Where is the pain?
The LED agricultural lighting market is closely related to the development of modern agriculture. However, at present, there are still many difficulties in the development of facility agriculture such as plant factories, and the application of LED light sources is not very sufficient.
At present, the pain point of LED agricultural lighting application lies in profitability. It is very important to establish a sustainable and profitable business model. Although safety, environmental protection and food quality are highly valued, domestic consumption capacity is still limited. LED application in agriculture tends to focus on high added value. For example, high-income crops such as nursery, ornamental flowers, and Chinese herbal medicines are limited to the domestic environment, and many related companies have turned to foreign countries.
In contact with domestic and foreign customers, visit many planting areas, including some agricultural companies selling agricultural products, as well as places to study plant factories, will find some differences in agricultural development at home and abroad.
On the one hand, domestic agricultural products lack some good and novel marketing systems. In the market competition, in fact, agricultural and sideline products have not introduced brand and quality concepts. If there is a novel sales system, such a system can introduce certification, quality, brand, increase the added value of agricultural products, and distinguish the vegetable level, which is very important for the cultivation of the market environment.
On the other hand, domestic management technology needs to be upgraded. Compared with foreign mature farm management systems, domestic agricultural cooperatives, etc., are still in the stage of extensive management. From the output link to the sales link, there are few other deep processing such as preservation. Some foreign plant factories, such as greenhouse crops, are heavily invested, but they still have profit or meager profits. Due to the privatization of land, their land costs are very low, they can continue to operate, and they are required to update their light source equipment. In contrast, the country is still in the initial stage of farm management, and management technology needs to be improved. Many farms' land is in the form of contracting. Many farm operators do not have a strong willingness to invest heavily. They want to see more than continuous operations. The product can recover the cost in one year and one season, which is unfavorable to the development of facility agriculture. The product will be narrower and narrower in the process of reducing costs. The industry needs attention in the future.
Cost price, disproportionate input and output is also the current pain point. As far as investment is concerned, domestic investment is not high. Foreign greenhouse cultivation is often very expensive, and the management system is very mature. From deep processing to sales, including transportation and storage, there is not much additional cost. In the domestic process, the cost of the intermediate link is very high, and the cost of crops is also high. In fact, the income of the farmers at the planting end is not very high, and it may be the lowest part of the profit. In this situation, although the cost of LED light source is continuously decreasing, it is still a high point compared with the traditional light source.
Some insiders said that the current profitability of plant factories and so on has a great relationship with the cost, high initial input costs, and high operating costs, such as electricity costs, winter heating, summer cooling costs and labor costs. In addition, the logistics cost is also high. Unlike foreign countries, the domestic cold chain system is not perfect, the intermediate links are many, the loss rate is high, the price is high, and the cost is reduced. It also needs all the links of the entire industrial chain.
How is the way out?
Obviously, the glare of the LED agricultural lighting market depends on the development of modern agriculture that requires artificial light. With the continuous improvement of LED technology and the continuous decline in cost and price, how to better develop the agricultural market, as well as the exploration of business models and achieve sustainable profitability have become the focus of industry enterprises.
The plant factory is one of the main areas of LED agricultural lighting application. Nowadays, there are many large and small plant factories. Xu Hong believes that from the perspective of plant factory development, it adopts small-scale, distributed and close to consumers, while pinpointing And product portfolio, saving intermediate links, is an important way to develop the agricultural market.
At the current stage, it is still relatively profitable for vegetables and medicinal products with high added value. For product positioning, some insiders believe that products grown in plant factories cannot be compared with Datian products, otherwise they will become narrower and narrower. In addition, if the plant factory's products can be combined with some restaurants, it will help to increase the commercial value of the plant.
For the light-filling facilities, technology improvement and cost reduction are long-term inevitable trends. Pu Min believes that this trend is difficult to solve the problem of profitability in plant factories and other short-term, and the new marketing model is conducive to the enhancement of agricultural products. The value, and the change of the agricultural product market environment, will in fact open up some new roads for the family plant factory. The current novel marketing models, such as Jingdong, Cheike Home, etc., have some new sales methods, which deserve attention.
To realize a sustainable and profitable plant factory on a business model, there are several angles to consider. First, do not simply grow vegetables, and you can open up products with high economic value such as Sanqi and Dendrobium. The second is that in the structural design, ecological, mobile, and small-scale plant factories can be adopted, which can be linked, so that the supply chain can do a little more. The third is the crowd positioning, and there must be precise users. Guaranteed profit.
At a stage where the technology level is at a certain steady state, the business model is actually very important compared to considering technological breakthroughs. Nowadays, semiconductor lighting technology has developed to a certain stage. The cross-border era of agriculture and LED industry is coming. Industry companies need to carefully and consistently explore the cross-border value of the industrial chain, create deep value for customers, adhere to technological innovation, and maximize value. Great development.
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