Hunan Daily New Hunan Client Reporter Zhang Fufang Li Zhi
Vegetables and fruits, regardless of the season, can be grown all year round;
Without the need for soil, the nutrient solution can grow fresh green vegetables and fruits;
With a little mouse in the office, intelligent irrigation, fertilization, temperature control, etc. can be used in the greenhouse, and there is a "smart brain" for farming......
These scenarios, with the operation of the "Plant Factory" project in Nantuo Street, Tianxin District, Changsha City, will be realized one by one.
To develop smart agriculture, Nantuo Street has unique advantages
Nantuo Street, located in the south of Changsha City, is a typical urban-rural junction street. It is bounded by National Highway 107, with urban plates to the east and rural areas to the west.
It is half a bustling city, half a poetic pastoral, one end is connected to the development of the city, and the other is concerned with rural revitalization.
How to make project construction and rural revitalization resonate at the same frequency?
In recent years, the street has insisted on promoting revitalization through hard work, based on amplifying the advantages of "Linjiang, Wangzhou, and suburbs", making full use of rural revitalization bridging funds and land resources in Liang'an, cultivating characteristic and advantageous industries, strengthening the collective economy, and exploring new business formats of "wisdom + agriculture + cultural tourism".
Since Hunan Youbang Agriculture settled in Yanjiang Village, Nantuo Street in 2015, it has focused on Internet + flower agriculture, focusing on flower and plant seedlings, high-quality potted flowers, and green carving modeling, of which green carving is the leader in the industry, accounting for 70% of the market in our province.
In 2023, relying on the advantages of the suburbs, the Party Committee of Yanjiang Village is ready to develop the leisure and sightseeing tourism industry, which coincides with Hunan Youbang Agriculture, and the two companies will cooperate to create a new route of "agricultural tourism + research" integrating flower planting, ornamentation, education and science popularization. The labor and practical education base of Yanjiang Village has taken advantage of the trend of tourism and agricultural tourism as a medium to build a flower research base and leverage the "research and tourism" market, which has received more than 5,000 people since its official listing at the beginning of this year.
With the in-depth implementation of the rural revitalization strategy, with the help of science and technology, many places have realized the deep integration of traditional agriculture and modern technology, and Nantuo Street is also actively laying out smart agriculture projects.
In September this year, after many "brainstorming" in the early stage, going out to study and Xi, and repeatedly researching and discussing, under the guidance of the Party Working Committee of Nantuo Street, the Yanjiang Village Committee and Hunan Youbang in-depth cooperation - signed a contract to jointly invest 30 million yuan to build a smart agricultural greenhouse, so that all kinds of fruits and vegetables can be produced like a factory.
"In 2023, the No. 1 document of the Central Committee proposes to accelerate the application of big data in agriculture and rural areas and promote the development of smart agriculture. The development of smart agriculture projects is not only supported by the central, provincial and municipal policies, but also the geographical advantages of the suburbs of Changsha, the mature leisure and tourism industry, and the blessing of friendly agriculture. Yu Jun, Secretary of the Party Working Committee of Nantuo Street, said.
What is a "Plant Factory"
In mid-December, the reporter came to Yanjiang Village, Nantuo Street, Hunan Youbang Smart Agriculture and Forestry Technology Co., Ltd., a glass building was particularly eye-catching in the cold weather.
Walking into the indoor plant factory, I saw rows of fruits, vegetables and green plants competing for beauty, rows of tissue culture tanks, all kinds of seeds are being bred, and some of them have one or two leaves, a vibrant picture.
According to reports, smart agriculture with plant factories as an important representative is a modern agricultural development mode that combines agricultural production with advanced Internet of Things technology. It uses emerging technologies such as the Internet of Things, big data, and artificial intelligence to realize the intelligence, precision, and efficiency of agricultural production. This agricultural model not only improves the efficiency and quality of agricultural production, but also strongly promotes the sustainable development of agriculture.
"Our project has a total planning area of 20,000 square meters, and the first phase of 4,000 square meters has just been completed and put into use. The person in charge of Hunan Youbang Smart Agriculture and Forestry Co., Ltd. introduced.
The plant factory project in Yanjiang Village adopts the mechanism of enterprise + farmer, and the enterprise provides employment channels for farmers, links farmers with farmers, and supports farmers through employment. The project has a soilless cultivation production area, an agricultural product processing area, a leisure and sightseeing area, a picking and consumption area, a warehousing and logistics distribution area, etc., and at the same time builds five smart agricultural systems: a greenhouse intelligent irrigation system, an integrated water and fertilizer management system, a digital measurement and control system for insect and seedling disasters, a park video surveillance management system, and a large-screen display system for the command center.
The project has a rare high-standard tissue culture laboratory in Hunan Province. A tissue culture laboratory is a specialized place for conducting plant tissue culture experiments and research. It is generally located in a quiet, tidy place away from pollution sources. The area and layout of the laboratory should be determined according to the needs of experiments and research, usually including inoculation rooms, culture rooms, buffer rooms, sterilization rooms, etc.
After being cultivated from the tissue culture laboratory, the plant seedlings can be carefully cared for from the beginning of germination to growth and maturity: the germination area is irradiated by full-spectrum tissue culture lamps for rapid growth, and then transplanted to the tidal seedbed at the seedling stage to receive irrigation with nutrient solution, and the greenhouse facilities are intelligently adjusted according to the state of the plants to ensure that the plants enjoy the nourishment of the sun and nutrient solution...... With the blessing of smart agriculture, plant growth and production have a standardized and controllable growth process and modern management system, so it is also known as a plant factory.
"With the help of scientific and technological innovation, the quality of fruits and vegetables in the plant factory can be controlled and traceable. According to the person in charge of the project, from the beginning of next year, it will begin to provide high-quality fresh fruits and vegetables for the people's table in batches, and provide Changsha citizens with more high-quality and rich varieties to choose from.
Explore new paths for rural revitalization
What are the advantages of plant factories and how to empower rural revitalization?
From the perspective of ecological and environmental protection, smart agriculture can obtain information such as soil moisture and meteorological data of farmland in real time through the use of technologies such as sensors and satellite images, so as to achieve precise fertilization, irrigation and plant protection. This can not only reduce the waste of chemical fertilizers, pesticides and water resources, but also reduce the pollution of agriculture to the environment and protect the ecological environment.
From the perspective of improving efficiency and saving manpower, smart agriculture uses intelligent agricultural equipment, such as drones, automated irrigation systems, and agricultural robots, to improve agricultural production efficiency and reduce labor costs. At the same time, these devices can also realize real-time monitoring and management of farmland, and timely find and solve problems in agricultural production.
This model of factory production of plants is also beneficial to increase the added value of products - through the Internet of Things technology, the production, processing, transportation and sales of agricultural products can be traced throughout the process to ensure the quality and safety of agricultural products. This will help to improve the added value and market competitiveness of agricultural products, and promote the sustainable development of agriculture.
"The annual income of this smart agriculture project is expected to reach 100-3 million yuan, and dividends will be distributed to the village collective according to the contract. At the same time, 20 jobs will be directly provided to the surrounding residents. In the long run, it can drive the surrounding farmers to develop high-quality fruit and vegetable production, and radiate the surrounding villages and streets from point to area. It has a positive impact on the development of rural tourism, urban agriculture, leisure agriculture, courtyard economy and other industries. Yu Jun said with confidence.
In terms of grasping the beautiful countryside and producing a beautiful economy, Nantuo Street has spared no effort in recent years.
Since 2021, Nantuo Street has made efforts from the "small incision" of beautiful housing construction to create 17 beautiful and livable villages at the municipal level. In 2023, 3 municipal-level beautiful and livable villages and 3 district-level beautiful and livable villages will be declared. At present, the creation of 6 beautiful and livable villages has entered the final stage of the project, and the surrounding environment of the housing farm has taken on a new look.
Not only that, making full use of the advantages of Changsha's close to the city, Nantuo Street also focuses on the development of large-scale planting, with more than 3,100 acres of land transferred, forming a characteristic planting industry chain such as vegetables, lotus seeds, flower seedlings, strawberries, watermelons, and figs. In addition, it has developed industries such as agricultural experience, scenic spots, ecological vacations, and cultural and creative tourism according to local conditions.
Nowadays, the ecological leisure places represented by the pastoral residence and the kiln pond pavilion are blooming in many places, the flower seedlings represented by the AIA garden continue to build the brand, and the high-end pastoral homestay represented by the green cottage has taken root...... With the flowering and taking root of smart agriculture projects such as plant factories, the future here is even more worth looking forward to!