Digitalization empowers and leads the industrialization of characteristic agriculture

On July 21, 2023, at 9:43:40, the temperature inside the greenhouse was 26 ℃, the humidity was 50.9%, the soil temperature was 15.79 ℃, and the soil humidity was 36.77%… Chili pepper seedlings, tomato seedlings, cucumber seedlings, and other seedlings were growing in good condition. “On July 21, at the Shandong Seed Industry (Lunan) Digital Agriculture Demonstration Park in Fulaishan Street, Juxian County, Yu Donghai, the manager of the demonstration park, watched the red numbers scrolling on the internet monitoring screen inside the greenhouse, showing a satisfied smile.

In the greenhouse of a multi-span greenhouse for seedling cultivation, rows of movable seedling beds are filled with various green vegetable seedlings, which grow happily and are very cute. In the corridor between adjacent seedling beds, there is a straight “standing” guy with a square shaped “head”, which is an intelligent walking sprinkler that can walk upright. The sensor fork is facing the green seedlings on the seedling bed, and data such as where there is water shortage is monitored in real-time for water spraying.

In recent years, Fulaishan Street has continuously promoted the development of seed industry, a characteristic agricultural industrialization, through digital empowerment, and has embarked on a new path of high yield, high-quality, efficient, and ecological characteristic agricultural industrialization.

According to Yu Donghai, traditional agriculture relies on the weather for a living, while modern agriculture is smart agriculture. When encountering seasonal field diseases and pests, or when a cold wave is about to arrive, through big data analysis, the park can also develop a corresponding set of maintenance methods for vegetable seedling cultivation in advance, achieving pre prevention, green cultivation, and standardized cultivation.

Moreover, in addition to the sensing system and monitoring system, the greenhouse also adopts a greenhouse film with characteristics such as dust prevention, tensile resistance, aging resistance, thermal insulation, transparency, and good mist and droplet reduction. It can not only increase crop yield and reduce pesticide use, but also continuously use for 2-3 years or even longer. In terms of planting technology, the park focuses on organic and bacterial fertilizers to enhance soil fertility, deepen the cultivation layer, increase soil water storage and fertilizer storage capacity, not only improve the yield of vegetables cultivated in ridges, but also improve soil permeability.

Looking at the entire multi-span greenhouse, the reporter found that the entire greenhouse is controlled by a controller on the right side, which not only increases air mobility but also achieves the purpose of cooling. By controlling the temperature inside the greenhouse, the seedlings can promote growth uniformly and achieve factory effects; The fill light button is used to supplement the light needed for photosynthesis in the greenhouse; The planting and fertilization process inside the greenhouse is completed using a ground mounted water wheel, seeder, and grafting machine.

At the same time, the demonstration park applies modern agricultural technologies such as the Internet of Things, big data, and artificial intelligence to achieve intelligent production and digital management in crop remote monitoring, temperature and humidity control, water and fertilizer management, disease and pest prevention and control, quality traceability, and other aspects, creating the largest and most technologically advanced smart agriculture demonstration zone in the southern region of Shandong.

In recent years, the Shandong Seed Industry (Lunan) Digital Agriculture Demonstration Park has focused on “revitalizing the national seed industry, ensuring food security” and filling the gap in the lack of seedling bases in the southeastern region of Shandong. Relying on the technical resources of dozens of owned enterprises of Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Shandong Seed Industry Group, it has vigorously cultivated new varieties of crops such as fruits and vegetables and grains, and created a high-end and sustainable modern crop seed industry chain that integrates “breeding, breeding, and sales”.

After development, the Shandong Seed Industry (Lunan) Digital Agriculture Demonstration Park project has been fully completed, which can raise 75 million seedlings and provide more than 200 job opportunities for surrounding villagers, indirectly driving an increase in income for tens of thousands of people. At the same time, relying on the advantageous industries of Shandong Seed Industry Group and its affiliated enterprises, and in collaboration with scientific research institutions such as Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences and China Agricultural University, we carry out research and development, innovation, and cultivation of vegetable seedlings to improve the yield, quality, and disease resistance of vegetables, enabling digital empowerment of the vegetable industry and truly realizing industrial development.