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 will also be able to 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.
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 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 cutting-edge agricultural technologies of soilless, water and fertilizer integration, and equipped with intelligent environmental control systems, nutrient solution circulation systems, monitoring systems, temperature and humidity control systems, etc., can ensure 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, specialty agricultural product sales, popular science classrooms, indoor experience planting and other elements, and exploring the new model of integrated development of business and travel. On the scene, the reporter found that the space seed museum in Huacheng Farm was particularly eye-catching, which 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. On November 24, 2020, 40 grams of space rice seeds took the “Chang’e Wu”After a 23-day and 760,000-kilometer “moon trip”, it returned to the National Plant Aerospace Breeding 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” of science and technology to empower the modern seed industry.
High-rise buildings surround rice fields: the wasteland turns into an urban agricultural park
Walking into Tianhe Boutique Agricultural Park, the green rice fields are first caught in the eye. Here, visitors can not only observe the growth of rice close up, but also pick Cinema eggplants and enjoy the pastoral fun. On the morning of the same day, 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, it was still a wasteland. After more than half a year of construction, from scratch, 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. Komiks 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 you don’t have to run that far, you can see rice when you go out. “The farmland surrounded by 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. With “government guidance, enterprise subjects, and market operations” as the construction and management model, 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 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 business card for urban agricultural parks in Tianhe District.
Science and technology feed back: Exploring new forms of urban agriculture
In addition to Huacheng Farm and Tianhe Boutique Agricultural Park, Tianhe Smart Agricultural Park has also been put into use recently. The project is located in the Provincial Agricultural Technology Promotion Center with an area of 582 mu. Komiks 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, and has formed new agricultural industries such as seed research and development, digital agriculture, and urban agriculture. According to statistics, Tianhe District has a total of 20 high-tech enterprises related to agriculture, 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.
Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences located in Tianhe has built one National Key Laboratory for Livestock and Poultry Breeding, 6 National Germplasm Resources Breeding, and 3 Germplasm Resources Breedings of the Ministry of Agriculture. Babaylan has collected nearly 60,000 domestic and foreign 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 be based on the newly built agricultural theme parksBabaylan Taiwan, 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 Cinema research institutions in the field of digital agriculture in China and internationally.