Mobile phone herding sheep will increase income without losing it.

Pei Xiaofei (left) is installing a locator for the sheep.

Pei Xiaofei can control the mileage and route of the sheep on the same day with his mobile phone.

After installing the locator, Pei Xiaofei drove the sheep out of the enclosure.

In the evening, when it's time for the sheep to return to the circle, turn on the mobile phone Wechat and enter the electronic fence grazing system. Real-time information about the real-time position of the sheep, the walking distance of the day, the trajectory of the sheep and other real-time information of Pei Xiaofei, a herdsman in Sunite left Banner of Xilingol League, Inner Mongolia, is displayed on the mobile phone.

According to the location information of the sheep on the electronic map, Pei Xiaofei stepped on the motorcycle and went straight to the location of the sheep and found the sheep in about 10 minutes. Every morning he puts the sheep out of the pen and rushes back to the sheep in the evening. Pei Xiaofei has used the sheep satellite positioning and tracking system last year, which has saved a lot of time.

Sunite Zuoqi is a demonstration pilot of comprehensive reform in rural and pastoral areas of Inner Mongolia Autonomous region. Through the implementation of the "Wisdom pasture" project, the production mode of herdsmen grazing has undergone a qualitative change, and sheep mobile satellite positioning is only one of them.

The new grassland automatic farming supervision technology based on the Internet of things includes monitoring terminal platform, meteorological unit, enclosure unit, supplementary feeding shed unit, physical sign monitoring unit, GPS mobile positioning, wireless network system and other functional equipment.

"except for herding sheep back to the circle, all the other work can be done by mobile phone!" Pei Xiaofei turns on the computer, and each sheep has a digital ID card with the same number as the ear tag, with corresponding photos, and the sheep's growth can be traced back to the whole process from picking up the lamb to coming out of the pen. The conditions of sheepfold and pasture around the shed can be monitored in real time by video. The system can also monitor and early warning the temperature, humidity, ammonia and water quality of the pasture. The main platform can be used to control the shed lighting system, drinking water trough switch, shed automatic door, sheep GPS positioning and pasture surrounding environment monitoring.

Long Yunpeng, director of the Office of Comprehensive Reform of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry in Sunite left Banner, said that previously, the positioning system could only provide the trajectory of sheep activities. In 2016, on the basis of the original system, an electronic map was drawn for the pastures of herdsmen, and the boundaries of the grasslands of each household were clearly discernible. Only need to put a locator around the neck of the sheep, the sheep move in the pasture, the position is clear at a glance. "the original intention of building this system is to provide basic data for traceability of mutton, to prove that sheep are grazed and grown under natural conditions, and our ultimate goal is to achieve high quality and high price of mutton through the traceability system, so as to increase the income of herdsmen."

"Last year, the price of mutton per kilogram was 3 yuan higher than the market price. My family produced more than 400 sheep, and the income increased by about 10,000 yuan." Pei Xiaofei gave a thumbs up and went on and on about the benefits of high-tech grazing. "in the past, the annual cost of hiring a long-term shepherd was about 50,000 yuan, but now with this system, it has greatly saved manpower." You don't have to hire people, and all the expenses saved are converted into net income, which was unthinkable in the past. "