Commercial agricultural drone projects — from spray fleets to autonomous docking.

Mission type (mapping, scouting, spraying, spreading, seeding), treated area per season, terrain and field shape, required payload and tank volume, flight-time and battery logistics, sensor requirement (RGB, multispectral, thermal), local authorisation class, and available trained pilots. Spraying platforms and survey platforms are different purchases with different regulatory paths.

Operator registration, pilot licence category for the aircraft weight and operation, authorisation for aerial application of plant-protection products, approved product list and label compatibility, buffer-zone and drift requirements, insurance, and flight logging obligations. These are set nationally and must be confirmed with the civil aviation authority and the agriculture ministry of the destination country.

Spare batteries and a charging generator, transport cases, RTK base or network subscription, analytics software licences, pilot training and certification, local type approval, spare pumps and nozzles, and post-warranty service response times. Fleet economics are driven by those lines more than by the airframe price.

No. Imagery and vegetation indices indicate where to look; diagnosis, thresholds and treatment decisions remain with a qualified agronomist. Procurement covers the equipment, software and service package, not the agronomic interpretation.

One private brief is submitted; a sourcing specialist reviews it manually, identifies the missing information and normalises it into a single written specification; qualified manufacturers, integrators and EPC contractors are approached only after that internal approval; returned offers are normalised to the same scope, lead time and delivery terms so they can be compared line by line. No supplier is contacted automatically and no buyer contact details are released automatically.

Commercial agricultural projects from USD 250K upward: greenhouses, irrigation and fertigation, water treatment, seed processing and production facilities, nurseries, packhouses and cold chain, agricultural solar and related infrastructure, plus recurring fertilizer and commercial seed supply. Retail and hobby requirements are outside scope.