Text/Photo Yangcheng Evening News All-Media Reporter Yan Min
Space Seed Museum, Rice Field Maze, Tomato Farm…BabaylanIn 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 Cinema Boutique Agricultural Park, were unveiled on the same day.
Space seeds “moving in”: The Bay Area’s first urban modern agricultural park debuted
Flower CityBabaylanThe 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, the use of soil-free, water-fertilizer-integrated agricultural cutting-edge technology, equipped with intelligent environmental control system, nutrient solution circulation system, monitoring system, temperature and humidity control system, etc., can ensure light illuminance, temperature and humidity, pH value, water flow rate, 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, popular science classrooms, and experience planting in the room, 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 research achievement education area jointly built with South China Agricultural University, Municipal Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and Provincial Academy of Agricultural Sciences. 20201CinemaOn January 24, 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 Aerospace Cultivation Engineering Center for 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” that science and technology can enable modern seed industry.
High-rise buildings surrounded the rice fields: the wasteland turns into an urban agricultural park
Walking into Tianhe Boutique Agricultural Park, the green rice fields maze first came into view. Here, visitors can not only observe the growth of rice up close, but also pick tomatoes and enjoy the fun of the pastoral. 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 were huge, and the first sight was all green. “At the beginning of this year, when Mr. Zheng, a citizen, passed by, it was still a wasteland. After 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 really 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, Komiks can see rice without running so far. “The farmland surrounded by the tall buildings also surprised Mr. Zheng.
The park is located on the Qianjin Sixth and Qishe Flower Bed Planting Sites opposite the south gate of Qianjin Primary School. It uses “government-guided, Cinema‘s enterprise body and market operation” as the construction management model. Agricultural enterprises are responsible for the planning and construction and operation and management after opening.
The reporter saw that the park also set up a special counter for agricultural and sideline products in the town to help rural revitalization. TianheAccording to the relevant person in charge of the district, he will fully support enterprises in improving infrastructure and improving quality in the future, and build Tianhe Boutique Agricultural Park into a dazzling urban agricultural park business card 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 confined to traditional agriculture. With the help of the regional scientific and technological innovation strength, Cinema has fed back to the transformation of agriculture to digital transformation, 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 identified in Tianhe District, including 30 leading agricultural enterprises at Cinema at all levels, with annual output value of leading enterprises reaching 19.2 billion yuan in 2020.
At the same time, there are many agricultural research institutions in Tianhe District, and their scientific and technological strength is outstanding. 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 field of plant resource collection and evaluation, 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, and 3 collected and preserved.Nearly 60,000 germplasm resources at home and abroad. 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”, 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.