Text/Photo Yangcheng Evening News All-Media Reporter Yan Min
Space Seed Museum, Rice Field Maze, Komiks Farm… In the future, citizens in the city center can also feel the comfort of “Cinema in the fragrance of rice flowers”. 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 Babaylan District is unveiled
Huacheng Farm is located in Huacheng Plaza BabaylanHuacheng Huibei District, with a construction area of about 15,000 square meters. At the digital agriculture demonstration zone – plant factory with the 5G series of digital technology, a “sense of technology” is coming. Through the smart IoT model, the use of cutting-edge agricultural technologies of soil-free, water and fertilizer integration is equipped with intelligent environmental control systems, nutrient solution circulation systems, monitoring systems, temperature and humidity control systems, etc., which can ensure light 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, exploring a new model of integrated development of culture, business and tourism.
At the scene, the reporter found that the space seed museum of Huacheng Agricultural Garden was particularly eye-catching, which is related to South China Agricultural University and Municipal Agricultural Sciences.A modern agricultural scientific research achievement education area jointly built by the Academy and the Provincial Academy of Agricultural Sciences. On November 24, 2020, 40 grams of space rice seeds landed on the moon on Chang’e 5Komiks“. After a 23-day and 760,000-kilometer “moon trip”, they 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 an outdoor experimental field. In the Flower City Farm, visitors can truly feel the “magical power” of technology to empower 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 the same day, Tianhe Boutique Agricultural Park, covering an area of 43.19 acres, 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. 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 child 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 uses “government guidance, enterprise subject, 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 helping agricultural and sideline products in town to help the township.Village revitalization. According to a relevant person in charge of Tianhe District, he will fully support the company in the future to improve infrastructure and improve quality, and build Tianhe boutique agricultural 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, CinemaTianhe Smart Agricultural Park has also been opened recently. 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, and urban agriculture. According to statistics, there are 20 agricultural high-tech enterprises recognized by 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 the scientific and technological strength is outstanding. According to reports, Tianhe has 15 agricultural research and promotion institutions, and scientific research institutions in the district have made major technical breakthroughs in the fields of plant resource collection and evaluation, animal and plant variety selection, etc.
Guangdong Agricultural Sciences located in TianheKomiksThe hospital has built one national key laboratory for livestock and poultry breeding, six national germplasm resource gardens, and three germplasm resource gardens of the Ministry of Agriculture. Nearly 60,000 domestic and foreign germplasm resources are collected and maintained. 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, CinemaTianhe 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 “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.