Clever Use of Internet Technology in Winter Grape Cultivation

The photo shows Liu Wei carefully tending in the vineyard the off-season, high-quality "winter grapes" he cultivated using the "Internet," which are about to hit the market.

After the Start of Winter, although grapes are long past their harvest season, at the Taoyuan Grape Planting Professional Cooperative in Yanghe Town, Huaying City, Sichuan Province, post-90s college-graduate farmer Liu Wei has used the "Internet" to cultivate off-season, high-quality "winter grapes" that are now laden with fruit and entering the harvest period, filling the gap of no fresh grapes on the winter market.

Liu Wei, now 25 years old, after graduating from university in 2013, established the Taoyuan Grape Planting Professional Cooperative in Yanghe Town, Huaying City, applying "Internet agriculture" thinking to build a standardized, intelligent grape-growing system. Through a mobile phone client, he monitors the growing conditions and on-site images of each greenhouse and remotely controls fertilization, watering, pesticide application, and more, achieving precision planting and intelligent management, effectively improving the agricultural production environment and raising agricultural production efficiency. He also grows high-quality off-season grapes such as Autumn Black, Black Olympia, Lady's Finger, and Moldova according to market demand, with a market selling price reaching more than 160 yuan per kilogram.