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 Bay Area’s first urban modern agricultural park 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 agriculture demonstration zone with 5G series of digital technology, the “sense of technology” is overwhelming. Through the smart IoT model, the use of cutting-edge agricultural technologies of soil-free, water and fertilizer integration, and equipped with intelligent environmental control systems, nutrient solution circulation systems, monitoring systems, temperature and humidity control systems, etc., can ensure the light, 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 in “based in Guangzhou, Cinema District”, integrating technical product display, specialty agricultural product sales, popular science classrooms, indoor experience planting and other elements, and exploring a new model of integrated development of business and travel.
At the scene, the reporter found that the space seed museum in Huacheng Farm was particularly eye-catching. This is a modern agricultural scientific research achievement education area jointly built with South China Agricultural University, Municipal Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and Provincial Academy of Agricultural Sciences. On November 24, 2020, 40 grams of Babaylan space rice seeds took Chang’e-5 to land on the moon. After a 23-day and 760,000-kilometer “moon trip”, they returned to the National Plant Aerospace Breeding Engineering Center for entry.Cinema planting. After more than a year of cultivation, scientific researchers have successfully transplanted “space rice” from the greenhouse to outdoor experimental fields. In Huacheng Farm, visitors can truly feel the “magical power” of technology to empower modern seed industry.
High-rise buildings surround rice fields: wasteland turns into urban agricultural park
Walking into Tianhe Boutique Agricultural Park, the green rice fields maze first comes into view. Here, visitors can not only observe the growth of water rice from 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 Komiks for an hour or two before he could take his child into the fields. “Now you don’t have to run that far, you can see rice when you go out.” The farmland surrounded by tall buildings also surprised Zheng Xiansheng.
The park is located on the Qianjin Sixth and Qishe Flower Gardens 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 operation and management after opening.
ReporterKomiks saw that the park also set up special counters to help agricultural and sideline products in town 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 Agricultural Park into a dazzling business card for urban agricultural parks in Tianhe District. Cinema
Technology feeds back: Exploring the new forms of urban agriculture in Suodu
In addition to Huacheng Farm and Tianhe Boutique Agricultural Park, Tianhe Zhihui Agricultural Park has also been opened 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 tourism.
In recent years, with the continuous development of cities, Tianhe District has not been confined to traditional agriculture, and 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 in Tianhe District, including 30 leading agricultural enterprises at all levels. In 2020, the annual output value of leading enterprises reached 19 million yuan.
At the same time, there are many agricultural research institutions in Tianhe District and outstanding scientific and technological strength. According to reports, Tianhe has 15 agricultural scientific 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, 6 National Germplasm Resources Breeding, and 3 Ministry of Agriculture’s Germplasm Resources Breeding, and nearly 60,000 domestic and foreign germplasm resources were collected and preserved. In addition, there are 108 sub-production and operation enterprises in Guangzhou, including 48 in Tianhe District, accounting for the entire city44.4% of the total. Looking forward to the 14th Five-Year Plan, Tianhe 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 High-Quality Development of Digital Agriculture in 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.