Development Trend of Digital Agriculture in Developed Countries and Its Enlightenment to China

Digital agriculture is the core of agricultural modernization and an important part of digital village construction and rural revitalization. In 2020, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs issued the “Digital Agriculture and Rural Development Plan (2019-2025)”, further clarifying that digital agriculture is the development direction of future agriculture.

At present, although the development of China’s digital agriculture has achieved remarkable results, it is also facing many problems. Specifically, the investment in agricultural equipment is heavy on mechanization and light on digitalization of equipment; agricultural data collection is insufficient, and the level of agricultural intelligence needs to be improved; the digital economy is weak and the productization ability is weak; the investment in the digitalization of agricultural product circulation is large, and the investment in digitalization of agricultural production is small. These phenomena restrict the further development of digital agriculture.

This article aims to analyze the new development trend of digital agriculture in developed countries, and on this basis, put forward suggestions for the development of digital agriculture in China, in order to learn from foreign development experience to accelerate the digital transformation of China’s agriculture.

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Development Trend of Digital Agriculture in Developed Countries

(1) Digitalization of equipment

Relying on GPS technology, the United States uses GPS for agricultural machinery management, and combines the characteristics of large-scale and high-level mechanization of American farms, installs GPS and geographic terrain maps on agricultural machinery, and integrates machinery routes, operating hours, and farming procedures in agricultural production. , Crop varieties, identification and loading of production materials, mechanical oil supply and other information digitization, so that intelligent agricultural machinery can be automatically identified.

By connecting the computer with the established agricultural machinery, agricultural producers conduct comprehensive monitoring and management of crops before, during and after production to ensure that the medicines and fertilizers of different plots and different crops in their respective production cycles are automatically guaranteed and will not If there is any omission; at the same time, according to the GPS signal and digital electronic fence to lock the use range of agricultural machinery, avoid random non-productive use, and has the function of anti-theft of agricultural machinery.

(2) Intelligent production

At present, developed countries have begun to introduce modern agricultural technologies such as remote sensing technology, intelligent mechanical systems, computer networks, and machine vision technologies in farm production management, so that traditional agriculture has evolved to the stage of agricultural intelligence. Digitize crop growth stages, nutritional status, health levels, and physical states such as light, temperature and humidity, air, soil moisture content, and nutrients through plot photoelectric sensors, and transmit them to the intelligent growth control system, allowing artificial intelligence to automatically analyze, process and formulate Production management measures to realize intelligent control of crop growth.