A drone exactly atomizes water, fertilizer, and pesticide options right into a tremendous mist for environment friendly software on a area in central China’s Hubei Province. (People’s Daily Online/Zhang Jun)
Technology is bringing new momentum to the height spring farming season in central China’s Hubei Province, the place farm administration is now in full swing.
Photo exhibits virus-free candy potato seedlings in a plant tissue tradition lab at a “science and technology backyard” in Gong’an county, Huanggang metropolis, central China’s Hubei Province. (People’s Daily Online/Zhang Jun)
In a plant tissue tradition lab at a “science and technology backyard” in Hong’an county, Huanggang metropolis, central China’s Hubei Province, virus-free candy potato seedlings are grown in neatly organized pots underneath fixed temperature situations. Humidity, temperature, and vitamins are all exactly regulated by an automatic management system.
The Science and Technology Backyard program goals to check and resolve sensible issues in the event of agriculture and rural areas and prepare high-level agricultural expertise.
Yao Feng checks on the expansion of virus-free candy potato seedlings in a greenhouse in Gong’an county, Huanggang metropolis, central China’s Hubei Province. (People’s Daily Online/Guo Tingting)
Virus-free seedling know-how is like giving candy potato seedlings a full well being check-up and remedy, stated Yao Feng, head of a planting and breeding cooperative.
The breakthrough has helped overcome long-standing challenges in candy potato farming, lifting yields from lower than 1,000 kilograms per mu (about 0.067 hectares) to over 2,500 kilograms.
Today, the “science and technology backyard” produces as much as 100 million high-quality virus-free seedlings a 12 months, and promotes the cultivation of the seedlings on a complete of 25,000 mu of farmland, serving to farming households enhance revenue by greater than 1,000 yuan (about $146.32) per mu on common.
Photo exhibits candy potato seedlings in a greenhouse underneath fixed temperature situations in Gong’an county, Huanggang metropolis, central China’s Hubei Province. (People’s Daily Online/Guo Tingting)
In Xishui county of Huanggang, the roar of equipment marks the beginning of planting season for the county’s 360,000 mu of early-season and ratoon rice.
In greater than 3,600 mu of rice fields operated by Jiafeng Agricultural Co., Ltd., spring ploughing is in full swing. In the sky, an agricultural drone evenly sprays soil conditioners to enhance the land. On the bottom, a rotary tiller shuttles backwards and forwards.
“Each drone can cover over 300 mu a day, which makes a huge difference in efficiency,” stated drone operator Yang Li.
A drone sprays soil conditioners to enhance the land in Xishui county, Huanggang metropolis, central China’s Hubei Province. (People’s Daily Online/Guo Tingting)
Hundreds of kilometers away in Jiuzhen city, Tianmen metropolis, unmanned spring farming is in full swing in rice fields managed by a rice planting cooperative. A employee faucets a pill and an electrical sensible tractor instantly begins up, following a preset route to hold out deep ploughing. A drone takes off to exactly atomize and evenly spray water, fertilizer, and pesticide options throughout the fields. An unmanned high-speed rice transplanter strikes easily via the fields, planting seedlings with precision and consistency.
Unmanned high-speed rice transplanters plant seedlings with precision and consistency in a area in Jiuzhen city, Tianmen metropolis, central China’s Hubei Province. (Photo/You Weiping)
“An unmanned high-speed transplanter can work 8 to 12 mu per hour, significantly boosting efficiency,” stated cooperative head You Weiping, noting that each one six transplanters bought final 12 months have been geared up with the Beidou navigation satellite tv for pc system.
Agricultural machines plough and put together the fields forward of machine-based seeding in a area in Jiuzhen city, Tianmen metropolis, central China’s Hubei Province. (Photo/Wang Shuai)
(Web editor: Hongyu, Liang Jun)