Is high-tech helping Xinjiang's agriculture gradually enter the intelligent track?

On August 8, 2018, the latest products of leading aviation plant protection companies such as the U.S. Rottweil, China's Sanhe Aviation, Kaiyi Robotics, Hangzhou Qifei and others gathered in Xinjiang to compete for the potential market in Xinjiang, and at the same time help Xinjiang's agricultural development to gradually enter the intelligent track.

The same day, the 18th China Xinjiang International Agricultural Expo opened here, the exhibition of more than 1,500 exhibitors to participate in the exhibition, display high-tech agricultural intelligent equipment and agricultural production materials and other areas of a large number of high-tech, cutting-edge technology products. It is expected that there will be 60,000 times of professional audience to attend the meeting.

According to the introduction, Xinjiang is now continuously increasing scientific and technological efforts to promote agriculture, vigorously promote new equipment, new technologies, the introduction of drone plant protection technology, is committed to improving the professional unity of control and rule of the pest protection system, change the traditional way of agricultural plant protection and application of medicine, for farmers and herdsmen to increase their income and prosperity to provide protection.

Hangzhou Qifei Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. from Zhejiang Province, with its core products A10 and Q10 drones, attracted the favor of Sun Guofeng, a businessman from Bozhou. Sun, who grows cotton, wanted to buy a drone to solve the problem of lack of labor at home.

Liu Haihong, operations director of Beijing Huake Guangtong Information Technology Co., Ltd, recommended her company's smart agriculture cloud platform, which has been set up as a demonstration project in Shihezi, Xinjiang. According to her, the platform, which can be used to apply fertilizer, water and medication with a cell phone app, will free up manpower, improve the quality of agricultural products and increase farmers' economic income.

Agriculture is inseparable from fertilizer application, how to make farmers adopt the new water-soluble fertilizer? Xinjiang Huier Agricultural Group has launched an intelligent fertilizer application system, and it has successfully promoted 1,000 sets of the system in the north and south of Tianshan Mountain since 2017, involving 500,000 mu of land. Its deputy general manager of operations, Ma Jiwei, said the use of the smart fertilization system can increase farmers' mu yield by 5 to 25 percent.

It is reported that the exhibition, in addition to the plant protection drone display, has also set up exhibition areas for intelligent agricultural equipment, harvesting machinery, plant protection machinery, transportation machinery, water-saving machinery, machinery for the forestry and fruit industry, and deep-processing equipment, with a scale of 40,000 square meters.