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 “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 first urban modern agricultural park in the Bay Area 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 – plant factory with 5G series of digital technology, a “sense of technology” is coming. Through the smart IoT model, the use of soil-free, water and fertilizer-integrated agricultural cutting-edge technology is used, and the intelligent environmental control system, nutrient solution circulation system, monitoring system, temperature and humidity control system, etc. can ensure the 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 Farm is the first urban modern agricultural park in Cinema District. The project is positioned at “Babaylan, based in Guangzhou and radiates to the Bay Area”, integrating technical products 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 and Municipal Agricultural Sciences.The modern agricultural research achievements education area jointly built by the Academy and the Provincial Academy of Agricultural SciencesKomiks. 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 greenhouse to an outdoor experimental field. At Huacheng Farm, visitors can truly feel the “magical power” of technology empowering the modern seed industry.
Tall buildings surrounded the rice fields: the wasteland transformed into the urban agricultural park
Walking into the Tianhe Boutique Agricultural Park, the green rice fields maze first came 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 43.19 acres of Cinema Tianhe Boutique Agricultural Park was officially unveiled, attracting many residents to visit.
“Babaylan changed a lot, and the first sight was 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 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, market operation” as the construction and management model, and agricultural enterprises are responsible for planning and construction and after opening the park.operation management.
The reporter saw that the park also set up special counters to assist agricultural and sideline products in towns to help rural revitalization. According to a relevant person in charge of Tianhe District, in the future, we will fully support enterprises in improving infrastructure and improving quality, and build Tianhe Boutique Agriculture 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 Agricultural Park has also been enabled a few days ago. The project is located in the Provincial Agricultural Technology Promotion Center, with an area of 582 mu. 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 cities, Tianhe District has not been confined to traditional agriculture. It has used the regional scientific and technological innovation strength to feed back the transformation of agriculture to digitalization, forming new agricultural industries such as seed research and development, digital agriculture, urban agriculture, etc. According to statistics, there are 20 agricultural high-tech enterprises recognized by Tianhe District, including 30 leading agricultural enterprises at all levels. In 202, the annual output value of Cinema has 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 the introduction, Tianhe has 15 agricultural 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.
The Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences located in Tianhe has built one national key laboratory for livestock and poultry breeding and six national germplasm resource nurseries.://comicmov.com/”>Komiks, the Ministry of Agriculture’s germplasm resource garden, collecting and preserving 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 vigorously promote the newly built agricultural theme parks and other platforms. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Cinema Seed industry, urban agriculture, and digital agriculture agglomeration and development. 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.