China's plant protection link is relatively weak and efficient plant protection machinery short board to be filled

[China Agricultural Machinery Industry News] In China, compared with farming and other agricultural production links, plant protection is still a relatively weak link, and plant protection machinery is a short board. It is understood that the average utilization rate of pesticides in China is only 35%. Most of the pesticides are lost through runoff, leakage, drift, etc., causing pollution to soil and water and affecting the ecological environment of farmland. As an important part of the whole mechanized chain, plant protection has attracted more and more attention from the industry.

China's plant protection link is relatively weak, plant protection machinery short board to be filled

In 2015, the Ministry of Agriculture formulated and issued the “Zero Growth Plan for Zero Use by 2020” (hereinafter referred to as the “Program”). One of the key points in the “Program” is to put the three elements of “medicine, machinery and people”. Coordinated and upgraded, promoted new plant protection machinery, and promoted modern plant protection machinery such as self-propelled sprayer sprayer, normal temperature fog machine, fixed-wing aircraft, helicopter, plant protection drone, etc., using advanced application techniques such as low-volume spray and electrostatic spray. Improve the spray target, reduce drift loss, and improve pesticide utilization. In the past two years, China's agricultural machinery market has shown a downturn overall, while plant protection machinery has maintained its growth momentum because of its potential market demand. Many agricultural machinery manufacturers are optimistic about the blue ocean of plant protection machinery.

Manufacturers are optimistic about plant protection machinery

"As of the end of October, our company has sold 100 orchard plant protection sprayers. The company produces about 200 orchard plant protection sprayers annually. According to the current market situation, it plans to expand production to 500 units next year." Hebei Kangrui Wang Baochuan, general manager of Agricultural Machinery Co., Ltd., is full of confidence in the company's product prospects. It is understood that Kangruil is a company specializing in the production of orchard plant protection machinery. It has been manufacturing plant protection machinery for eight years. The products are mainly sold to fruit trees planting provinces such as Shandong, Shanxi and Shaanxi. “I have been doing plant protection machinery for so many years. I obviously feel that in the past two years, farmers have fully realized the importance of mechanized plant protection. I think there are two trends in the future development of plant protection machinery. One is non-professional development and the other is large-scale mature machinery. Replacing small and medium-sized non-professional products.” Wang Baochuan talked about his own views on the development of plant protection machinery. “I plan to triple the production of fruit tree plant protection machinery next year. At the same time, we are also developing and producing large-scale cotton specifically for Xinjiang. Plant protection machinery."

The enterprises in the "surrounding city" of plant protection machinery want to expand the scale, and enterprises outside the "besieged city" also intend to enter this market. Shandong Tongzhou Machinery Manufacturing Co., Ltd. was originally a company engaged in the production of construction machinery. This year is the year in which the company was involved in the plant protection machine industry. "We have produced the Weikesi brand water and dry plant protection machine, although it is put on the market in the year, but it is sold. Very good, Jiangsu, Anhui, Hubei, and Northeast China have our customers. Currently we are negotiating distributors in Mexico and Southeast Asia, and it is estimated that the products will be exported next year.” Zhang Shuzhou, the general manager of the company, expressed satisfaction with the results this year. “The plant protection machinery market is a sunrise industry with a large market space.”

At this year's China International Agricultural Machinery Exhibition, the reporter found that Yanma and Dongfeng Jingguan two companies exhibited plant protection machinery in unison, and this change from nothing has reflected their confidence in the plant protection machine market. Since the two companies are mainly based on paddy fields, the two plant protection machines exhibited are also self-propelled boom sprayers for paddy operations. According to Liang Bin, the director of the promotion department of Yanma Agricultural Machinery (China) Co., Ltd., the plant protection machinery exhibited from Japan is currently being imported from Japan. Currently, the product is undergoing 3C certification, which can be officially launched in the Chinese market next year. .

Large self-propelled plant protection machine becomes a trend

As China's agricultural production and management model is gradually transformed from decentralized to large grain farmers, family farms, and rural cooperatives, in order to meet the needs of crop pests and diseases, the application of pesticides will become more and more large-scale. It is understood that the large self-propelled spray bar sprayer has the advantages of good mobility, convenience and high work efficiency. It is not restricted by the plot and has no damage to crops. It is suitable for rice, wheat, corn and other crops. By improving the technical performance of the atomization effect, droplet size, penetration performance and distribution uniformity, the utilization rate of pesticides can be greatly improved. According to estimates, the self-propelled sprayer sprayer has a pesticide utilization rate of about 50%, which is higher than 20%-40% of the manual sprayer and 30%-50% of the piggyback motorized sprayer. The single single operation efficiency is manual spray. 85 times the machine and 15 times the motorized sprayer. In addition, the self-propelled spray bar spray plant protection machinery can not only be used for drugs, but also can be used for sowing, spreading, etc. It has a wide application range and long working time, and is more suitable for social services, so the market prospect is promising.

Indeed, at this year's China International Agricultural Machinery Exhibition, the plant protection machinery exhibited by many agricultural machinery companies can be called "big behemoths", which is very eye-catching. Shandong Huasheng Agricultural Medicine Machinery Co., Ltd. exhibited several self-propelled sprayer sprayer spray nozzles with a spray width of more than 12 meters and a width of 21 meters. According to the company's manager Wang Xuezhi, the main target customers of these large plant protection machinery For cooperatives and large grain farmers. The water-dry dual-purpose self-propelled sprayer sprayer exhibited by Dongfeng Jingguan can reach a width of 12 meters. At the same time, it can also be used to fertilize crops by replacing parts, and the machine can be used for both. In addition to farmers, they also signed contracts with pesticide manufacturers, and pesticide manufacturers purchased machinery in groups to provide plant protection services for farmers.” The company’s sales manager, Mr. Yan Renxiang, introduced. This way, it undoubtedly also provides a new sales direction for large self-propelled plant protection machinery.

Unmanned plant protection machine is maturing and still expects the standard to be introduced

The unmanned plant protection machine has become the plant protection star of the past two years. Due to its high spraying efficiency, flexible operation and manpower saving, its appearance in rural fields is also getting higher and higher. Many people in the industry think that this is the unmanned plant protection machine. The market potential is huge. UAV manufacturing companies are also constantly improving themselves in this spring breeze for better development.

It is reported that at the China International Agricultural Machinery Exhibition this year, a total of 24 agricultural drone manufacturers participated in the exhibition, and the market's fiery degree is evident. Feifei Technology is one of the exhibitors. It is understood that at the Extreme Flying Technology Annual Conference on October 10, Extreme Flying Technology released the P202017 plant protection drone system and announced the sales and leasing business. Extreme Flying Technology has expanded from the previous “selling service only” to now selling “service aircraft”. According to the technical personnel of the company, the new P20 plant protection drone system has been optimized in terms of hardware and software, flying and spraying more. Safety, plant protection efficiency has also increased from 60 acres / hour to 80 acres / hour. In addition to providing users with a complete set of highly automated and reliable plant protection drone systems, Extreme Flying Technology has also built a system of safeguards and training, including the “Fly Flying Guarantee” business and the “Flying School”, by providing more Complete service gives users peace of mind. All along, the lack of supporting services is a major bottleneck in the development of plant protection drones in China. This move of Feifei Technology has undoubtedly set an example for the domestic drone market to break through the bottleneck.

Plant protection drones have become more and more "flying" into the field. This has become an unstoppable trend. However, due to factors such as imperfect industry standards, lack of regulatory systems, complex operational operations, and lack of basic services, many people do not have plant protection. The man-machine is still on the sidelines. It is understood that only Henan, Hunan and Fujian provinces have implemented subsidy policies for the purchase of agricultural drones. Only Shenzhen has developed a relatively complete standard system for various types of civil drones. long way to go.

(Original title: Plant Protection Machine Market: Compensating for the shortcomings against the trend)