Guanzhuang Town, Anqiu City: Developing Smart Agriculture to Assist Rural Revitalization

Recently, at the Changshengyuan Ecological Family Farm in Anqiu City, farm administrator Sun Xiping started a day of “agricultural work” and adjusted indoor light, temperature, water, and fertilizer with a “remote control” button. With just a small mobile phone, it’s easy to manage the watering and fertilization of hundreds of acres of land; sitting in front of a computer can check the growth of crops in real time. “Sun Xiping couldn’t help but be excited, and with the participation of smart agriculture, their workload was greatly reduced.

In recent years, Guanzhuang Town in Anqiu City has taken the lead in agricultural development, firmly grasping the opportunity of technological development, vigorously promoting the development of smart agriculture, actively exploring the development mode of smart agriculture, investing in building a smart agriculture industrial park, and opening up a new path for intelligent and refined agricultural development, providing good experience and practices for creating a model for rural revitalization in Qilu.

Integrate industries and assist in rural revitalization. Guanzhuang Town in Anqiu City is based on the integration of primary, secondary, and tertiary industries. By leveraging the advantages of state-owned enterprises, private enterprises, and research institutes to jointly participate in rural construction, and integrating the three industries, capital, talent, and technology are brought to the countryside to achieve high-level replication of traditional rural production methods, forming a modern agricultural park with multiple formats, participation of multiple entities, linkage of multiple mechanisms, and promotion of multiple factors and modes. Innovate land management models. Implementing the innovative land management model of “integrated party committee+enterprise+village collective+farmer”, with organization as the guarantee and industry as the foundation, “breaking down into pieces”, integrating 6 enterprises such as Sinochem Agriculture, 4 research institutes such as Weifang University, 5 village party organizations such as Changshengyuan Farm, Tiaohe Village, and Pozhuang Village, and establishing the integrated party committee. The secretary of the village party organization and the person in charge of the farm where the land is transferred are members, achieving the goal of enterprise, village collective The integration and sharing of capital, talent, and technology between farmers and research institutes.

Build smart parks and develop modern agriculture. The farm explores the “Internet of Things+Planting” model and innovatively creates a smart agricultural industrial park, achieving automation, standardization, and large-scale planting. Automation control saves labor investment. We independently developed and designed intelligent control water and fertilizer integration equipment to realize automatic irrigation and fertilization. Through the “Internet plus+intelligent water and fertilizer integration” intelligent Internet of Things control center, we can remotely control the ecological environment in the greenhouse. In the insulation system, the optimal conditions for crop growth are obtained by collecting, analyzing, and controlling soil moisture, composition, pH value, precipitation, temperature, air humidity and pressure, and light intensity. In the irrigation system, the most suitable irrigation timing is determined by sensing the soil moisture content and plant moisture evaporation rate, and communicating with the receiver under set conditions to control the valve opening and closing of the irrigation system, achieving the goal of automatic water-saving irrigation. The intelligent control of integrated water and fertilizer equipment can achieve automatic water and fertilizer operation through measuring devices and visual operation interfaces.

Standardized control ensures the quality of agricultural products. The smart agricultural industrial park follows a scientific and standardized modern agricultural planting management model, and through the use of new technologies and modern equipment for precise fertilization, not only improves the quality of agricultural products, effectively controls pesticide residues, ensures safety on the tongue, but also ensures the reasonable and healthy soil nutrient composition, avoiding problems such as land compaction and soil fertility decline caused by traditional agricultural extensive and excessive fertilization. Introducing microbial fermentation equipment can implement ecological interventions based on the soil environment of different growth stages of crops, achieve a balance in the quantity of microbial communities, and ensure the health of the park’s land. Strictly following EU standards, the grapes, tomatoes and other fruits and vegetables produced meet the requirements for green agricultural products, and have successfully passed EU GAP certification, enhancing brand value.