Lingwu Unmanned Farm “Hui” Farming

Recently, in a field near the road in Dayangqi Village, Majiatan Town, Lingwu City, with the staff of Xinwang Agricultural Socialization Comprehensive Service Station issuing instructions through tablets in the monitoring room, an unmanned intelligent rotary tiller began to rotate the land in an orderly manner according to the planned route. As a result, the first unmanned farm in Ningxia lifted a mysterious veil.

Unmanned farms refer to the precise management of planting objects, intelligent decision-making of production processes, and unmanned operations achieved through the online and data-driven management of various factors such as agricultural production resources, environment, and equipment without manual entry into the farm.

In the unmanned farm mode, agricultural machinery is like a robot, which strictly follows instructions to operate. The plowing and rotation depth, sowing uniformity, speed, and other quality operations are consistent, which lays a good foundation for achieving factory standardization in agriculture. “Wang Haigang, the head of Xinwang Agricultural Service Station, introduced that at the beginning of this year, the service station put the construction of an unmanned farm on the agenda.

Our construction goal is to achieve digital land management; achieve full coverage of unmanned cultivation, management, and production processes, including unmanned deep plowing, unmanned rotary tillage, unmanned dry live broadcasting, unmanned water hole sowing, unmanned aerial vehicle plant protection, unmanned harvesting, etc.; at the same time, there is also full monitoring of the ‘four conditions’ of farmland and crop production process; intelligent decision-making and precise operation are all unmanned; and ultrasonic open channel flow monitoring Wang Haigang said.

As a member unit of Lingwu Supply and Marketing Cooperative, in recent years, Xinwang Agricultural Service Station has used an innovative service model of “fully managed land planting+intelligent agricultural command and dispatch center” to enhance its ability to serve agriculture. It can achieve remote monitoring, standardization, and high-quality large-scale mechanized operations, while also achieving intensive cultivation of crops and achieving cost reduction and efficiency increase throughout the entire planting process. At present, the service station manages over 30000 acres of land in the county, benefiting about 10000 farmers.