Text/Photo Yangcheng Evening News All-Media Reporter Yan Min
Space Seed Museum, Rice Field Maze, Tomato Farm… In the future, citizens in the city center can also feel the comfort of “the fragrance of rice flowers speaks of good fortune”. On September 22, on the occasion of the Fourth China Farmers’ Harvest Festival, two major agricultural theme parks, Guangzhou Huacheng Farm and Tianhe Boutique Agricultural Park, were unveiled on the same day.
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Huacheng Farm is located in Huacheng Huibei District, Huacheng Plaza, with a construction area of about 15,000 square meters. In the digital agriculture demonstration zone using 5G series of digital technology to display the digital agriculture demonstration zone – plant factories, a “sense of technology” is coming. Through the smart IoT mode, Cinema uses soil-free, water and fertilizer-integrated agricultural cutting-edge technologies, equipped with intelligent environmental control systems, nutrient solution circulation systems, monitoring systems, temperature and humidity control systems, etc., which can ensure light illuminance, temperature and humidity, pH value, water flow, EC value, etc., avoiding the impact of natural environmental pollution and diseases and pests on vegetables.
It is worth mentioning that Huacheng Farm is currently the first urban modern agricultural park in the Greater Bay Area. The project is positioned as “based in Guangzhou and radiating to the Bay Area”, integrating technical product display, characteristic agricultural product sales, popular science classrooms, indoor experience planting and other elements, and exploring a new Cinema model integrating the integrated development of culture, business and tourism.
At the scene, the reporter found that the space seed museum in Huacheng Farm was particularly eye-catching. This is a modern agricultural scientific research achievement education area jointly built with South China Agricultural University, Municipal Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and Provincial Academy of Agricultural Sciences. On November 24, 2020, 40 grams of space rice seeds landed on the moon on Chang’e-5. After 23 days and 760,000 kilometers of “Komiks” around the moon, he returned to the National Plant Aerospace Breeding Engineering Center for entry.Planting. After more than a year of cultivation, researchers successfully transplanted “space rice” from the greenhouse to outdoor experimental fields. In Huacheng Farm, visitors can truly feel the “magical power of Cinema” that is empowered by technology to enable modern seed industry.
High-rise buildings surround rice fields: wasteland turns into urban agricultural parkBabaylan
Walking into Tianhe Boutique Agricultural Park, the green rice fields maze first came into view. Here, visitors can not only observe rice growth up close, but also pick tomatoes and enjoy pastoral fun. On the morning of the same day, the Tianhe Boutique Agricultural Park covering an area of 43.19 acres was officially unveiled, and Cinema attracted many residents to visit Babaylan. “There is a lot of change, and at first glance, Komiks are all green.” At the beginning of this year, when Mr. Zheng, a citizen, passed by, it was still a wasteland. KomiksAfter more than half a year of construction, an urban agricultural park with section-level demonstration, ecological tourism, and popular science education has gradually taken shape.
Mr. Zheng is full of expectations for this. He hopes to take his children to witness the ripening of rice with his own eyes. In the past, he had to drive for an hour or two before he could take his children into the fields. “Now you don’t have to run that far, you can see rice when you go out.” The farmland surrounded by tall buildings also makes Zheng KomiksMr. Sir was very surprised.
The park is located on the Qianjin Sixth and Qishe Flower Bed Planting Sites opposite the south gate of Qianjin Primary School. It adopts “government guidance, enterprise subject, and market operation” as the construction and management model, and agricultural enterprises are responsible for planning and construction and operation and management after opening.
The reporter saw that the park also set up special counters to assist agricultural and sideline products in towns to help rural revitalization. According to a relevant person in charge of Tianhe District, he will fully support enterprises to improve basic facilities and improve quality in the future, and make Tianhe boutique agricultural park a brilliant business card for urban agricultural parks in Tianhe District.
Technology feeds back: Exploring new forms of urban agriculture
In addition to Huacheng Farm and Tianhe Boutique Agricultural Park, Tianhe Smart Agricultural Park has also been opened a few days ago. The project is located in the Provincial Agricultural Technology Promotion Center with an area of 582 mu. It is an agricultural park integrating agricultural production, popular science education, agricultural equipment technology display, and tourism.
In recent years, with the continuous development of cities, Tianhe District has not been limited to traditional agriculture, and has used the regional scientific and technological innovation strength to feed back the transformation of agriculture to digitalization, forming new agricultural industries such as seed research and development, digital agriculture, and urban agriculture. According to statistics, there are 20 agricultural high-tech enterprises recognized by Tianhe District, including 30 leading agricultural enterprises at all levels. In 2020, the annual output value of leading enterprises reached 19.2 billion yuan.
At the same time, there are many agricultural research institutions in Tianhe District and outstanding scientific and technological strength. According to reports, Tianhe has 15 agricultural research and promotion institutions, and scientific research institutions in the district have made major technological breakthroughs in the fields of plant resource collection and appraisal, animal and plant variety selection and breeding.
The Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences located in Tianhe has built a national key laboratory for livestock and poultry breeding, 6 national germplasm resource gardens, and 3 germplasm resource gardens of the Ministry of Agriculture.The country’s preservation has nearly 60,000 copies of internal and external germplasm resources. In addition, there are 108 seed production and operation enterprises in Guangzhou, including 48 in Tianhe District, accounting for 44.4% of the total number in the city.
Looking forward to the 14th Five-Year Plan, Tianhe will base itself on the newly built agricultural theme parks and other platforms to vigorously promote the agglomeration and development of seed industry, urban agriculture, and digital agriculture. It is reported that Tianhe District has formed the “Policy Opinions on Promoting the High-Quality Development of Digital Agriculture in Tianhe District, Guangzhou City”, which covers multiple aspects such as industry, innovation, talents, intellectual property rights and enterprise services, and provides policy support for outstanding enterprises and research institutions in the national and international digital agriculture field to settle in Tianhe.