It can collect crop-based environmental data and crop data, including nutrition, meteorology, soil, and crop signs.
It is learnt that Jianyun Technology ’s ⻢ Bowl Dioscorea health monitoring system “Ploughing Simple” recently announced that it has obtained a multi-million-dollar angel round investment from Jiazi Sailing. This round of investment will be mainly used for the further optimization and promotion of products.
In 2018, The annual planting area of major potato crops in China exceeded 150 million mu, accounting for about 8% of the country’s available arable land. Among them, The potato planting area is about 71.37 million mu . “The fixed investment for one acre of potatoes is about 3,000 yuan a year.” Cui Jingbo, CEO of Jian Yun, said, “The development of the domestic potato planting industry requires scientific field management starting from the focus on the crop itself. This is the market we are targeting.” < / p>
For the monitoring of the full growth cycle of potato planting, the simple solution is to collect all-round data covering the environment and crops through intelligently designed intelligent weather stations, soil meters and other IoT devices and offline operations. Upload it to the cloud; then combine the obtained data with existing historical data and models, such as continuous iterative crop models, pest and disease models, and planting models, and then output accurate judgments and recommend solutions; finally, through APP, webpage, SMS, etc. Provide the system diagnosis results to relevant growers and distributors to help them provide decision-making assistance for the next agricultural operation.
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According to Cui Jingbo, Jian Yun’s core competitiveness lies in the mastery of crop models and data acquisition methods that fit the planting scene. The company team members have an average of nearly 20 years of experience in the potato industry. Has more than 10 years of practical guidance experience in the prevention and control of potato diseases such as late blight. The team has a reserve area of more than 300,000 mu of potato.
Ploughing is easyCollects crop-based environmental data and crop data, including nutrition, meteorology, soil, and crop signs. Based on this, Farming Simple currently assists seed potato, pesticide, and fertilizer distributors to provide growers with small-area weather monitoring services, dynamic soil monitoring water quality testing services, late blight early warning and disease identification services, potato nutrition and status monitoring services, and yield prediction. Quality testing services and data-driven potato sales services total 6 services. Jian Yun hopes to use their data services to improve the capabilities of distributors’ agricultural technology services and help distributors upgrade their services.
“At the current stage, the simple charging model is mainly to collect software service fees and hardware costs of related intelligent acquisition equipment.” Cui Jingbo said, “Dynamic soil and water quality monitoring businesses, farmers have to call for a dedicated testing team in the past. The price is about 500 yuan / mu. Late blight is a serious disease that can lead to potato crop failure. Farmers also invest a lot in the prevention and control of late blight each year. In contrast, Jian Yun gives the data and The accurate solution of the crop model, the precision of the input products, the input amount and the input time have effectively reduced the agricultural production costs and helped the crops improve the yield and quality. “
At present, farming simply serves only one potato category, and does not plan to expand other categories in the short term. Asked why, Cui Jingbo told me that one is because the potato production and output value are relatively stable and the market is less affected; the other is potato The maturity of industrialization is very high, the industrial division of labor is more and more fine, and the demand for services is very strong. Third, the fixed asset investment in potato cultivation is relatively large, and the willingness and ability of the main players to pay are strong.
Cultivation was officially launched in December 2019. At present, intelligent collection equipment has covered about 100,000 acres of potatoes, and has more than 300 grower users and nearly 10 dealer users.
“These users are paid users. The company has not yet launched a large-scale promotion. After that, the company will use ground push and exhibitions to promote products.” Cui Jingbo said, “In the future, data-driven potato trading services It will also be the company ’s key business. “