Three breakthrough points of future agricultural science and technology: Plant Factory, intelligent agriculture and functional food

Facing the loess and facing the sky-this is people's impression of agriculture. Traditional agriculture is a resource-intensive, labor-intensive industry, but the development of science and technology, especially biotechnology, information technology, logistics industry, it is freeing agriculture from resources such as soil and water and from Labour. So, what is the future of Agriculture? A high school freshman boy once answered: I Wish I could pick a fresh little tomato from the“Plant screen” and put it in my mouth when I was sitting in my study reading I also wanted to tap a little computer or cell phone screen at home to water and fertilize crops and feed cattle and sheep; I made a few phone calls, can Farm the harvest of food, fruit distribution to supermarkets around the country; and, let a person eat the food does not grow fat, let the mother eat both healthy and Slim, forever young... ... If analyzed with a professional eye, his words contain three breakthrough points of future agriculture: Plant Factory, intelligent agriculture and functional food.

Plant factory plant factory is a high efficient and stable plant production system, which can control the growing environment conditions such as light, temperature, humidity, carbon dioxide and nutrition. At present, plant factory is the advanced stage of facility agriculture development, which is regarded as the“Vitality stock” and“Potential stock” in the field of agricultural industrialization, and represents the development direction of future agriculture. Plant factories require fixed facilities, which first require computers and multiple sensors for accurate control, measurement, and feedback of the environment. In simple terms, you set the temperature, humidity, light, carbon dioxide concentration, and so on, depending on the plant, and you measure the growth and physiology of the plant in real time, generating data and feeding it back into the control system, dynamic adjustment of the environment. Therefore, plant factories rely on high-precision intelligent control of facilities. Without soil, plants in plant factories“Eat?” What's different from field production, plant factories require clean growing space, and for some plant factories that grow seedlings and grow tissue, even aseptic culture rooms are needed. Under these conditions, the plant needs to be“Fed” with a nutrient solution. Plant factories provide nutrients to plants by circulating nutrient solutions, which are individually formulated, sterilized, transported, and recycled in plant factories, real-time monitoring of nutrient fluid changes and automatic replenishment and correction, to ensure that the plant at all times in a stable and good nutrient fluid environment. From this point of view, as long as accurate manual control, you can achieve the dream of the growth of all things in plant factories. The plant factory technology breakthrough, makes the high-rise farm, the desert farm, the Space Farm, the navigation farm, the polar region farm and so on to become possible.

Intelligent agriculture in recent years, “Information” and“Artificial intelligence” are not only two popular terms with high usage rate, but also become the core terms and direction of efforts in many industries. Similarly, with the help of information technology and artificial intelligence, intelligent agriculture is getting closer and closer to us. The application of UAV, intelligent robot and big data technology in agriculture will make agriculture enter the era of digital, precise, network and intelligent intelligent agriculture. We can think of the data platform as the“Brain” of smart agriculture, which uses Data Application Services and integrated systems to capture and analyze data and make decisions to guide agricultural production. Using drones and various sensors and cameras to monitor and grasp the water, fertilizer, temperature, crop growth, pests and other information, after“Brain” processing, the special work plan is formed according to different locations, crops and even different plants. On-demand irrigation, accurate fertilization and precise biological control of plant diseases and insect pests are realized by remote control. Compared with traditional agriculture, the future of digital technology-based agriculture will be intensive, large-scale, environmentally friendly and efficient agriculture, which is a mode of production revolution. Therefore, agriculture has become a booming sunrise industry, the future of the farm is pollution-free green eco-farm, farmers will become the envy of the occupation.

Functional food with the improvement of People's living standards, people are no longer satisfied with the full stomach, but more focused on the intake of green, healthy food. The development of biotechnology has promoted the combination of agriculture and health industry. Science and technology have continuously analyzed the relationship between food composition, dietary structure and nutritional condition and human health, so that people understand how to“Eat” to strengthen the body, improve immunity. Secondly, modern biotechnology makes it possible to cultivate plants with special functions. With the improvement of breeding and cultivation techniques, some nutrients or functional substances can be quantitatively enriched in agricultural products, lead the future agriculture to the development of functional agriculture, production of high-quality, nutrition and food with some special functions, also often known as functional agricultural products.