From April 25 to 27, the first smart agriculture expo hosted by the Foreign Economic Cooperation Center opened in Shandong Province. About thousands of internationally renowned companies, domestic and foreign scientific research institutions and domestic brand participate in the expo. The expo covers an area of over 30,000 square meters. This is the only national-level, international professional exhibition in the field of smart agriculture approved by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs.
This expo take “ intelligent agriculture digital village” as the theme, concentrate on the “ high and super grade, precision, advance” service and technology in global agricultural field. Six exhibition areas, including smart agriculture exhibition area, digital countryside exhibition area and food loss reduction technology exhibition area, have been set up to showcase China's smart agriculture development achievements and the world's cutting-edge smart agriculture technologies, and boost the construction of international smart agriculture technology exchange and cooperation platform, it will contribute international cooperation to China’s comprehensive rural revitalization and rural agricultural modernization.
China absorb so many states with developed agricultural technology like Germany, Israel, Holland, Japan and America to participate in this expo as the world’s largest smart agriculture application and target market. The Shanghai exhibition area of Synx navigation, Hua Wei Group also showed their own knock-out products. The Expo presents four highlights:
Respond to the call and keep pace with the Times. Report on the 20th National Congress of the CPC emphasized “ accelerate the construction of agricultural power”, the No. 1 document of the CPC Central Committee “ promote the development of smart agriculture”, the No.1 Document of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs arranged “ Vigorously develop the smart agriculture and digital village”. This expo closely follow the theme of The Times, respond to the country’s call, organize exchanges and mutual learning, demonstrate ministerial responsibility.
Follow the hot point closely, aim frontier area. As the key factors of production, digital technology is the strongest weapon to improve agricultural and rural total factor productivity in the future. Digital technology is also at the forefront of global scientific and technological development nowadays. In the face of the major concerns of international community, such as grain security, poverty reduction and food security, how to use “ wisdom” well to change the situation? This expo gather the wisdom of governments and enterprises of many countries to negotiate solutions.
Guide the market, and solve the problem. The development of global smart agriculture have broad prospects, large space and foreseeable future. In the practice of smart agriculture, countries are faced with some common problems, for example, agricultural equipment attaches importance to mechanization but neglect the digital technology, agricultural data collection is inadequate, and the transition of smart agricultural is weak. This expo shows application scenarios of smart agriculture of several countries to expand the market and solve the problem.
The content is rich and the combination is proper. This expo is rich in supporting facilities and multi exhibition in one where has both the “ lofty” smart agricultural expo and a high-end forum full of big names. Leaders of relevant ministries and commissions, minister of agriculture of ten ASEAN countries, representatives of international organizations such as Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in China, leaders of Shandong Province and Weifang City, and representatives of fortune global 500 all attended. Exhibitors from 22 countries are rich and representative.
With the construction of international exchange platform of smart expo, the exchange in smart agricultural area is deepening between China and countries and regions in the world, interjecting new momentum into global digital agriculture exchanges.