"After installing this navigation system, our cooperative's tractors, rice transplanters, and harvesters can be unmanned!" Recently, in the Shanghai Daoshui Rice Planting Professional Cooperative located in Fengjing Town, technicians from Shanghai Lianshi Navigation Technology Co., Ltd. are installing Beidou navigation system for agricultural machinery. Wang Xuefeng, a farmer, said, "Last year, the cooperative applied for the construction of an 'unmanned farm', and today the equipment began to be installed, and the whole process is very smooth." With that, he couldn't wait to start learning how to use this set of autonomous driving.
It is understood that the construction of unmanned farms for grain production is a production mode of smart agriculture and a way to realize smart agriculture. As a system project, its construction content includes: facility farmland suitable for unmanned operation, crop environmental sensing system, unmanned intelligent driving equipment, intelligent decision-making control system, etc.
This year, the total construction area of the unmanned grain production farm in Fengjing Town has reached 2,000 mu, of which 1,000 mu is in Wang Xuefeng's cooperative. As the first batch of areas in the town to be included in the construction, Wang Xuefeng is full of expectations for this transformation. "Like this rice transplanter, it originally needed two people to operate, but now after installing this system, one person can stand alone, don't underestimate this one labor, you can save 600 yuan a day."
As a "new farmer" born in the 70s, Wang Xuefeng has been engaged in grain planting for more than ten years. In the past two years, as more and more rice fields have been contracted, the problems of high labor costs and difficult labor have become more and more "headaches" for him. "Science and technology are the primary productive forces, and our agricultural production must also keep up with the pace of the times, not only by manpower, but also by mechanization and intelligence." Wang Xuefeng said that it is precisely because of this that he spent more than 100,000 yuan to purchase an unmanned plant protection machine as early as a few years ago.
Seeking benefits from science and technology and yielding from science and technology is the only way for high-quality agricultural development. The construction of the "unmanned farm" of the Shanghai Dao Harvest Rice Planting Cooperative involves the transformation of 3 tractors, 3 rice transplanters or hole seeding machines, 2 unmanned aerial vehicles and 2 combine harvesters. After the equipment is installed and put into use, it can not only save labor costs, but also not be limited by the physical strength of agricultural machinery drivers, and effectively improve the operation efficiency and standards.
"In order to give full play to the positive role of unmanned farms in improving quality and efficiency, combined with the development status of related technologies, the main construction of facility farmland and intelligent agricultural machinery is currently carried out." Lu Lei, director of the Agricultural and Rural Service Center of Fengjing Town, said that after the installation of the navigation assistance system, each rice transplanter is equipped with a controller, which only needs to be operated by pressing the button on the controller to control the alignment, straight line, turning, etc. of the rice transplanting machine, so as to ensure the operation efficiency of the rice transplanting and make the rice transplanting operation full of "science and technology".
Talking about the changes in agricultural production methods over the years, Wang Xuefeng felt deeply, "A few people have realized the planting and management of more than 1,000 acres of land, which is inseparable from the country's attention to agricultural work, and the vigorous promotion of agricultural mechanization and intelligence." "It is gratifying that the construction of 154 square meters of agricultural facilities declared by Wang Xuefeng last year has also been approved, and the construction date is close at hand." Catching up with the country's good policies, now farmers are also smart in growing grain, and everyone has a rush in their hearts! Wang Xuefeng said.
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