Smart agriculture empowers summer management

During the midsummer season, everything is thriving and the scenery is diverse. The whole county of Henan Province’s Sheqi is seizing the agricultural season and making every effort to organize summer agricultural production. New technologies and models are continuously injecting new vitality and momentum into agricultural production. In the fields, there are “ears and eyes”, in the clouds, there are “brains”, and in the fields, there are “doctors”. Digital technology empowers summer management, laying a solid foundation for autumn grain yield and harvest, and technology helps agriculture achieve high-quality development.

The thousands of acres of high standard and efficient water-saving irrigation demonstration area in Wangying Village, Haozhai Town, the county, features large sprinkler irrigation machines slowly moving and countless nozzles spraying out “water umbrellas” to accurately irrigate vegetables.

He Changxian, Secretary of the Party Branch of Wangying Village, said: In the past, the water used to be life-saving water, and it was only poured when the drought was too severe. The labor time was relatively long and the cycle was long. Now, this mode of watering is for high yield and harvest water, and timely watering is needed. Due to water conservation and energy conservation, it can increase production by around 20-30% compared to traditional irrigation methods.

In addition to well-established farmland, water conservancy, and road network facilities, the field monitoring system that integrates meteorological, soil moisture, and pest monitoring has also become a good “helper” for summer field management. The field intelligent monitoring system can transmit various data in real-time to the intelligent agricultural control center. The administrator can intelligently analyze the soil moisture, insect pest, and meteorological conditions of the farmland through the data displayed on the screen, providing a basis for scientific management of the farmland.

In recent years, Haozhai Town has actively planned to build a high standard high-efficiency water-saving irrigation demonstration zone for farmland, create a smart agricultural water-saving irrigation and fertilization system, and improve the management ability of smart agriculture and the level of modern agricultural automatic irrigation.

Qin Jiuyang, member of the Party Leadership Group of Sheqi County Agricultural and Rural Bureau, said, “By the end of last year, Sheqi County had built more than 270000 mu of high standard farmland. It is planned to build 30000 mu of high standard farmland demonstration area in 2023, and the project is currently under construction. Through project construction, irrigation automation, water fertilizer integration, and intelligent field management have been achieved to ensure stable and high yield of grain.”

Farmland has a “smart brain”, and more and more agricultural equipment full of “smart models” are showcasing their skills in the field. In Sheqi County Shengkang Crop Planting Professional Cooperative, experts from the Smart Agriculture Center are relying on remote sensing satellite field patrol technology to check the growth of corn online.

Digital technology empowers the development of industries, and smart agriculture, as a modern new agricultural production method, has become a form of agricultural technology innovation. In the greenhouse of the satisfied vegetable base in Lidian Town, Sheqi County, all kinds of vegetables are growing well. Smart agricultural facilities such as intelligent temperature control systems and integrated water and fertilizer facilities make the greenhouse look modern and agricultural production “easier” and “more scientific”.

In order to meet the needs of modern agricultural development, in recent years, Sheqi County has introduced a series of “smart agriculture” development concepts such as “vegetable Internet of Things” and “water fertilizer integration”, and has established a series of standard systems including agricultural product quality, agricultural production technology and agricultural services.

It has become a consensus to vigorously develop smart agriculture and demand food from technology. The application of the new generation of information technology is presenting a new harvest prospect for agricultural production. In recent years, Sheqi has vigorously promoted rural revitalization, accelerated the Digital transformation of agriculture, empowered modern agriculture with Big data and intelligence, inserted the “wings” of the Internet into traditional agriculture, and effectively promoted the high-quality development of agricultural and rural economy.