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Agriculture production is undergoing a huge transformation because to technology. An rising number of cutting-edge technologies are encroaching on farmlands with the arrival of 5G, satellites, big data, the internet, and intelligent machinery, making the traditional reliance on manual labor and weather-based farming methods outdated. Agriculture technology is now seen to be a necessary component of Chinese farmers' daily lives rather than just a passing fad or novelty. Now that technology has entered silos nationally, farmers are able to grow the best crops utilizing the best technologies, strengthening the food security of the country.
The "Golden Land" and Agricultural Revival in Jilin Achieve Adequate Fulfillment
Jilin, a significant agricultural province situated within the "Golden Corn Belt," is an important center for the nation's production of commodity grains. The modernization of agriculture in Jilin has advanced rapidly in recent years, with an emphasis on enhancing agriculture through technology and maintaining food security. By 2019, the annual grain production had continuously exceeded 70 billion jin for seven years. Jilin's grain sowing area surpassed 85.5 million mu in 2020, and a thorough mechanization rate of more than 90% is anticipated for the main crops.
Agriculture's Hardy Core Technology
Who would have imagined farming could be that sophisticated? Han Fuwang, a 66-year-old senior farmer at the Baiao Green Farm in Da'an City, Jilin Province, is in awe of how his rice fields have been modernized. He used to physically water his rice fields, beginning as early as three or four in the morning, using his years of knowledge to gauge how much water to discharge. However, he can now manage the water flow with only one mouse click on his computer.
A variety of tough core technologies are present in the fields. With each plot having water level sensors at the intake valve, the fields are cleanly segmented into plots. The smart system receives information from the sensors whenever the water level changes and uses it to compute and send commands to autonomously regulate irrigation. A flow meter, which is the long pipe next to the canal, is used to automatically measure the water flow in the canal and, through recorded analysis, achieve water-saving and accurate irrigation.
According to Ge Yanyun, the technical lead of the Bai'ao Green Farm in Da'an City, "We have also applied a significant amount of intelligent machinery in actual production, including unmanned crop protection machines, unmanned seed planters, and unmanned harvesters."
Jilin has also employed high-tech tools like satellites to help farmers with planting in order to increase the efficiency of food production. Qu Chunmei, the director of agricultural and forest applications at Changguang Satellite Technology Co., Ltd., stated that in the past, staff members had to measure the extent of land that was being farmed step by step. Staff can identify the kind and area of crops immediately on a picture by using the "Jilin No. 1" satellite constellation. They can also evaluate the image data to determine the crops' seedling condition, growth rate, and level of drought, and estimate yields. In Jilin Province's Agricultural Anxian County, this technology has undergone testing.
Technology that is cutting edge accurately "Takes the Pulse"
Farmers can download helpful information as needed to understand crop growth and pest and disease information by installing a new type of multi-spectral camera weighing less than 300 grams on an unmanned aerial vehicle, flying around crops for one week, and collecting data. This data is automatically transmitted to the cloud-based big data platform.
Zhang Junqiang, the research fellow at the Institute of Optics, Mechanics and Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the creator of the new multispectral camera, claims that in the past, farmers mostly depended on experience and visual observations to gauge the growth of crops. This conventional approach has drawbacks such a lack of precision. The spectrographic camera is a simpler and more practical technology that directly generates an agricultural prescription image, enabling farmers to accurately diagnose and cure their crops. The spectrographic camera and data are now even more available to common growers thanks to the cloud-based big data platform. Regional testing of this technology has already taken place in Xinjiang, Shandong, and Jilin. Future services for scientifically practical field control of crop emergence rate, growth, pest infestations, etc. will be available for purchase by farmers.
Expertise with deep roots in the industry
In Quanyan Gou Village, Lisu Town, Lishu County, Jilin Province, the corn is flourishing in late July. Reporters were told by farmer Zhang Wendi that he contracted 420 hectares of maize with an output of 24,000 jin per hectare, giving the cooperative society more than 100,000 jin of high-quality commercial corn annually.
The basic building block of food production is land cultivation. When planting crops directly in the spring using conservation tillage seed drills or strip tillage, Zhang Wendi maintains black soil primarily by using conservation tillage techniques, which include covering all corn straw in the fall.
For many years, researcher Guan Yixin of the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Northeastern Geography and Agricultural Ecology has researched and advocated for conservation tillage practices. He tells reporters that a comparison of data demonstrates that, when protective tillage techniques are used, black soil erosion may be reduced, soil organic matter content can be increased, and maize growth can be improved.
Green rice fields can be seen for miles in Ga Shi Gen village, Zhenlai county, Baicheng city, Jilin province, with the sound of rustling rice leaves booming in the breeze. Working diligently in the fields is Jilin Academy of Agricultural Sciences associate researcher Ma Wei.
One of the three biggest sodium-alkali land zones in the globe, where Baicheng city is situated, has a lot of alkaline soil. Planting rice is one method for managing alkaline terrain. High-quality rice with a high added value is grown on alkaline ground that is properly managed.
Ma Wei, a 7-year resident of Zhenlai county, has promoted superior salt-tolerant rice cultivars, enhanced agricultural practices, and built tillage layers to ameliorate alkaline soil. Ga Shi Gen village has produced 276,000 mu of irrigated land as a result of the combined efforts of him and his predecessors, and a growing number of farmers are experimenting in the rice fields and looking into new models of "rice-crab co-cultivation.
