Latest News on Smart Agriculture Trends: What the Application Prospects Tell Us About Who Will Farm the Land
Agricultural development is progressing faster and faster, and both the modernization and technological advancement of agriculture have made great strides. The question of “who will farm the land” has recently become a hot topic in agricultural development.
Now, as the pace of rural revitalization accelerates, technologies such as the internet and cloud computing are continuously being applied in the agricultural sector. Many intelligent technological machines have made their way into the fields, such as the most advanced unmanned machinery operations available today. This helps advance standardized and intensive agricultural production, and also provides a solution to “who will farm the land,” while becoming an effective long-term countermeasure to the aging of the agricultural labor force. China's agriculture is moving closer to the era of smart farming.
“Smart agriculture” can effectively improve the agricultural ecological environment. At present, our livestock farming and crop cultivation still have a relatively large impact on the ecological environment. The development of smart agriculture treats production units and the surrounding ecological environment as a whole, and through measures such as material exchange and precise calculations, ensures that the ecological environment of agricultural production remains within a bearable range, thereby effectively improving the agricultural ecological environment.
“Smart agriculture” can significantly improve the efficiency of agricultural production and operation. Our agricultural production will no longer rely mainly on manual labor as the primary productive force; instead, it will use technological methods to carry out real-time monitoring of agriculture, and use technologies such as cloud computing and data mining for multi-level analysis to complete agricultural production and management. This kind of intelligent machinery replacing human agricultural labor solves the problem of the increasingly scarce agricultural labor force, and also improves agricultural production's ability to respond to natural environmental risks.
“Smart agriculture” can give rise to an agricultural organizational system with large-scale agriculture as the main body. We are improving the agricultural science and technology network service system so that people engaged in agriculture can learn the most advanced agricultural knowledge without leaving home, and can also obtain various kinds of science and technology and agricultural product supply and demand information; this guides agricultural production and operation, changes the model of relying purely on experience for agricultural production and operation, and changes the perception of our traditional agriculture as backward. In addition, at the stage of smart agriculture, smallholder production will be phased out, and an agricultural organizational system with large-scale agriculture as the main body will be brought into being.
The various new business forms of smart agriculture are not only progress at the technological level, but also a transformation of the agricultural production mode. In the not-too-distant future, on the broad land, what will be seen will no longer be the figures of farmers bending over to plant, but tens of thousands of agricultural machines guided by the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System. Only then will farmers truly be able to bid farewell to “facing the yellow earth with their backs to the sky.”
As for the development of smart agriculture, if we want to realize it as soon as possible, we must actively embrace this development trend and do a good job in every task that benefits this development trend, so as to welcome the spring of smart agriculture. So what is your view?
