in agriculture.

The subsidy target is the agricultural production and operation organization engaged in plant protection operations in Chongqing, which mainly includes farmers (agricultural machinery) professional cooperatives, plant protection operation organizations, and crop pest and disease control organizations. The financial department will implement a fixed subsidy for plant protection drones. The single-rotor plant protection unmanned aircraft included in the pilot products will be subsidized by 29,000 yuan each, and the multi-rotor plant protection unmanned aircraft (including batteries) will be subsidized by 16,000 yuan each.

Jiangxi Province also issued the “Pilot Implementation Plan for the Plant Protection Unmanned Aircraft Purchase Subsidy in Jiangxi Province” (referred to as the “Program”), and carried out pilot work on plant protection unmanned aircraft purchase subsidies in the grain-producing counties and “predominant citrus production areas”.

The "Program" clearly states that the pilot plant protection unmanned aircraft is an electric multi-rotor, 10L ≤ rated drug loading ≤ 15 L, and at least 4 batteries. Based on the principle of “control quota” for agricultural machinery purchase subsidies, each subsidy is 17,000 yuan. The pilot areas are large grain-producing counties and “predominant citrus-producing areas”, which are 64 counties (cities, districts) such as Nanchang County, Xinjian District, Jinxian County, Leping City and Xiushui County. The total scale of the pilot funds is 10 million yuan.

With the implementation of the “National Supplementary” policy at the local level, it is expected to effectively promote the steady development of the plant protection drone market and release greater dividends for the consumer groups while the company continues to reduce costs and prices. Although there are still many provinces and municipalities in the country that have not yet included plant protection drones into the scope of subsidies, under the active promotion of the national policy level, the outbreak of the plant protection drone industry is not far off. (Original title: Plant protection drone growth space to be excavated "National Supplement" landing release positive signal)