Abstract: Plant factories are the Internet of Things, big data, and cloud computing and other technologies implanted in agricultural production, is the product of the industrialization of agricultural cultivation, and is the direction of the 21st century development of agricultural products cultivation, which marks the highest stage of modern agricultural development.
"Industry has entered the network and intelligent stage, agriculture is no exception. In the next 10 years, plant factories will become one of the new industries with the most investment value." On June 13-14, 2018 Shanghai International Indoor Plant Factory Symposium was held in Shanghai, where all kinds of professional "bulls" from all over the world gathered together to have an in-depth discussion on the new progress, new concepts, new technologies, new materials and new achievements in the field of plant factories around the world.
The reporter found that the symposium attracted a large number of world-wide "heavyweight" experts: for example, the world's leading scholars of facility horticulture, Professor Emeritus of Chiba University, Japan, Japan Plant Factory Association Chairman Dr. Toyoki Kozai; the world's pioneer of vertical agriculture, the father of vertical agriculture, Dr. Dickson Despommier, Professor of Columbia University, USA; Ms. Christine Zimmerann-Loessl, President of the German Association for Vertical Farming (AVF), the first non-profit organization in the world; and Chairman of China's National Intelligent Plant Factory Alliance, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS); Dr. Yang Qichang, researcher of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS); Prof. Yu Jingquan, deputy director of the Department of Agricultural Biology and Environment of Zhejiang University (ZJU), subject leader of the State Key Discipline of Vegetable Science at ZJU, and Yangtze River Scholar; and Dr. Zheng Huijiong, executive director of the Chinese Society of Space Science, director of the Chinese Society of Cell Biology, and researcher of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
The topics discussed in the two-day meeting are also in-depth and detailed, in addition to the current situation and trend of the development of global indoor plant factories, but also involves indoor plant factories, plant supplemental light technology and photophysiological research, energy solutions and plant resistance to low and high temperatures, sensing technology and intelligent control technology, as well as the exploration of the industrialization of indoor plant factories, innovation and business models, etc.
The meeting will be held in Beijing, China, from March to April.
Experts pointed out that the plant factory is the Internet of Things, big data and cloud computing and other technologies implanted in agricultural production, is the product of the industrialization of agricultural planting, but also the 21st century agricultural planting development direction, which marks the highest stage of modern agricultural development. It marks the highest stage of modern agricultural development. It is of extraordinary significance that professional "bulls" from all over the world gather in Shanghai to discuss the development status and future space of global indoor plant factories. As a mega-city, Shanghai's land is limited, and the supply of agricultural products is a heavy task, plant factories supporting technology and equipment is mature, to explore the possibility of factory production of agricultural products. At the same time, the current agriculture has reached a stage where we can get rid of the "eat with the sky", and the use of new technology of plant factories to create a new mode of agricultural production and a new environment, which can attract more young people to devote themselves to modern agriculture. In the future, on the one hand, people can use plant factories to produce specific functions of agricultural products, or directed to improve the nutritional quality of agricultural products, so that life is healthier; on the other hand, plant factories can also be more effective control of pests and diseases, so that the product is more green and safer.
Plant factories set a variety of disciplines and technologies, fundamentally changing the concept of agricultural cultivation, is an innovative way of agricultural cultivation and agricultural modernization, but also a new type of agricultural production and enhancement of agricultural cultivation for the manufacturing industry's best program. In recent years, plant factories in Europe and the United States, Japan, South Korea, Singapore and China, the rapid development of a number of famous enterprises and investors have joined the development of plant factories and industrial promotion.
At present, the plant factory has experienced the early experimental exploration stage, the mid-term demonstration and application stage, stepped into the current rapid development stage. In these years, plant factories have explored some business models while developing technology. For example, in the United States, Europe and China, the model of using plant factories to grow high value-added herbs has emerged, and in Japan there are vegetable plant factories. At the same time, there are also small-scale specialty plant factories in combination with supermarkets, shopping malls, restaurants, office buildings, and company cafeterias at home and abroad. In addition, there are also membership models for special groups and high-income groups to provide safe and fresh vegetables.
? But the revolution and development of any new industry will encounter challenges and bottlenecks. Currently, the challenges faced by plant factories include high initial construction costs, high energy consumption of light sources and air conditioning, and low economic efficiency. This requires the entire industry to combine innovations in industry and other fields and new material technologies to reduce equipment and material costs, utilize abandoned factory buildings as well as basements to reduce construction costs, and utilize LED technology and the development of energy technology to improve the light efficiency and energy efficiency of plant factories, thus reducing operating costs. At the same time, the use of automation and intelligent technology to reduce the use of labor and reduce labor costs, the use of agricultural scientists' wisdom to improve the yield of planting, improve productivity and the quality of crops, so as to enhance economic efficiency. This also requires entrepreneurs with experience in industrial operations to introduce advanced business models into the factory production and marketing of plants.
Experts suggest that only through the ****together efforts of scientific and technological workers, academic researchers, and business elites in various fields, the new industry of plant factories will successfully flourish around the world and rapidly cross into the era of intelligent and industrialized crop production.
It is understood that, as one of the organizers of this international symposium, the Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences in recent years has been the facilities of agriculture as an important area of research and focus on cultivating the advantages of the discipline, plant factories and facilities in the field of agricultural technology, a solid foundation for research, a stable team of talent, a complete range of professional categories, as early as 1998, the formation of a domestic only to the facilities of horticulture technology, mainly in the application of basic research of the interdisciplinary In January 2011, approved by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Municipal Academy of Agricultural Sciences also set up the National Engineering and Technology Research Center for Facility Agriculture, becoming the only national engineering and technology research center in the field of facility agriculture in China.
In recent years, the Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences focus on strengthening the extreme environment of the plant factory technology, low-carbon environmental control plant factory technology and container plant factory production technology research and development, and achieved a number of significant results. In the future, the academy will be built in the field of plant factory innovation base, scientific and technological achievements into a display base, talent training base and international cooperation and exchange base as the goal, to further enhance the level and ability to serve the whole country in plant factory technology, for Shanghai to take the lead in the basic realization of the modernization of agriculture, the construction of modern agriculture in urban areas to provide a strong scientific and technological support.
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