In recent years, the development of China's plant protection UAV business is very rapid.With the increasingly fierce competition in the domestic market, many companies began to actively go out of foreign countries, open up new space for development .Because of aging and other reasons, Japan's agricultural population plummeted, for plant protection Unmanned aerial vehicles and other intelligent products demand greater, become China's first choice for overseas enterprises.
Japan's agriculture has a high degree of mechanization and advanced agricultural technology, but it is also facing a year-on-year decrease of its practitioners.According to data released by Japan's Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries recently, Japan's agricultural population fell below 2 million for the first time this year, down from 1990 60%, while the population supporting future agricultural production will be further reduced.
The main cause of the sharp decline in Japan's agricultural population is the aging population, with an average age of 67 in Japan's agricultural population, many of whom have to abandon farming as they grow older. In addition, the laborious labor environment, with no fixed rest days, Unstable incomes have left Japanese young people at a distance from agricultural production.
The reduction of the agricultural population is only one of the plight of Japanese agriculture, and the shrinking arable land has also plagued Japan's agriculture. In 2015, Japan's national agricultural land area was 4.496 million hectares, a decrease of 0.5% over the same period of the previous year.
Therefore, in order to solve the above problems, the application of plant protection drone has a long history in Japan's agricultural field and the related market development is quite mature now.According to a report from SeedPlanning, a market research firm in Tokyo, Japan's plant protection UAV market is expected to continue its rapid growth , From 1.2 billion yen in 2016 to 20 billion yen in 2022.
China's plant protection UAV enterprises to open up overseas markets Japan became the first choice
Faced with the tremendous impact of imported agricultural products and the problem of rural aging, Japan's agriculture urgently needs smarter, more efficient and easy-to-operate plant protection equipment to increase production efficiency and solve the problem of labor loss and scarce agricultural high-tech personnel.
Therefore, China's plant protection UAV enterprises in the process of internationalization, the market is mature and has great potential for development of Japan has become the first choice.At present, one of the leaders of the domestic plant protection UAV polar technology has already begun to explore Japan market, and recently released in Japan P20 plant protection UAV system.
KONG Kum-kin, co-founder of Pico Technology, commented: 'Pico is an agricultural science and technology company with an international perspective. We have chosen to launch related equipment in the countries with the highest penetration rate of plant protection drone. We hope to quickly test the technology of Pole-flying With the concept of reducing the use of drone threshold, so that more people can benefit from automated, intelligent plant protection equipment.
Facing fierce competition from Chinese companies Japan's Yamaha to step up its response
Japan's Yamaha share of the sprayed pesticide market accounts for 42.5% of Japan's rice acreage. Its unmanned agricultural helicopters are being used in South Korea, the United States, Australia, New Zealand and Thailand and are the giant players in the Japanese plant protection UAV market.
In the face of pressing harder and harder emerging competitors such as China's plant protection drone business, Yamaha has had to innovate faster to remain competitive in its home country and other overseas markets. Not long ago, Yamaha introduced a FAZERR multi-motor UAVs, which fly four hectares of farm land per flight, can be redirected to different payloads for different missions due to their sophisticated flight control system.
In addition, Yamaha also revealed that it will be unveiling the YMR-01 multi-motor UAV at the next Japan Agricultural Exposition, which will feature a new lightweight carbon fiber body that will provide farmers with a more cost-effective and dedicated solution. -01 The introduction of multi-functional UAVs has not only focused on the Japanese market, but also competed for the world's UAV market with major competitors such as DJI.
Japan Agricultural UAVs still have barriers to automation degree to be improved
According to the guidelines of Japan's Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, drone workers and technical support personnel must be monitored together on site to monitor that the drone will not spray pesticides outside of the farmland when pesticides are sprayed using the drone At present, Japan's plant protection UAV automation and intelligence level there is still much room for improvement.
Japan's Ministry of Agriculture will hold an expert group meeting early next year to discuss ways to ensure the safety of the UAV and then plan to decide whether to allow automatic spraying of pesticides within the fiscal year of the unit.
At present, the high-end products of plant protection UAVs in our country already have great advantages in terms of intelligence level. At the same time, they are also more economical, environmentally-friendly and easy to maintain due to the use of electric power. This is also the advantage of our related companies going global and leading to global competition .