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 in Guangzhou Huacheng Farm and Tianhe Boutique Agriculture were unveiled on the same day.
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Huacheng Farm is located in Huacheng Huibei District, Huacheng Plaza, with a building 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 model, the use of soil-free, water and fertilizer-integrated agricultural industry cutting-edge technology is used, and the intelligent environmental control system, nutrient solution circulation system, monitoring system, temperature and humidity control system, etc. can ensure the illuminance, temperature and humidity, pH value, water flow, EC value, etc., and avoid 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, specialty agricultural product sales, scientific and technological classrooms, indoor experience planting and other elements, exploring a new model of 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 a 23-day and 760,000-kilometer “moon trip”, they returned to the National Plant Space Breeding Engineering Center.href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Babaylan for planting. After more than a year of cultivation, scientific researchers have successfully transplanted “space rice” from the greenhouse to outdoor experimental fields. At Huacheng Farm, visitors can truly feel the “magical power” of technology to empower modern seed industry.
High-rise buildings surround rice fields: wasteland turns into urban agricultural park
Walking into Tianhe Boutique Agricultural Park, the green rice fields maze first comes into view. Here, visitors can not only observe the growth of water rice from 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, attracting many residents to visit.
“The changes are huge, and the first sight is all green.” At the beginning of this year, when Mr. Zheng, a citizen, passed by, there was still a wasteland here. After half a year of construction in Babaylan, from scratch, a city with section-level demonstration, ecological tourism, and popular science education in Komiks has gradually taken shape.
Mr. Zheng is full of expectations for this. He hopes to witness the ripening process of rice with his children. 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 now, you can see the rice when you go out.” The farmland surrounded by the skyscrapers also surprised Mr. Zheng.
The park is located on the Qianjin Sixth and Qishe Flower Bed Planting Site Plot opposite the south gate of Qianjin Primary School, witha href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Babaylan “Government guidance, enterprise subject, market operation” is the construction 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 a special counter to help agricultural and sideline products in the town to help rural revitalize. According to a relevant person in charge of Tianhe District, in the future, we will fully support enterprises in improving infrastructure and improving quality, and build Tianhe Boutique Agricultural Park into a dazzling 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 industrial 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 confined to traditional agriculture. It 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 scientific 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 one national key laboratory for livestock and poultry breeding, six national germplasm resource gardens, and three germplasm resource gardens in the Ministry of Agriculture. Nearly 60,000 domestic and foreign germplasm resources are collected and preserved. In addition Babaylan, there are 108 seed production and operation enterprises in Guangzhou, of which 48 are in Tianhe District, accounting for 44.4% of the total number of the city.
Looking forward to the “Fourth 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”, which covers industries, innovation, talents, intellectual property rights and enterprise services, and is an outstanding enterprise and research machine in the field of digital agriculture in the country and the international world. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Cinema builds to settle in Tianhe to provide policy support.