Zhou Dehua, a rice grower at the Seven Star Branch of Beidahuang Agriculture Co., Ltd., is busy organizing data for his experimental field during the winter break. Having been planting rice for more than 20 years, he is familiar with the earth shaking changes that have occurred in agriculture in these years.
Farming is much easier now than in the past, and various high-tech means are making it easier for farmers to farm Zhou Dehua listed one by one that in spring, unmanned rice transplanters with Beidou navigation system were brought into the fields, which not only reduced labor costs but also improved the quality of rice transplants. In summer, we used drones to spray pesticides, which was both time and labor saving. In addition, for large-scale harvester operations in autumn, we farmers no longer need to “watch the weather and eat” like before.
Electric precision seeders instead of manual sowing, drone spraying instead of back pot spraying, intelligent water-saving irrigation instead of flood irrigation… Qixing Branch, which has put the wings of technology into agriculture, has embarked on a path of high yield, cost saving and efficiency increasing.
In recent years, Qixing Branch has utilized “digital+” to empower agriculture, established a hundred acre experimental area, a thousand acre demonstration area, a ten thousand acre promotion area, and a 500000 acre smart agricultural planting area. It has focused on creating a new digital agriculture model with “ten thousand acre unmanned farms” as the main carrier, completed the unmanned operation of intelligent agricultural machinery for cultivation, planting, management, and harvesting, developed an intelligent control platform, and an unmanned farm management system.
Zhang Yafei, Director of the Science and Technology Information Office of Qixing Branch, introduced that Qixing Branch focuses on building a 15000 acre “unmanned farm”, where platform systems are integrated and new technologies for smart agriculture are integrated, achieving the transformation and upgrading of agricultural production from precision and intelligence to unmanned. At the same time, Qixing Branch strives to build the “unmanned farm” into a replicable and scalable new model of smart agriculture, gradually expanding its application scale.
At the Beidahuang Intelligent Agricultural Machinery Center of the Seven Star Branch, staff stand in front of the digital agriculture display platform. With just a click of the mouse, the operation trajectory of the agricultural machinery is clearly presented in front of them. A computer and a system can conduct real-time monitoring of soil fertility, crop growth, yield evaluation, and other aspects in the field. The entire agricultural production process only requires the operation of mobile phones and computer systems to achieve “sitting in the office farming”.
Smart agriculture is actually a process of replacing manual operations with intelligent and digital methods, which in fact reduces labor costs and increases efficiency. At the same time, large-scale mechanized operations also play a role in unifying standards and improving the quality of operations, “said Zhang Yafei.
It is understood that Qixing Branch has built 200 field monitoring points, 20 small meteorological stations, 20 groundwater level monitoring points, 20 leaf age diagnosis and monitoring equipment, 8 intelligent seedling greenhouses, and 1 intelligent irrigation equipment. By digitizing the entire process and scene of rice planting, a data loop of “intelligent perception, intelligent decision-making, and intelligent execution” is achieved, forming an integrated “sky and land” intelligent agricultural perception system. The intelligent agricultural decision-making system based on the intelligent agricultural brain, as well as the intelligent execution system based on unmanned driving and prescription maps, have achieved the informatization, digitization, and intelligence of the entire process of rice planting, Create a new model of ‘unmanned farm’.
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