Technology powers Huangpu's spring plowing

The annual spring plowing in Jingxia village, Guangzhou's Huangpu district will look rather different this year after Luo Xiwen, an academician at the Chinese Academy of Engineering, introduced the concept of "unmanned farms" in February.

An event was held by Huangpu and the bureau of agriculture and rural affairs of Guangzhou municipality in Jingxia on March 9 to prepare for the spring plowing and provide agricultural science and technology consultation services.

Diverse high-tech equipment including unmanned tractors, unmanned variable fertilizer applicators, and plant protecting unmanned aerial vehicles will be deployed for sowing, fertilization, and spraying.

Unmanned farming machinery is deployed for spring plowing in Jingxi village.

They will reduce costs, increase the utilization rate of lands, fertilizers and pesticides, and work all day long to boost the industrialization of agriculture, said Luo.

According to Tao Feng, deputy director of Huangpu agriculture and rural affairs, the district has relatively little farming land, and thus must pay more attention to improving crop quality and yields using scientific and technological means.

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