The status of China's domestic agricultural drone market

As of June 2025, the scale of China's agricultural plant protection drone market reached 18.7 billion yuan, and the emergency logistics drone market increased by 34% year-on-year.

Full support is given at the policy level. The "Guidelines for the Construction of Intelligent Drone Emergency Support System" requires that administrative regions above the county level be equipped with at least 3 sets of long-endurance drone systems, strengthen disaster response capabilities, and fully implement national agricultural machinery subsidies.

Actively expand the use scenarios of agricultural drones, and deeply promote the use of agricultural drones in the fields of rice and grain and oil crop management, cash crops and cotton field management.

Various agricultural drone brands have been committed to performance and intelligent upgrades. The new generation of plant protection drones developed are equipped with AI systems, with centimeter-level tillage accuracy, real-time obstacle avoidance and tillage trajectory recording functions, and the daily operation volume of a single machine reaches 500 acres.

In 2025, the agricultural plant protection drone industry will present the three major characteristics of "accelerated technology iteration, strengthened policy empowerment, and diversified scenarios", extending from traditional farmland management to emergency logistics and smart agricultural system integration. In the future, it is necessary to break through the bottlenecks of standard formulation and subsidy mechanisms to further release the potential for large-scale applications.