Agricultural big data will contribute to the construction of intelligent agriculture

In the information age, aquaculture and farming is no longer an extensive agriculture that depends on heaven for a living, how to use big data to build contemporary intelligent agriculture? On November 17th, the 2016 Henan Modern Agriculture Development High-level Forum with the theme of "Henan Agricultural Development trend under the big data era" was held in Zhengzhou, the provincial capital, where more than 100 agricultural experts, agricultural entrepreneurs, and family farmers gathered to jointly look forward to the future road of modern agricultural development under the background of big data, and explore the development strategy of intelligent agriculture.

"Food is the most important thing for the people. As a traditional agricultural country, China has a splendid farming civilization. In the past, due to the lack of sufficient manpower, capital and awareness to fully collect and make use of the data obtained from daily farming, there was a complete reliance on experience in seed selection, planting and other key links of production, and lack of scientific guidance. " Gu Jianquan, director of the Development Research Center of the Henan Provincial people's Government, said that in the information age, speeding up the construction of the big data project in agriculture will help the development of intelligent agriculture.

The reporter learned that at present, Henan Province is actively promoting the construction of the National big data (Henan) Comprehensive Experimental Zone, which is planned to be built by 2018, the National Transportation and Logistics big data Innovation and Application demonstration Zone, the National Agricultural Grain big data Innovation and Application pilot Zone, the National Central data Convergence and Interactive Base, and the national important big data Innovation and Entrepreneurship Base.

"speeding up the construction of Agricultural big data is a new trend in the development of modern agriculture and a new driving force for promoting agricultural modernization." Gu Jianquan expressed the hope that leaders of relevant departments, experts, scholars, and entrepreneurs will continue to pay attention to the construction and development of big data in agriculture, strengthen the application of data, and develop intelligent agriculture.

How to do well the construction of big data in agriculture? In this regard, Zheng Guoqing, director of the Agricultural economy and Information Research Center of Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, said that while establishing an Internet of things remote monitoring system for major food crops (wheat and corn), it is necessary to do a good job in data acquisition, data resource management, data storage, data mining, data calculation, data visualization and other technical aspects of follow-up.

"data is a new necessary element in modern agricultural production. With the support of technology, agricultural data can be used on a large scale, diversified and efficiently in order to become a real agricultural big data." Zheng Guoqing said that Agricultural big data will help the development of intelligent agriculture. "it will be easy for two or three people to manage a large farm with thousands of mu of land."

At the forum, a number of agricultural experts shared their views and suggestions on the current construction of agricultural big data in Henan Province, and enterprise representatives also shared the successful experience and future vision of modern agricultural development to the participants at the forum.

In addition, the forum also awarded awards such as "Ten innovative figures in Modern Agriculture in Henan in 2016" and "Ten Outstanding Brands of Agricultural products in Henan in 2016", and introduced the latest scientific research achievements of some excellent agricultural products and agricultural inputs. It shows the development achievements of modern agriculture in Henan.

It is reported that the forum is sponsored by the Development Research Center of the Henan Provincial people's Government, the Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and co-sponsored by the Henan Modern Agricultural Research Association and the Rural Agricultural Peasant Magazine.