The world’s first sharing platform for farm drone technology, Farm Friend is already eyeing a yet bigger role: as a comprehensive, one-stop agritech services provider.
Why
Inefficient pest-control methods
Manual spraying is 15–80 times less efficient than drone spraying, wasting pesticide and water.
Messy farm drone sector
Drone operators aren’t regulated yet, which leads to lack of standards, cutthroat competition.
Hazardous for farm workers
Manual spraying exposes human workers to pesticides, which can have harmful health effects.
Market
RMB 12.8 billion
Forecast value of China’s agriculture drone spraying market by 2021, versus RMB 3.5 billion in 2017. China has over 120 million hectares of farmed land.
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