Why can't drones enjoy agricultural machinery subsidies?

Nowadays, drones are playing a more and more important role in agricultural production, and many big growers want to buy a drone for paddy, forest and fruit pest control. However, at present, the price of drones is on the high side, and the cheapest one costs about 100000 yuan, and the price of high-performance drones has to reach 1 million yuan each, which deters many ordinary farmers. Some farmers reported that one of the important reasons why the price of drones is so high is that they can not enjoy national agricultural machinery subsidies, and the costs have to be borne by farmers themselves.

Liu Kexiang, an expert at Tianjin Agricultural Plant Protection Station, said that practice has proved that drones are playing a more and more important role in agricultural production, greatly saving manpower, material resources, and financial resources. According to the design principle, the daily operating area of a UAV can reach more than 300 mu, which is dozens of times that of manual work. In addition, the UAV has the advantages of large working area, uniform spraying and good control effect in spraying pesticides. Up to now, only a very small number of large growers in the city's agricultural districts and counties have purchased drones, with a total of no more than 10, which simply cannot meet the current needs of agricultural production. If we can get the national agricultural machinery subsidy, the purchase cost can be greatly reduced, and the number of farmers will increase greatly.

Relevant experts from the Municipal Agricultural Machinery Service Center told reporters that the reason why agricultural drones were not included in the list of agricultural machinery subsidies is that a national standard for agricultural drones has not yet been formally issued. Because there are no relevant national standards, it is impossible to carry out scientific verification of the performance of UAV products, so it can not be included in the agricultural machinery subsidy catalogue. At present, the agricultural machinery that is included in the national agricultural machinery subsidy has been professionally verified. To this end, they also hope that the relevant state departments will speed up the introduction of national standards for drones, so that buyers can get subsidies for the purchase of drones as soon as possible.

It is understood that one of the important reasons for the difficult delivery of UAV in the national standard is the late use of aviation spraying operation in China, and the lack of systematic and in-depth research on the relevant technical parameters of agricultural UAV. These include: UAV flight altitude, flight speed, the number of spray per unit area, pesticide concentration and so on. In addition, compared with foreign developed countries, there are some gaps in the choice of pesticides in domestic UAV spraying. At present, UAV operations in various places are carried out according to the standards of manufacturing enterprises, but the results are uneven. (Chen Zhongquan)