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 “Rice Flowers Talk about Benefits in the fragrance”. On September 22, on the occasion of the fourth Chinese Farmers’ Reap Festival, two major agricultural theme parks, Guangzhou Huacheng Farm and Tianhe Boutique Agricultural Park, were unveiled on the same day.
Space seeds “moving in”: The Bay Area’s first urban modern agricultural park is unveiled
Huacheng Farm is located in Huacheng Huibei District, Huacheng Plaza, with a construction area of about 15,000 square meters. In the digital agricultural demonstration zone displaying digital agriculture technology with the 5G system, a “sense of technology” is coming. Through the smart IoT model, the use of cutting-edge agricultural technologies without soil, water and fertilizer is equipped with intelligent environmental control systems, nutrient solution circulation systems, monitoring systems, temperature and humidity control systems, etc., which can ensure 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.
Worth it is mentioned that Huacheng Agricultural Park 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, 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, which is related to South China Agricultural University.f=”https://comicmov.com/”>Komiks, the Municipal Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and the Provincial Academy of Agricultural Sciences jointly built by the modern agricultural research achievements education area. 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 for planting. After more than a year of cultivation, scientific researchers have successfully transplanted “space rice” from the greenhouse to an outdoor test field. At Huacheng Farm, visitors can truly feel the “magical power” of technology empowering the 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 rice from up close, but also pick tomatoes and enjoy pastoral fun. On the morning of that day, the Tianhe Boutique Agricultural Park, which covers an area of 43.19 acres, was officially unveiled, attracting many residents to visit.
“There are a lot of changes, and the first sight is 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 Cinema‘s 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 surprised Zheng Xiansheng.
The park is located on the Qianjin Sixth and Qishe Flower Bed Planting Sites opposite the south gate of Qianjin Primary School. It is built with “government guidance, enterprise subjects, and market operations”.ov.com/”>Babaylan set up a management model, and agricultural enterprises are responsible for planning, construction and operation and management after opening.
Reporter Komiks saw that the park also set up special counters to assist agricultural and sideline products in town to help rural revitalization. The relevant person in charge of Tianhe District introduced that in the future, they will fully support enterprises to improve infrastructure and improve quality, 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 Agriculture Park has also been put into use recently. The project is located in the Provincial Agricultural Technology Promotion Center, with an area of 582 acres. 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 the city, Tianhe District is not limited to traditional agriculture, and leverages the regional scientific and technological innovation strengthCinema feeds 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 in Tianhe District, including 30 leading agricultural enterprises at all levels, and the annual output value of 2Cinema in 020, 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 Komiks have outstanding scientific and technological strength. According to reports, Tianhe has 15 agricultural science and technology. Cinema research and promotion institutions, and the scientific research and development institutions in the district have made major technological breakthroughs in the fields of plant resource collection and appraisal, animal and plant species selection and breeding.
Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences located in TianheThere is one national key laboratory for livestock and poultry breeding, six national germplasm resource gardens, and three germplasm resource gardens of the Ministry of Agriculture, and nearly 60,000 domestic and foreign germplasm resources are collected and preserved. 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 many 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.