The Internet is expected to promote agricultural "corner overtaking" in China.

The proposal of the 13th five-year Plan announced a few days ago expounds the content of agricultural modernization at considerable length and proposes to promote agricultural informatization during the 13th five-year Plan period. The reporter learned that the application of the Internet has penetrated into agricultural production, circulation, service, and other links, and the raging "Internet + Agriculture" is expected to rewrite the new pattern of China's modern agriculture in the future.

From production to Circulation: the whole Agricultural Industry chain covered by the Internet

At 852 Farm in Heilongjiang Reclamation area, a Klaas 770 combine harvester was shuttling through the corn field under the guidance of satellite navigation, spitting out crushed corn stalks, and corn kernels were stored in the cabin-- this is the bumper harvest scene that reporters saw on the black land not long ago.

With the most advanced harvesting machinery technology in the world, the water yield harvest area of crops can be updated in real time on the display screen, and the real-time work track on the computer screen of the dispatching center with an operating area of more than 40 mu per hour is clear at a glance-- from "big bend, small sickle" to "big agricultural machinery, Internet of things". In many places, it takes large agricultural machinery, satellite remote sensing and Internet of things technology as the core. There are more and more information and digital agricultural production forms for timely monitoring and grasping the growth of crops in different periods. The "Internet" is gradually replacing the traditional farming mode of "facing the loess and facing the sky" by the modern production of "only agricultural machinery but no people".

The above is just a microcosm of the penetration of the Internet into agricultural production. The reporter recently interviewed and learned that Internet technology has begun to infiltrate comprehensively in the fields of agricultural services, circulation of agricultural products, sales, and food quality supervision.

Yuhe Xiangling Walnut Professional Cooperative in Licheng District, Jinan City, Shandong Province recently opened an online store on Taobao, which can sell 4,000 to 5,000 kilograms of walnuts every day. "on the Internet, producers and consumers directly meet and connect to the line, completely subverting the traditional production and marketing process. Online sales not only solved the problem of difficulty in selling agricultural products, but also led more than 400 rural households to increase their income by more than 2000 yuan per mu. " Guo Chaoyuan, secretary of the party branch of Yehe Village, said.

"I'm not afraid of the high price, but I'm afraid of the poor things." Consumers' concerns about the quality of agricultural products have been alleviated by the establishment of an Internet-based product traceability system. The reporter recently investigated and learned in Guizhou, Guangxi, Yunnan, and Shandong that with the popularity of mobile Internet, Internet of things, intelligent terminals, and handheld traceability devices, as well as the application of technologies such as big data and cloud computing in the field of agriculture, to a certain extent, it has promoted the production and management level of agricultural products, and thus improved the quality and safety level of agricultural products.

From Catalysis to subversion: the Internet may help shorten the process of Agricultural Modernization in China

Analysts believe that the transformation of traditional agriculture by the Internet has a catalytic or even subversive effect, and the resulting changes in China's agriculture will be gradually reflected in the 13th five-year Plan and even for a period of time to come.

Li Daoliang, a professor at the School of Information and Electrical Engineering of China Agricultural University, believes that the application of the Internet of things technology is conducive to the efficient allocation of production factors, play a cost-saving and synergistic effect, and may become the future development direction of China's agriculture. "Internet +" will play a catalytic role in agricultural development and insert wings for agricultural modernization to take off. " Li Daoliang said.

With the infiltration of the Internet into agricultural production, traditional agriculture, which has lasted for thousands of years, is turning to precision agriculture and intelligent agriculture. "the staff can command the deep ploughing speed and depth of agricultural machinery in real time in the monitoring room, and alarm can be realized at any time for substandard operations, and the seedlings can be evenly, evenly, and healthily by remote control, so that the land utilization rate, land output rate, and labor productivity can be greatly improved. this is a complete change in the mode of agricultural production." Chi Lijun, general manager of Qixing Farm in Heilongjiang, said.

The role of this change is also reflected in the field of agricultural product circulation. "the emergence of rural e-commerce helps to establish a consumption-oriented production and marketing system, changing from traditional production to production, and realizing production by sales. This is a complete subversion of the relationship between agricultural production and marketing for thousands of years." Wang Xiaobing, deputy director of the Market and Information Department of the Ministry of Agriculture, believes that the reengineering of this process is conducive to docking production and marketing, balancing supply and demand, and changing the historical curse of the ups and downs of agricultural prices.

"Internet technology is the glue of agricultural modernization, which will greatly accelerate the realization of China's agricultural modernization." Li Daoliang said that developed agricultural countries often first realize agricultural mechanization and modernization, and finally complete agricultural informatization, while China's agricultural mechanization, modernization and informatization are expected to be "superimposed and promoted at the same time." "the 13th five-year proposal proposes to promote agricultural informationization. Driven by the Internet, big data, and cloud computing, China is likely to realize the agricultural modernization completed in a hundred years by developed countries in the next 20 years. This is a change in the law of world agricultural development." Li Daoliang said.

From Capital to Technology: two bottlenecks of Internet Agriculture to be solved

However, during the interview, the reporter also learned that many experts and rural grass-roots cadres said that "Internet +" is more of a "bonsai" concept in the field of agricultural production, and that if it is to be popularized and applied on a large scale to turn Internet + 's agriculture into a landscape, we still need to overcome two major obstacles: capital and technology.

After several years of active exploration, the construction of the Internet of things in Qixing Farm in Heilongjiang has achieved remarkable results, but there is still a gap with the construction of modern agriculture. General Manager Chi Lijun told reporters that the high costs of large capital investment, lack of talents, infrastructure, system operation, and information services are restricting the further development of Internet of things agriculture. Zhang Jinghui, a big grain grower, said that the Internet of things in agriculture is "durable and not durable," and the high cost shuts out ordinary growers.

The lag of technology also restricts the development of Internet agriculture. The sensor is the key part of the Internet of things technology, but the development scale of the sensor technology in our country is small, the cost is high, and there is no industrialization, which restricts the popularization and application of the Internet of things technology. In addition, the domestic production technology of large agricultural machinery equipment is also far below the international level, and the overall level of intelligent manufacturing lags behind, which restricts the development prospect of agricultural informatization. " Li Daoliang said

The reporter learned that although "Internet + Agriculture" has an obvious effect in reforming the circulation of traditional agricultural products, it is not "dominating the world." Many experts believe that problems such as blind development in various places, backward Internet infrastructure in rural areas, backward rural logistics system, especially cold chain logistics system, and farmers' lack of relevant skills training have restricted the further development of "Internet + Agriculture."

Experts point out that the penetration of the Internet into agriculture is still a shallow application and lacks innovation. The state should increase the support of finance, taxation, finance, technology and so on, so that the Internet can really act as the catalyst and booster of modern agriculture.