In 120 days, artificial intelligence VS top farmers, who challenge strawberry planting in the Yunnan Plateau, who will be the winner?
On May 25th, China Agricultural University and Pinduoduo announced that they will jointly hold the first “Duodu Agricultural Research Science and Technology Contest”, inviting young agricultural scientists, top Planting masters team up separately, using advanced artificial intelligence or superb gardening techniques to challenge strawberry planting in the Yunnan Plateau. In the four-month competition, the top players from the global agricultural field will use “human-machine competition” to learn about suitable cultivation methods for local promotion.
This competition will be conducted under the technical guidance of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), which is also the first interdisciplinary and cross-organization organized by Internet companies + universities in China Smart agriculture competition in the field.
“China’s agricultural development is in a period of major transformation. The rapid innovation and major breakthroughs in agricultural technology will have a huge impact on the development of the agricultural industry.” Gong Yuanshi, Vice President of China Agricultural University It was stated that the two sides will awaken more young farmers and scholars to participate in this competition, and explore a more low-cost and localized digital agricultural solution in the context of “big country and small farmers”.
Young scholars and experts from large planting counties gather to explore and challenge “Future Agriculture”
According to The organizing committee of the “Science and Technology Contest” introduced that the “Agricultural Planting Human-Machine Competition” will be divided into a science and technology group and a traditional group, focusing on recruiting young students from universities and institutions and top farmers in strawberry-growing counties.
located in the competition base in Yunnan, pre-experiment and preparation work are intensified In progress In the nearly four-month competition, the technology team will use IoT devices, cameras and sensors to collect greenhouse planting environment and crop growth data in a digital “unmanned greenhouse” to create a A set of artificial intelligence planting solutions, and iterative optimization based on plant growth model and complex climate environment, to achieve “unmanned production” with both quality and efficiency. The traditional team will use rich planting experience and superb management technology, to the traditional “Small farmer production” undergoes refined upgrades, challenging the labor of the science and technology teamsmart system.
Starting May 6, the competition will be recruited in major universities and strawberry growing counties at home and abroad, from Wageningen University, Tunte University, Ein Young scholars from top agricultural universities in the Netherlands such as Huo Wen University of Science and Technology, as well as domestic agricultural universities such as Nanjing Agricultural University and Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University, and top farmers in the top ten strawberry counties in China, including Donggang in Liaoning and Changfeng in Anhui, have signed up.
“This is an open competition, we encourage students or farmers from schools, institutions, and companies to join in the form of mixed teams to jointly explore smart agriculture Land application in China. “Rank, the person in charge of the competition organizing committee, said that the core purpose of the competition is not to” win or lose “, but to encourage and inspire more practitioners to enter this field and explore agricultural science and technology achievements that are easy to promote.
At present, the recruitment of the contest is still underway. The deadline is June 6. Players can register through the contest website https://smartagricompetition.com/register. The teams that meet the conditions will be invited to participate in the preliminary round, and the ideas and plans of the “human-machine competition” will be displayed in front of the panel of experts. The four teams with the highest scores in each group will enter the final.
15 academicians and scholars form an expert group to encourage participants to diversify and innovate
In this competition, More than 15 academicians and experts will serve as judges and scientific consultants, respectively, to provide intellectual support for contestants, and to judge the results fairly and scientifically.
The expert group members include: Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, Director and Chief Expert of National Agricultural Information Technology Research Center, Zhao Chunjiang; Dean of Nanjing Agricultural University Smart Agriculture Research Institute, Nature Cao Weixing, former deputy minister of the Ministry of Resources; professor of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, consultant of the National Food and Nutrition Advisory Committee and former executive deputy director Mei Fangquan; professor of the School of Information and Electrical Engineering of China Agricultural University, distinguished professor of the Yangtze River Scholars of the Ministry of Education, and International Information Processing Federation Li Daoliang, Chairman of the Committee for Advanced Information Processing of Agriculture (IFIP); Selvaraju Ramasamy, Director of the Research and Extension Division of the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Department of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization.
In the first “Duodu Agricultural Research Science and Technology Contest”, authoritative scientists from all over the world will serve as judges and scientific consultants respectively Zhao Chunjiang, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said that the competition will The three key indicators of “advancedness, technical practicability, and technical economics” are evaluated. For the final output of strawberries, it is more important than output and quality, and encourages diversified model innovation.
In order to further promote the application of the results of the competition, Pinduoduo will also provide scientific research funding support for the winning players. At the same time, the players will have the opportunity to work with the top domestic experts in the Pinduoduo poverty alleviation project. “Duo Duo Farm” helps many small farmers to apply digital agricultural technology.
Zhao Jiazhen, co-founder of Pinduoduo, said that the current application and production of digital agriculture in China is still in The primary stage. As one of China’s largest agricultural product ascending platforms, Pinduoduo should do everything in its power to promote the application of world-class digital agricultural solutions in China. “This is both our long-term strategy and heavy social responsibility.”
“Technology is changing agriculture and food production, how to do a good job of digital transformation of agriculture is a must answer. “Zhong Zhongjun, assistant representative of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in China, said that FAO has developed a variety of applications, databases and platforms to support agricultural digitalization in countries around the world. He also hopes that contestants can actively respond to challenges and formTo form a set of practical and feasible digital agriculture technology models and solutions with significant cost-saving and efficiency gains, duplication and dissemination, to promote the development of digital agriculture