Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, March 12 (Reporter Han Jianuo) Spring is back and the sun is warm, and the fields are busy. Use Beidou for seed navigation, use drones to fertilize and spray medicine, and calculate harvesting time through satellite remote sensing... This spring, more and more "Gen Z" new farmers have entered the fields, bringing new spring plowing atmosphere.

The post-00s generation became "field nanny"

"I planted more than 500 acres of land, of which more than 300 acres were handed over to the "field nanny" for management. There is no need to worry about missing the farming season during the spring plowing season, which is much more worry-free." Just as I answered the reporter, Cheng Xianhua, a villager in Tuxialong Village, Shashi Town, Yongxin County, Ji'an City, Jiangxi Province praised the "field nanny".

The "Nanny in the Field" he mentioned is Cheng Ruzhang, a new farmer born in the 2000s. He can do everything from ploughing the fields to raising and transplanting seedlings, and then to drone flight defense. Walking through the warehouse that was as good as the chapter, I saw more than 20 modern agricultural machinery including rice transplanters, tractors, rotary tillers.

A few years ago, Cheng Ruzhang planted a field with his father. "I have seen the trend of large-scale and mechanized grain planting." He said that taking the rice transplanting operation during the spring plowing season as an example, in the past, more than 10 people worked hard for an hour to plant a mu of land, but now the rice transplanter can complete it in more than 10 minutes.

"It is not just about experience and physical strength that you can plant good fields. You also need to calculate the business accounts and allocate agricultural machinery resources." Cheng Ruzhang created a comprehensive agricultural service center in the local area to provide surrounding farmers with agricultural services such as mechanical tillage, mechanical insertion, mechanical defense, and mechanical harvesting.

Now, he has received a service "order" of more than 3,000 acres of farmland, and surrounding farmers are happy to entrust the farmland to this sophisticated "new farmer". "The agricultural world is vast and has great potential, and is becoming a 'cool' industry. If you work hard and deeply, you will definitely create a better life." Cheng Ruzhang said confidently.

Use Beidou, farming without taking "detours"

In the past few days, Liu Fukang, a farmer in Minquan County, Shangqiu City, Henan Province, has been particularly busy. This year, he used his newly bought drone to get 1,600 acres of wheat pesticides in four days.

Liu Fukang, born in 1996, likes to learn and try various new agricultural technologies. Advanced and intelligent agricultural equipment is his "love".

He learned that the Beidou navigation system can be used for precise seeding, and even unmanned driving can be realized, so he became interested and soon installed Beidou smart terminals for his two tractors.

Now, Liu Fukang has "played" this system very skillfully. When sowing corn, sitting on the tractor only needs to turn the direction while turning, and there is no need to touch the steering wheel for the rest of the time. He can turn around to observe the situation of sowing behind. As the tractor moves at a constant speed, seeds, fertilizers and drip irrigation belts can be buried in the soil at the same time.

"As long as the plot data is set in the Beidou smart terminal, the seeder can perform straight-line seeding. The error per kilometer is at the centimeter level, the sowing accuracy is significantly improved, and hundreds of acres can be sown every day." Liu Fukang said that after injecting pesticides for his own land, Liu Fukang controlled the drone to inject pesticides into the wheat under his custody.

"I think farming is promising and interesting now. I still have a lot to learn. With the development of smart agriculture in the future, farming will definitely become easier and easier." Liu Fukang said.

From "knowing how to farm" to leading everyone to "farming smartly".

28-year-old Zhang Yikun is a master's degree from studying in Australia. Two years ago, she joined Runguo Agricultural Development Co., Ltd. in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu and became a "new farmer". There are more than 20 young people working with her, many of whom are college students who graduated from agricultural science and machinery.

Their arrival has injected "new blood" into the company's agricultural production, driving the continuous emergence of new business forms, new models and new scenarios.

In Runguo Agriculture, modern technology is widely used in the field of agricultural production, driving more than 10,000 farmers from "farming" to "smart farming": with satellite remote sensing, they can accurately judge the harvest time of farmland; with soil moisture sensors, they can accurately calculate the fertilizer demand of the soil; through Internet of Things technology, unmanned rice transplanters can also operate efficiently in bad weather...

"These black technologies and new projects make me feel that farming can no longer be hard or difficult, and they can even be fresh, interesting, fashionable, and attractive to young people." Zhang Yikun said.

During this spring plowing period, Runguo Agriculture's "New Farmer" team joined hands with Shanghai scientific research institutions to take the lead in carrying out the full process of electrification of wheat "planting, planting, and pipeizing" using a 140-horsepower pure electric tractor. A pure electric tractor can charge electricity for four or five hours at a time, which is more cost-effective and environmentally friendly than using diesel. During the busy farming period, the work is constantly stopped. The mobile energy replenishment car is like a "power bank". The tractor battery can be replaced in 5 minutes, and there is no need to worry about the agricultural machinery "staying in the fields".

According to statistics from relevant departments, there are currently more than 12 million people returning to their hometowns to start businesses across the country, many of whom are young people of "Generation Z". "I hope that agriculture will become smarter, farmers' income will become higher and higher, and agricultural production will be more sustainable." Zhang Yikun said that he hopes that more young people will devote themselves to modern agriculture and use technology, management and innovation to bring more possibilities to China's agriculture.