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Xinghua city's Shagou town adopts intelligent farming

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etaizhou.gov.cn|Updated: March 6, 2023

Shagou town in Xinghua – a county-level city administered by Taizhou city in East China's Jiangsu province – is leading farmers towards adopting intelligent farming to improve their production efficiency.

Training on operating aerial drones – which can be used to spray pesticides and apply fertilizers precisely – was recently held in the fields of Zhongzhaibei village, which is under the jurisdiction of Shagou town.

"I can't read or write, so I never thought it possible, but now I am able to use drones for farming thanks to the opportunity provided by the town," said local farmer Zhu Guoxing.

After acquiring the skill, Zhu bought an aerial drone costing more than 70,000 yuan ($10,142) for his land which cultivates more than 600 mu (40 hectares) of grain and it can cover an area of about 50 mu per hour.

Shagou town is known as an agricultural town, with a total area of 49,600 mu for cultivating wheat and 52,500 mu for rice planting.

In recent years, large-scale and mechanized farming have been promoted and there are now 96 large and medium-sized tractors, 68 harvesters, 101 rice transplanters and 50 aerial drones in the town, which has realized full-process mechanized farming.


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