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Soil Temperature: 24.3°C; PM2.5: 23μg/m?; Carbon Dioxide: 1890ppm... Yesterday morning, the real-time agricultural monitoring screen at the Jiaochuan Village Service Center in Xinluwan Town, Suichang County, displayed live data from the seed production fields.

“In the past, we worked with our faces to the soil and our backs to the sky, needing to go into the fields to observe the growth of hybrid rice. Now, we can see everything clearly just by clicking a mouse. The ‘Agricultural Pole’ has been a great help, and the harvest gets better every year!” exclaimed Zhang Linfu, a major seed grower, standing in front of the large screen.

Jiaochuan Village is the core production area of the province’s largest hybrid indica rice seed production base and one of the province’s first pilot future villages. The “Agricultural Pole” that Zhang Linfu referred to, leveraging Alibaba Cloud IoT and digital technologies, allows farmers to no longer rely solely on weather but achieve precision farming through big data.

In the seed production fields of Jiaochuan Village, five approximately 4-meter-tall white poles stand along the ridges. At first glance, they look like ordinary utility poles, but a closer look reveals high-tech equipment such as air temperature and humidity sensors, PM2.5 sensors, and light sensors, all operating in conjunction with the “Smart Green Field Eco-Production” application system.

From the fields to the “cloud”, the “Agricultural Pole” dynamically monitors key indicators like temperature, humidity, light, soil conductivity, and pH value, enabling real-time perception of rice seed growth, early warning of agricultural disasters, insight into farming activities, and continuous monitoring of land health.

Xu Shengkai, a seed technology promoter at the Suichang County Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau, said, “Last year, the ‘Agricultural Pole’ collected 3.32 million key indicator data points, delivered over 3,300 rational and safe pesticide usage alerts, effectively guiding farmers to timely agricultural interventions and enhancing the full-cycle, full-region smart management from seedling to maturity.”

In Shilian Town, a key hub for hybrid rice seed production, there is also a digital seed production field. The local area employs IoT management and analytical applications tailored to the specific needs of rice cultivation, installing over 110 terminal sensors across nine categories, including AI growth monitors, pest monitors, soil moisture monitors, and disease monitors, while integrating external meteorological data.

“AI automatically highlights pest and disease hotspots in red on the screen, precisely locating affected plants. Previously, manually inspecting 100 mu of land took at least 3–5 days, but now the smart control system completes it in 10 minutes with real-time monitoring,” said Lei Wenjun, a seed production instructor in Liucun Village. He added that the platform, combined with backend model algorithms, offers precise warning services, allowing farm managers and growers to conveniently check data on their mobile devices.

A single quality seed carries immense weight. Seeds are the “core” of agriculture and the cornerstone of national food security. As the province’s largest hybrid indica rice seed production base and a provincial-level seed multiplication base county, Suichang has over 50 years of seed production history and is one of the earliest regions in the province to develop hybrid rice seed production. The planting area and annual output of hybrid indica rice have ranked first in the province for 12 consecutive years.

With the widespread application of AI, data, and low-altitude technologies, Suichang’s seed production fields are showcasing “core” innovations, forming an integrated development model of “R&D + production + services” that transforms the strategy of “storing grain in technology” into tangible productivity gains. Last year, the county’s hybrid rice seed production area reached 21,600 mu, an increase of 9,600 mu from 2022, with an output of 2.4 million kg, a value of 120 million yuan, and an average income of about 5,000 yuan per mu, directly boosting the income of seed-producing farmers by over 30,000 yuan per person.

In the golden autumn season, the scenery is picturesque. Currently, during the heading, flowering, and grain-filling stage of hybrid indica rice—the “golden period” determining yield and quality—drones are seen hovering at low altitudes over the high-standard rice seed production base in Baixifan, Shilian Town, their rotors stirring strong air currents that shake the rice panicles and disperse pollen instantly.

In Suichang, scenes of drones being used for pollen dispersal are common. Recently, agricultural officials, technical experts, major seed producers, and enterprise representatives from across the province have been flocking to observe and learn advanced techniques such as drone-assisted pollination, mechanized transplanting of male parent plants, and fully automated seed production and processing.

Transitioning from the traditional model of “relying on weather and manual labor” to the modern approach of “precision control and smart efficiency”, Suichang’s seed production industry has forged a new path to ensuring food security through independent innovation in seed technology.

Wang Jie, director of the Crop Technology Promotion Center at the Suichang County Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau, outlined the benefits: in sowing, introducing simplified pot seedling throwing technology boosts efficiency 11-fold compared to traditional manual methods; in pollination, using tractors for pollen dispersal reduces labor needs from 30 people to just 3; in harvesting, advanced combines can harvest 5 mu per hour, equivalent to the work of two people over three days; in drying, modern drying equipment processes 30,000 kg of seeds per machine daily, cutting costs from 1.6 yuan/kg to 0.6 yuan/kg.

Across ten thousand mu of smart farmlands, “Suichang seeds” thrive robustly. The local government has established a modern seed research center, planning concentrated, contiguous areas for hybrid rice seed multiplication and production. Collaborating with research institutions like the China National Rice Research Institute and the Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, they tackle key hybrid rice seed production technologies, ensuring seed quality at the source. The county's hybrid rice seed production fields achieve 100% coverage of quality seeds.

“Zhejiang Rice Seeds, Suichang Crafted.” Yin Shefei, a senior agronomist at the Suichang County Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau, stated that conducting demonstration planting for parent line multiplication, new variety trials, and resistance identification helps cultivate and promote high-quality hybrid rice varieties. The “China-Zhejiang High-Yield” and “China-Zhejiang Premium” series are renowned in the industry for their wide adaptability and high yield, having been cultivated cumulatively on over 100 million mu nationwide, becoming true “star” quality seeds.