THE TECHNICAL AND ECONOMIC LEVEL OF AGRICULTURAL UAVS: USING DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS METHODOLOGY

DOI 10.32651/209-73

Issue № 9, 2020, article № 12, pages 73-78

Section: Problems of agroeconomic researches

Language: Russian

Original language title: ТЕХНИКО-ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКИЙ УРОВЕНЬ БПЛА СЕЛЬСКОХОЗЯЙСТВЕННОГО НАЗНАЧЕНИЯ: ИСПОЛЬЗОВАНИЕ МЕТОДОЛОГИИ DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS

Keywords: DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS, TECHNICAL AND ECONOMIC LEVEL, AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY, UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAVS)

Abstract: To date, there is no universally accepted methodology for assessing the technical and economic level of agricultural machinery. The scientific literature does not present examples of these calculations for specific brands of agricultural machinery. The authors of this article propose the economic methodology of data envelopment analysis for these purposes, which in this article is used to assess the technical and economic level of agricultural unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). 35 brands of UAVs of various manufacturers have been ranked according to their technical and economic level. With regard to the assessment of the technical and economic level of machines, the basics of the applied data envelopment analysis methodology are set forth, and its difficulties and ways of their resolution are discussed. The only input when calculating the technical and economic level is the retail price of a specific brand of the machine in a particular market. Technical characteristics of the machines act as outputs. To calculate the technical and economic level, a non-oriented SBM model with variable returns to scale is used—a type of data envelopment analysis model. When assessing the technical and economic level of agricultural UAVs, the following technical characteristics were taken into account: flight duration when spraying pesticides, payload, spray width, flight speed, and a number of airscrews.

Authors: Korotchenia Valerii Mikhailovich, Lichman Gennadii Ivanovich