Smart Agriculture Expo: Unlocking New Agricultural Technologies

The first 2023 Smart Agriculture Expo recently opened in Weifang, Shandong. Enterprises from more than 20 countries and regions including China, Germany, and Israel participated in the exhibition, showcasing numerous "high-precision, cutting-edge, and new" services, technologies, and equipment in the agricultural field, fully showcasing the achievements of smart agriculture development, promoting exchanges and integration among countries, and helping common development.

At present, it is an important season for wheat field spring pipe. At the first Smart Agriculture Expo in 2023, the reporter saw that the distribution and growth of wheat planting in Shandong Province were clear at a glance on the agricultural and rural remote sensing application monitoring platform. Luo Xiubin, a researcher at the Agricultural Information and Economics Research Institute of Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, introduced that the precise monitoring of the agricultural "Tianyan" provides efficient services for the production, operation, and management of the planting industry. If any diseases or pests occur, they can be detected in a timely manner and measures can be taken in advance.

Moreover, at this Smart Agriculture Expo, infiltration irrigation and water-saving technology has also attracted a lot of attention. "Infiltration irrigation is the process of burying infiltration pipes at a depth of 30 centimeters underground, with intervals of about 60 centimeters, which are equivalent to capillaries in the human body. Through these infiltration pipes, water is directly injected into the root soil. This technology has a high water and fertilizer utilization rate, saving 60% of water and 30% of water compared to sprinkler irrigation and drip irrigation, and generally saving 50% of fertilizer." said Guo Xinwei, General Manager of Smart Water Saving Branch of Water Power Group Co., Ltd.

Opening the smart management system for farmland, the reporter saw different plots displaying three colors: red, yellow, and green. "Red represents the urgent problem that needs to be solved now, otherwise it will affect yield; yellow represents the problem that needs to be solved in the next three days; green represents relatively stable and no problems." Guo Xinwei introduced that the system provides operation plans for different growth stages of different crops based on the information collected by commonly used monitoring equipment such as soil moisture, meteorology, pest situation, and seedling situation, and provides red yellow green diagrams, It is equivalent to installing "traffic lights" on farmland.

The farmland intelligent management system displays red, yellow, and green plots. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Shao Kun

A ship has 16 cabins, and the passengers are not humans, but big yellow croakers. The cabins are not above the water surface, but underwater. The underwater camera inside the cabin monitors real-time indicators such as water temperature, dissolved oxygen, pH value, etc. Each compartment contains 6000 cubic meters of seawater, which is circulated 16 times a day. This 100000 ton smart fishery large scale breeding factory ship carries large yellow croaker and cruises in the sea 70 to 100 nautical miles away from the coast for a long time. 250 grams of fish fry can grow into over 1 pound of finished yellow croaker after growing here for six months. There are also automatic feeding, intelligent fishing, and packaging operation systems on board.

According to Chen Zhengbin, the person in charge of the Comprehensive Management Department of Qingdao Guoxin Blue Silicon Valley Development Co., Ltd., based on the environmental factors such as the favorite water temperature of yellow croakers, ships can self navigate and transfer to different sea areas in the north and south, such as Fujian, Zhejiang, and Shandong, to find their favorite water areas. The breeding factory ship can also pull these fish to avoid red tide and green tide in time, so as to improve the survival rate of breeding.

Due to the application of technology, people's traditional impressions of agriculture and animal husbandry are being overturned. Agriculture is becoming increasingly intelligent. The series of new technological achievements at the exhibition are full of hope for the future of agriculture and life.

Source: Xinhua News Agency