Smart agriculture increases benefits

By the Tuanpo Lake, known as the “Lung of Tianjin”, lambs with “electronic ID cards” undergo physical examinations and live in the “Lake View Room” of Tianjin Aoqun Animal Husbandry Co., Ltd. Their growth status is monitored 24/7. The breeding model of “technology+animal husbandry” has enabled livestock enterprises in Jinghai District, Tianjin to create a new “sheep networking” platform and a national level meat sheep performance testing center. The development of animal husbandry has been included in the implementation plan of the comprehensive promotion of rural revitalization in Jinghai District. We are confident in promoting animal husbandry as a prosperous industry that helps farmers increase income, “said Lu Xiaofang, the director of the Aoqun Animal Husbandry Breeding Farm.

To implement the ‘local specialty’ cultivation project, relying solely on agriculture itself is not enough. We must rely on technology and reform to achieve the integration and development of agriculture and other industries, “said Ren Yongjiang, director of the Jinghai District Agriculture and Rural Committee.

Entering the Old Liu Fruit and Vegetable Farm in Sanbao Village, Taitou Town, Jinghai District, the plump and symmetrical melons are growing happily. Farm manager Liu Shukui said that in the smart greenhouse, melon cultivation is a technical activity. By installing clean energy (methanol) intelligent heating and gas supply fertilizer equipment, the yield and quality of muskmelon have been guaranteed, and the planting mode is also more environmentally friendly. Liu Shukui introduced that last year, the yield of each crop of sweet melons in the smart greenhouse was at least 1000 kilograms higher than that in a regular greenhouse, and the greenhouse increased income by nearly 60000 yuan over 3 acres.

Doing a good job in the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas, Jinghai’s “schedule” is fully arranged. On this table, there are “development calendars” for specialty products such as watermelon and jujube, “red bars” for grain, vegetable planting area, and supply of meat, eggs, and milk, as well as “one axis, two belts” cultural and tourism brand planning. There are also renderings of the National Intelligent Agriculture R&D Innovation Center and unmanned farm demonstration base.

At the construction site of the Jinghai Intelligent Agriculture Research Institute project, the first and second phases of the project are accelerating. The head of the relevant department of Jinghai Intelligent Agriculture Research Institute said that after the project is completed, a group of domestically leading agricultural intelligent systems and equipment with independent intellectual property rights will be developed, and a high-tech industrial park will be used to create an incubation platform for industry, academia, and research integration, promoting the construction of the “Intelligent Agriculture Famous Film” in Jinghai District.