Zhengxiang District: New Chapter of Smart Agriculture Spectrum Empowered by Science and Technology

Recently, when we walked into the Smart Agriculture Demonstration Base in Zhengxiang District, Hengyang City, we not only saw the vegetables that were growing well, but also the supporting facilities with a strong sense of technology.

The person in charge of the Smart Agriculture Demonstration Base said: The base is equipped with an intelligent temperature control system that can adjust the temperature inside the greenhouse and automatically release air. The positioning monitoring and intelligent precise management system directly controls water and fertilizer management through wireless remote control switches. The planting data system, relying on big data networking, achieves real-time transmission of vegetable management data. Mechanization, big data, Internet of Things, artificial intelligence and other new generation information technologies are widely used here, leading to agricultural production moving forward Modernization has been achieved.

In recent years, Zhengxiang District has always adhered to the modern agricultural development principles of “regional layout, large-scale production, industrial development, and socialized services”, and vigorously promoted the construction of smart agriculture through methods such as “typical guidance, policy support, industrial support, technological innovation, and brand management”.

With strong support from agricultural and rural departments at the provincial and municipal levels, Zhengxiang District has taken the lead in building a smart agriculture demonstration base of 2000 acres in the province, equipped with over 30 high standard sunlight greenhouses, multi-span greenhouses (equipped with automatic window opening, rolling curtains, and external shading automatic opening and closing systems, fan and water curtain cooling equipment, automatic control cabinets, and automated operations), over 100000 square meters, standardized pre cooling facilities of over 3000 cubic meters, and water fertilizer integrated facilities of 2000 acres, Three sets of intelligent IoT control system, big data management system, and two sets of agricultural product cold chain circulation system. At present, the base has basically achieved scale, standardization, and industrialization, with a complete industrial chain and integration of primary, secondary, and tertiary industries, radiating to surrounding townships and driving over 2000 households. The social and economic benefits are very significant.

At the same time, applying digital information as a new agricultural production factor to the base has changed the traditional working methods in the fields, making mobile phones new agricultural tools and data new agricultural materials, allowing farmers to see the actual benefits of digital agriculture. With the joint assistance of scale, digitization, and technology, planting efficiency has improved, farmers’ income has increased, and agriculture in Hunan is stronger, rural areas are more beautiful, and farmers are richer.

Zhengxiang District attaches great importance to smart agriculture and adheres to the development of smart agriculture as the goal of promoting agricultural efficiency and increasing farmers’ income. It takes the promotion of famous, high-quality, and specialty fruit and vegetable industries as an important lever for the development of modern agriculture. Through active exploration and bold innovation, it proposes the development concept of “government guidance, unified planning, group development, and mutual benefit and win-win”, A leading group for the construction of a smart agriculture demonstration base was established, led by the main person in charge of the government of Zhengxiang District, to coordinate and coordinate the construction work of the base. The document “Reward and Compensation Measures for the Development of Modern Agricultural Industry in Zhengxiang District” has been issued, which has increased the reward and compensation efforts for smart agriculture on the basis of providing preferential policies to the country, province, and city. The introduction of various preferential policies has greatly mobilized the enthusiasm of various agricultural enterprise entities to develop smart agriculture and promoted the construction of smart agriculture demonstration bases.