## China Is Doing About 30 Times More Agricultural Drone Work Than The U.S. 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 as three hectare-treatments, so that figure measures agricultural work rather than unique farmland covered, but it is the appropriate denominator for machinery utilization. China added roughly 58,000 aircraft and…