China’s Automatic Agricultural Equipment and System Sales Increased By 213% YoY in 1H 2020
From January to June 2020, China sold more than 11,700 sets of automatic agricultural machinery and systems, a year-on-year increase of 213 percent.
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Volunteer Drone Teams Organize for COVID-19 Disinfection
Total disinfection coverage of DJI agricultural drones exceeds 600 million square meters across more than 1,000 villages.
New Large Aerial Image Database for Agricultural Pattern Analysis
AI systems are already helping farmers with soil analysis, planting, animal husbandry, water conservation and more.
How AI Is Modernizing Chinese Agriculture
In recent years frontier technologies such as AI, big data, IoT, and 3S technology (RS remote sensing technology, GIS geographic information systems, and GPS global positioning systems), have been aggressively deployed to accelerate the modernization of Chinese agriculture.
Alibaba AI Detects Pig Pregnancies
While previous pregnancy detection techniques relied heavily on human labour, Alibaba’s new “pregnancy diagnosis algorithms” can help. The AI system was developed by Alibaba Cloud engineers in a joint effort with pig farming scientists.
Will AI Save Japan’s Agricultural Sector?
To address the aging problem farmers are turning to “smart agriculture” labour-saving techniques and devices and large-scale production. Artificial intelligence is playing an important role in accelerating and improving the technologies driving Japan’s smart agriculture.
Mixtures of Lightweight Deep Convolutional Neural Networks: Application in Agricultural Robotics
Nowadays, the use of agricultural robots are steadily rising, like the AgBot II, which helps detect and classify weeds, and Harvey, used for detecting and segmenting crops.