Spraying Fruit Trees With Drones, Will This Be A New Breakthrough For EAVISION Agricultural Drones?

There are indeed many mechanization difficulties in fruit tree planting. Complex terrain is one aspect, and fruit tree growers have insufficient understanding of technologies such as drones. In addition, the 2022 Central No. 1 document pointed out that in order to ensure food security, guide the newly developed forest and fruit industry to go uphill and not compete with grain. After the "fruit tree goes up the mountain", the mechanized practice will also become more difficult.

EAVISION targets the pain points of fruit farmers.

Guangzhou Zengcheng is the famous hometown of lychees in the country. Two years ago, He Zhijie, a Zengcheng native, took over his father's hundreds of acres of lychee orchards. The most thorny problem he faced was pest control. He told Jiemian News that due to the unstable weather in Guangzhou, the window period for applying medicine to fruit trees is very short.

Agriculture drone company spraying solves this problem. The relevant person in charge of EAVISION told Jiemian News that the operation efficiency of drones is more than 10 times that of manual work, and it is not affected by terrain, and can be automated even on slopes. In addition, the technological characteristics of drones can be used to spray the hearts of fruit trees, and due to the use of low-volume and high-concentration chemical solutions, it can improve the utilization rate of pesticides and reduce agricultural water consumption.

He Zhijie said that in the past, it took 9 workers 4 days to spray the 400-acre lychee garden, while using the drone only required 1 pilot and 1 ground crew to work for 2 days. In 2020, the comprehensive cost of pest control in the lychee garden he operates reached 410,000 yuan, but after the use of drones in 2021, the labor cost and drug cost dropped to 110,000 yuan.

It is a long-term plan of EAVISION Agriculture to allow more farmers and more scenarios to use drones. Six years ago, EAVISION officially entered the plant protection and flight defense industry. So far, the application scenarios of EAVISION agricultural drones have expanded to various fields such as pesticide spreading, fertilizer feed spreading, and farmland surveying and mapping.

The above-mentioned person in charge said that in the field of fruit trees, EAVISION drones have covered more than 20 kinds of fruits, and have achieved large-scale applications in many main fruit tree production areas, such as the sugar orange and wo orange production areas in Guangxi, and the lychee and longan production areas in Guangdong. area, navel orange producing area in Jiangxi, mango producing area in Hainan, etc.

However, compared with other crops, the application of drones in the field of fruit trees is still in the budding stage, and the coverage area and varieties are less than 10%. On the one hand, fruit tree growers are not very aware of the application of drones; on the other hand, the economic value of fruit trees is high, and the income per mu of land can reach tens of thousands of yuan. At present, the efficiency of drones has not yet fully convinced fruit farmers to introduce them on a large scale. drone.

But because of this, EAVISION believes that there is still a lot of room for drones to expand in the field of fruit trees. In addition to pesticide spraying, EAVISION agricultural drones are also used in fields such as pollination, fruit transportation, sapling transportation, orchard 3D modeling, fruit tree growth monitoring, and yield estimation. EAVISION judges that once these applications achieve marginal commercial benefits, they will soon become popular.

Spraying Fruit Trees With Drones, Will This Be A New Breakthrough For EAVISION Agricultural Drones?