What are the problems facing our agriculture? What is the direction of the development of intelligent agriculture?

In recent years, with the development of science and technology, the application of high technology in the field of agriculture has also been a significant development, the use of artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, blockchain and other new-generation information technology, to improve the smart agriculture platform for farmers to increase their income and create conditions for income generation, so it is more and more people's attention, but from the national conditions of our country, our country's agriculture is faced with a lot of problems, and the development of some smart agriculture There is still a considerable gap between the better countries. Recognize the reality, identify gaps, in order to start again.

One of the current problems facing China's agriculture

Currently, China's agriculture is still dominated by the smallholder economy, from an individual point of view, with a certain degree of competitiveness, but if you look at the level of industrial resources, labor, but faced with a number of challenges.

From the industrial side, China has about 1.8 billion arable land area, engaged in agricultural production of 700 million 4, an average of less than 2.5 acres to the people, the ability to stabilize the supply is obviously weak, so that agricultural practitioners and farmers exposed to risky sales, not conducive to market competition.

From the resources, China's agricultural investment in research and development energy is significantly weaker than in other areas, below the risk of the ability to be significantly weaker, soil deterioration, water shortages, natural disasters, information asymmetry often lead to farmers' agricultural products to lose a lot of money.

From the labor force point of view, the rural population is aging seriously, the countryside will become more elderly people? gathering and sinking? place, while young farmers would rather go out to work than engage in agricultural labor due to low food prices and high prices of agricultural inputs such as fertilizers and pesticides. As a result, there is always a shortage of labor during the harvest season every year, and agriculture, which is dominated by small farmers, faces the challenge of sustainable development.

After talking about the domestic scene, let's look at how foreign benchmark countries are facing agricultural challenges. Our neighboring Japan, for example, has invested a lot of manpower and resources in research and development and the application of intelligent agricultural technology to achieve ultra-labor-saving and large-scale production, the potential of food crops is also maximized, the production environment is safe and convenient. In particular, the use of Internet technology, the development of the cloud service system, from production, operation to consumer services in three blocks of full coverage.

Taking the German agro-technology industry as another example, the operational efficiency of agriculture has been effectively enhanced through cross-sectoral cooperation between agricultural machinery and communication companies, applying advanced sensing, cloud computing and other technologies.

We can see that these advanced countries in agriculture have integrated cross-field with engineering technology, allowing a traditional industry to move into a new era. On the contrary, there is still a big gap between our investment and R&D in agriculture and these countries.

Therefore, the intelligentization of production, the digitalization of agricultural production and marketing, and the application of cloud technology, big data analysis, the Internet of Things (IoT), intelligent machinery, and sensor equipment to agriculture will promote the innovation, upgrading, and transformation of the domestic agricultural industry, and thus reduce the impact of an aging population, labor shortages, and extreme weather on the agricultural industry.

Second, toward the future of smart agriculture is what?

When a drone flies over a farmland, it transmits information to the cloud, and through cloud computing, it conducts analysis of pesticide and fertilizer application that meets the cost and minimizes environmental damage, etc. Farmers can easily complete field management as long as they are connected to the cloud through their cell phones or tablet computers; remote sensing technology, positioning systems, intelligent decision-making systems, and big-data analysis can be used to bring the problems encountered in agricultural production up to date and in a timely manner. Remote sensing technology, positioning system, intelligent decision-making system, big data analysis, etc. are used to combine the problems encountered in agricultural production with these technologies in a timely manner, and to quickly analyze the soil, crop growth detection and combination with the prevailing climate, thus allowing the system to make decision-making recommendations. Through big data analysis, farmers at the production end can understand the characteristics of crops to adjust the growth conditions of nutrients, irrigation, crop rotation, etc.; use sensors to measure changes in plant water content, soil moisture and temperature to optimize irrigation and adjust the growing environment of crops; and photograph crops and upload them to the cloud to realize sales, so that farmers don't need to leave their own land to participate in the global economic activities.

And consumers can see the production and harvesting process of the agricultural products they order at home just by scanning the QR code; merchants can use the cloud supply chain system to quickly store for agricultural products at all levels of the terminal sales market, and so on. In short, the integration of the above scenarios into agricultural production and marketing activities is one of the visions of the future of smart agriculture.

Three, the future direction of the development of intelligent agriculture

1, to save labor, save labor as the goal, improve operational efficiency

We said earlier, due to the shortage of manpower and the aging of our agriculture is currently facing the problem, therefore, to improve the efficiency of agricultural production, the application of human-computer The use of cooperative machinery as an auxiliary tool allows growers to save labor and time in farming. For example, the traditional watering method requires a lot of manpower and time, and is unable to supply water accurately and stably. By improving the watering machine, the watering direction can be adjusted automatically according to the position of the plant, eliminating the need for human adjustment to reduce the work load, and saving labor and reducing the waste of water.

2, the establishment of a traceability system to ensure the safety of agricultural products

In order to reassure consumers of the safety of agricultural products, if the process from production to sales can be transparent, it will help consumers to build up their confidence, and the product traceability is precisely a shortcut to understand the whole process. Through the traceability system, consumers can simply, accurately, and timely through the network or cell phone APP, query the products of interest, detailed understanding of the production process of agricultural products, product quality, and so on, and then build consumer loyalty to the brand.

From the consumer's point of view, more production information can be obtained; from the producer's point of view, more consumer information can be obtained through consumer habits, which can help in production decisions.

Innovation of science and technology is the most important driving force for agricultural progress, in order to improve the competitiveness of China's agriculture, looking forward to smart agriculture can create a new model of high quality, convenient and humane agriculture, so that China's agriculture from the traditional agriculture to the efficiency of the new era of agriculture, safety and risk control, and to promote the development of smart agriculture, so that the farmers have a chance to increase their income.