The Era of Intelligent Agriculture and Intelligent Agricultural Machinery

Digital agriculture and smart agriculture are the advanced stages of agricultural production and the development direction of modern agriculture. With the advent of the 5G era, modern technologies such as big data, the Internet of Things, and cloud computing have been gradually applied to all aspects of agricultural production, which has greatly promoted the development of agricultural modernization, and the era of "smart agriculture" has gradually arrived.

At present, the construction of smart agriculture in my country has achieved initial results. According to the data of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, as of the end of the "13th Five-Year Plan", a total of 81 digital agriculture pilot projects have been invested in the construction, 210 national agricultural and rural informatization demonstration bases have been identified, and 426 agricultural Internet of Things application achievements and models have been promoted. The new generation of information technologies such as big data and artificial intelligence are integrated and applied in all aspects of agricultural production and operation. More than 600,000 tractors and combine harvesters are equipped with operation monitoring and intelligent control terminals based on Beidou positioning. The number of plant protection unmanned aerial vehicles has exceeded 70,000 units, with an operating area of nearly 220 million mu.