What a wise lettuce! Automatic fertilization and planting, estimated yield time harvest, no longer afraid of lack of work

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Taiwan head lettuce (also known as American lettuce) is a bulk export vegetable. Last year, it exported 8717 metric tons, with Japan and South Korea as the main exporting countries. However, the quality of head lettuce is unstable due to a large amount of manual labor, individual field fertilization and management differences. The Tainan District Agricultural Improvement Farm of the Council of Agriculture cooperated with the Mailiao Fruit and Vegetable Production Cooperative to develop the "Intelligent Recommendation Fertilization and Yield Prediction System" and introduce labor-saving machinery to improve the production model of head lettuce.

Hsieh Ming-hsien, director of the Tainan District Agricultural Improvement Farm's Yizhu Station, explained how the entire R & D system worked. First, the system estimated a reasonable amount of fertilizer, then fertilizer was applied by a fertilizer applicator, and then planting was carried out by a transplanting machine. After that, the system will estimate the recovery time and production, and then the recovery machine will recover, which is a continuous operation mode. Integrate into the core of intelligent agriculture, including data collection, import of prediction data, big data analysis, intelligent decision-making, and reduce the error of human judgment.

Transplantation Machine Operation (courtesy of Tainan Agricultural Improvement Station)

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