China Is Doing About 30 Times More Agricultural Drone Work Than The U.S.

CleanTechnica
By Michael BarnardSep 20, 2026, 1:31 pm68 ptsTrending
Agricultural spray drones are no longer an emerging technology in China. They are ordinary farm machinery at extraordinary scale. China entered 2026 with about 309,000 plant-protection drones, and those aircraft performed roughly 203 million hectare-treatments during 2025. A hectare treated three times counts…

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