Vigorously develop demand-oriented intelligent agriculture

On December 13, the second China Agriculture and Valley Forum was held in Qujialing Management District, Jingmen City, Hubei Province, where more than a dozen experts and scholars from China Agricultural University, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Huazhong Agricultural University, Hubei Academy of Social Sciences and other universities and scientific research institutes conducted in-depth discussions and exchanges on the theme of how to promote agricultural informatization and develop intelligent agriculture in China. Experts and scholars believe that there are broad prospects for the development of smart agriculture, and it is necessary to strengthen the research on the technology of the Internet of things in smart agriculture, increase support for intelligent agriculture, and vigorously develop demand-oriented intelligent agriculture.

He Liyuan, a professor at the School of Resources and Environment of Huazhong Agricultural University, made an in-depth analysis of the main factors restricting the development of intelligent agriculture in China. He said that in recent years, with the rapid development of hardware, software and communication technology as the forerunner, and with the promotion of national economic restructuring policies, intelligent agriculture supported by the Internet of things has developed rapidly. Intelligent agriculture can accelerate the process of agricultural modernization, but there are some problems in concrete implementation: first, there are great differences in profit level and rate of return on investment among industries; second, there is a lack of guarantee for basic information and its supporting system; third, the development level of productive forces and advanced technology must adapt to each other in order to develop harmoniously, not that the more advanced the technology, the higher the benefit. He believes that in order for intelligent agriculture to develop continuously and healthily and become the soul of agricultural production, the key is to have appropriate economic returns, so that it can be promoted step by step, and finally form a situation supporting the development of agricultural industrialization. only in this way can intelligent agriculture be actively accepted by agriculture and popularized and applied on a large scale. He also pointed out that in the absence of key sensor types, strengthening the collection of basic information from within agriculture is a prerequisite for the implementation of smart agriculture, otherwise after the implementation of the project, the beneficiaries will only be the contractor of the project and the manufacturer of the equipment.

Ma Caixue, director of the Department of Information Management at Huazhong Agricultural University, proposed to mobilize various forces to participate in the construction of intelligent agriculture. He believes that the construction of the Internet of things in agriculture and animal husbandry and the development of the Internet of things industry provide unprecedented opportunities for realizing the informationization and industrialization of agriculture and animal husbandry. However, as a high and new technology in agriculture, the technology of the Internet of things in agriculture has the characteristics of weak foundation, large one-time investment, wide range of benefits, and strong public welfare, so there is an urgent need for the government to increase investment, and the government should play a leading role in the construction of the Internet of things technology in "smart agriculture." Social forces such as scientific research institutes, institutions of higher learning, telecommunications operators, and information technology enterprises should be encouraged to participate in the construction of agricultural Internet of things projects, and to create an application and development model of agricultural Internet of things led by the government, linkage between government and enterprises, market operation, and win-win cooperation, so as to realize the all-round development of the Internet of things in agriculture. At present, the construction of expert system in all aspects of the development of intelligent agriculture is a bottleneck, which needs to attract the attention of relevant departments.

Liang Xiaoqing, director of the China Agricultural Valley Development Research Center, introduced at the forum the core area of Hubei's provincial strategic "China Agricultural Valley"-- Qujialing Management District of Jingmen City, Hubei Province. actively explore a "modern agricultural demonstration area, agricultural culture exhibition area, agricultural eco-tourism area, agricultural production and processing agglomeration area" of modern agriculture "four areas" road, speed up the construction of "intelligent agricultural valley". At the same time, combined with years of practice, he made his own thinking on promoting the construction of agricultural informatization. He believes that at present, the driving force for the development of agricultural informatization in many places is basically driven by supply, there is a tendency to worship technology and fetishism, and there is a gap between policy design, scientific research and farmers' demands in some places. He pointed out that in order to develop demand-oriented agricultural informatization, special attention should be paid to meeting the informationization needs of the three new types of production and operation subjects, such as professional households, family farms, and farmers' cooperatives. The ultimate goal of agricultural informatization must play a role in the production process in order to produce more, better, safer, cheaper and better agricultural products. He believes that not enough attention has been paid to the status of production links in agricultural informatization policy. He also called for further strengthening the cultivation of agricultural informatization talents, especially to train more compound application talents who understand both agriculture and informatization, so as to improve the treatment of agricultural informatization practitioners.

Kumamoto Hai, director of the Animal Husbandry Information Center of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, expounded his understanding of intelligent agriculture from the application of Internet of things technology in the field of animal husbandry. He believes that at present, the Internet of things based on animal husbandry lacks key technologies and products, the application scale is small and scattered, and there is no "perception-transmission-control" application closed loop. At the same time, there is a lack of mature technology application model and commercial operation mode. Policy protection is not strong. Kumamoto Hai suggested that the professional needs of animal husbandry be combined with the Internet of things technology and the application of big data to form an Internet of things solution and transform information technology into real productivity.

Professor Wei Yaoguang of China Agricultural University introduced the development of agricultural informatization in European countries at the meeting. He believes that the intensive production, intelligent control, fine management, electronic transaction and systematic logistics development model of agriculture in European countries are the basic direction of China's agricultural development in the future. In Europe, the main body of responsibility for the informatization of production and operation is the farmer, and the main body of responsibility for management and service is the government. Government departments provide platforms and rules, and are responsible for guidance and supervision. These are experiences worth learning from.