It is clear superiority that we can apply plant protection drone in agriculture, though domestic technology for that is still in its infancy. Plant protection drone, which can be manipulated to spray fertilizer, seeds or pesticide, mainly consists of three parts, flight platform, flight controlling system and spraying system respectively.
Agricultural drone has greatly surpassed the traditional Manual plant protection methods in many aspects.
Higher efficiency
Drones can accomplish a pesticide spraying mission of 1-2 acres per minute, which is about 30-60 times faster than spraying pesticide Manually. As time goes by, a gradually solid position of drone in agriculture will be formed because more developments will be made in drone technology.
High security
Application of plant protection drone prevents human from directly contacting with drugs by ground remote control and GPS flight control. Artificial intelligence like automatic filling robot can be used even during refueling.
Smaller influence on environment
Plant protection drone adopts sprayer to spread pesticide, which needs a lower operating height and saves 50% pesticide usage and almost 90% water usage. From some extent, the cost is lowered and the way could be more environmental-friendly.
More cost-effective
With the development in technology, a lower price presents for one of the source material ‘Lithium-ion battery’. Take government subsidies into consider, the cost advantages of agricultural drone would be enlarged in very near future.
