As the consumer market for drones slows down, the Chinese drone maker, DJI shifted its focus to agriculture drone applications. According to an article in the Financial Times, DJI has increased spending to promote its products to Chinese farmers. The company reportedly doubled its domestic sales of agricultural drones last year, resulting in 20,000 unmanned aircraft sold to spray pesticides in China.
hina’s DJI, the world’s leading commercial drone company, doubled domestic sales of agricultural drones last year and is now increasing spending on promoting its products to Chinese farmers as the consumer market is projected to slow.
DJI…, …sold 20,000 agricultural drones for spraying pesticides in China last year, and about 2,000 in Japan and South Korea.
…Yasha Chen, sales director of the company’s agriculture department. DJI planned to spend more than Rmb20m ($2.98m) to subsidise agricultural sales agents and shops this year, he added.
Sales of commercial drones used for photography made up the bulk of the company’s sales of 375,000 units in 2017, according to consultancy IDC.
Chinese media reported last year that DJI believed growth of the global market for consumer drones would slow to below 10 per cent after 2020, while industrial drone sales would continue to double annually.
DJI estimates that about one-third of the country’s farmland could ultimately be served by drones.
Intelligent Agriculture is the trend of all over the world. And the intelligent drone act as a important role in this world plan.
Agriculture spraying drone can replace the traditional pesticide sprayer and it's speed is 40times of the traditional sprayer. It will save 90% water and 30%-40% pesticide. Small droplet diameter make the pesticide more well-distribute and improve the effect. At the same time, it will make the people faraway from the pesticide and reduce the pesticide remain of the crop.
Contact: Fly Dragon Drone Tech.
Email: frank at dronefromchina.com
Add: NO. 9 Dayu Road PiDu distric, ChengDu 611730, China