Progress in Agricultural Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) Applied in China and Prospects for Poland

Linlin Wang, Xinrong Huang, Wanjian Li, Kangting Yan, Yifang Han, Yali Zhang, Lucjan Pawlowski and Yubin Lan
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Linlin Wang: College of Electronic Engineering, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China
Xinrong Huang: National Center for International Collaboration Research on Precision Agricultural Aviation Pesticides Spraying Technology, Wushan Road, Guangzhou 510642, China
Wanjian Li: National Center for International Collaboration Research on Precision Agricultural Aviation Pesticides Spraying Technology, Wushan Road, Guangzhou 510642, China
Kangting Yan: College of Electronic Engineering, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China
Yifang Han: College of Electronic Engineering, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China
Yali Zhang: National Center for International Collaboration Research on Precision Agricultural Aviation Pesticides Spraying Technology, Wushan Road, Guangzhou 510642, China
Lucjan Pawlowski: Environmental Engineering Faculty, Lublin University of Technology, 20-618 Lublin, Poland
Yubin Lan: College of Electronic Engineering, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China

Agriculture, 2022, vol. 12, issue 3, 1-43

Abstract: With the acceleration of the Belt and Road Initiative, Poland–China agricultural trade has increasingly strengthened, but there is little exchange or cooperation in agricultural machinery. China’s agricultural UAV industry has flourished over the past 7 years. In China, by using typical food crops and economic crops to control diseases and pests, agricultural drones can reduce the use of fertilizer, pesticides, and water, improve operational efficiency, open up new markets through the ‘sale + services’ mode, and reduce production costs and labor shortages. The spraying of agricultural UAVs and related pest-disease-defense services applied in China are also suitable for Poland’s decentralized, small-scale production modes. By learning from China’s development progress of precision-agriculture aviation, Poland can develop 5th-generation (5G) unmanned intelligent organic farms from traditional organic agriculture, use agricultural UAVs in the spraying of Plant Protection Products (PPPs), and carry out special protection or loss management on typical fruits. Furthermore, by building its own spraying system, aviation industry, and service team, Poland can realize resource optimization, technological empowerment, application expansion, and industrial innovation. Therefore, this paper focuses on the development experience of Chinese agricultural UAVs and discusses its enlightenment to the precision-agriculture aviation application of Poland.

Keywords: China; Poland; agricultural UAV; Belt and Road Initiative; agricultural development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q1 Q10 Q11 Q12 Q13 Q14 Q15 Q16 Q17 Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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