China promotes the application of digital technology to boost agricultural production and income

Compared to the traditional harvest of wielding sickles to cut rice and people carrying horses, nowadays, unmanned “iron oxen” roaring past in the rice fields gradually become the protagonist of autumn harvest. During the autumn harvest season, another “abundant” scene is unfolding in the fields of Nanming Town, Jianhe County, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province, located in the mountains of the Miao Mountains.

It is reported that since last year, Guizhou’s first rice “unmanned farm” has been explored and established here. With an unmanned driving system based on BeiDou satellite navigation, people can remotely control the operation route, speed, and other aspects of agricultural harvesters with only mobile phone sized operating equipment.

Watching the unmanned harvester work efficiently, Wu Zhongming, a Miao elderly man beside him, exclaimed with great emotion, “This’ iron ox ‘is so powerful. I never expected that even in such a remote mountainous area, we could use these advanced machines

Previously, harvesting an acre of land solely by human labor required at least four or five people to work hard for most of the day. Nowadays, with an unmanned harvester, it can be harvested in over 10 minutes, greatly improving labor efficiency. “said Su Jiqiang, an employee of the” unmanned farm “in Nanming Town, Jianhe County.

As a major agricultural country, China is continuously promoting agricultural modernization and injecting increasingly strong digital technology into the revitalization of rural industries.

Guizhou, located in the southwestern hinterland of China, was once the province with the highest number of impoverished people in the country. In recent years, Guizhou has been continuously deepening the application of digital technology in promoting the construction of big data comprehensive pilot zones, actively empowering the development of agriculture, education, healthcare, and other fields, and using digital technology to assist in the upgrading and upgrading of agriculture.