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China: Shanghai’s first unmanned farm

Shanghai planned to create 13 high-quality urban agriculture development pilot zones during the country’s 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-2025), and the first is the recently launched “digital unmanned farm” in Waigang Town, Jiading District.

By Zong Shukang
CCTN
Nov 27, 2020

Excerpt:

“In the next few years, relying on new-generation information technologies such as the Internet of Things, 5G, and artificial intelligence, an unmanned production operation mode of farm production and management can be completed by remotely controlling farm facilities, equipment, and machinery”, said Zhang.

It is also estimated that by the end of 2022, five sets of unmanned tractors, unmanned rice transplanters, unmanned sprayers, and unmanned harvesters will each be modified to meet operational needs, and the demonstration area will be expanded to 1,600 Mu (264 acres), according to the base’s report.

From 2023 to 2025, it will enter the promotion stage, and the technology and platform of the project will be promoted and applied to a scale of 10,000 Mu (165 acres) so that the project will be widely promoted and applied from demonstration research, the reports said.

Since 2004, academician Luo Xiwen, a Chinese agricultural mechanization engineering expert, and his team have researched key technologies for agricultural machinery navigation and automatic operations.

At present, China has carried out a large number of pilot applications on unmanned farms in provinces like Fujian, Jiangsu, Shandong, and other places.

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