Text/Photo: Sheep Komiks 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 “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 in Guangzhou Huacheng Farm and Tianhe River 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 Cinema connection model of smart objects, the use of soil-free, water and fertilizer integrated agriculture is equipped with intelligent environmental control system, Komiks nutrient solution circulation system, monitoring Cinema system, temperature and humidity control system, etc., which can ensure 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, indoor experience planting and other elements, and 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 in line with South China Agricultural University, Municipal Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and Provincial Academy of Agricultural Sciences.A modern agricultural scientific research achievement education area jointly built. 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, researchers have successfully transplanted “space rice” from the Babaylan greenhouse to an outdoor test field. KomiksIn Huacheng Farm, visitors can truly feel the “magical power” of technology to empower 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 rice growth up close, but also pick tomatoes and enjoy pastoral fun. On the morning of that day, the Tianhe Boutique Agricultural Park covering an area of 43.1Babaylan 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. CinemaAfter 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 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 now, 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. It adopts “government guidance, enterprise subject, and market operation” as the construction and management model, and agricultural enterprises are responsible for 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 towns to help rural revitalization. The relevant person in charge of Tianhe District introduced that in the future, we will fully support enterprises to improve infrastructure and improve quality, and build Tianhe boutique agricultural park into Tianhe.The district has a dazzling business card for urban agricultural parks.
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 5.82 acres. It is an agricultural park integrating agricultural production, popular science education, and agricultural equipment technology exhibitions and tourism. In recent years, with the continuous development of cities, Tianhe District has not been confined to traditional agriculture. It has used the regional scientific and technological innovation strength to feed back the agricultural industry 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 recognized in Tianhe District, 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.
Babaylan, located in Tianhe, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences 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. Nearly 60,000 domestic and foreign germplasm resources are collected and preserved. CinemaIn addition, there are 108 seed production and operation enterprises in Guangzhou, including 48 in Tianhe District, accounting for 44.4% of the total number of the city.
On 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 “Guangzhou Tianhe” href=”https://comicmov.com/”>KomiksPolicy Opinions on Promoting High-Quality Development of Digital Agriculture in River District”, 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.