How Japan and the Netherlands Let Internet Agriculture

Japan

there are two major problems in Japanese agriculture. First, Japan does not have enough arable land, and the per capita arable land is even less. The second major problem in Japan is the aging of the population. At present, the average age of the agricultural employment population in Japan is 67 years old, which is jokingly called "agriculture for the elderly" by the local media ". And Japan is working to use the Internet to further improve the efficiency of agriculture, which the Japanese call the "green digital revolution".

For producers, planting technology and knowledge determine the production efficiency of the core production factor "people. Japan is using the Internet to realize the data of planting technology and knowledge, so that these valuable experiences can be continuously inherited by the next generation of farmers and agricultural enterprises.

Meteorological data and crop production data are collected through height sensors and sent to farmers or managers in real time so that they can irrigate and fertilize reasonably. Real-time recording of consumers' consumption of agricultural products through the Internet facilitates producers to cater to the market and adjust their planting plans in the shortest time, so as to avoid unsalable sales caused by information asymmetry. Using the global positioning system, unmanned tractors conduct 24-hour farming on large-scale farms.

Japan is a big country in science and technology, and Japan has been committed to the development of intelligent agriculture. The development of agricultural science and technology with lower labor costs is Japan's national strategy. Nowadays, wearable micro-machines are the key research direction in Japan. They can assist producers in picking, harvesting and other work, even weeding and packaging.

Netherlands

the Netherlands is a small country in Europe, but it is the second largest agricultural exporter after the United States, with annual net exports of US $more than 30 billion. In fact, there are many similarities between the innate conditions of Dutch agriculture and Chinese agriculture, but the Netherlands has embarked on a path of efficient agriculture, how does the Netherlands do it? Can China replicate it?

People often use the term "small country, big business" to describe the economic characteristics of the Netherlands. The Netherlands has a local area of only more than 40000 square kilometers, but its agricultural and animal husbandry products are famous for their high quality and high yield. The export volume of flowers and seeds has ranked first in the world for many years.

The Netherlands has a long winter, and there are many unfavorable factors in the development of agriculture and animal husbandry. However, the hard work and intelligence of the Dutch to a large extent to make up for the "congenital deficiency". The hard-working Dutch know how to make the most of their limited land and put an ecological label on agriculture through innovation. The greenhouse construction area of the Netherlands is about 0.11 billion square meters, accounting for 1/4 of the world's glass greenhouse area. It is mainly used for planting flowers and vegetables, with an annual output value of up to 1.2 billion US dollars. It is one of the important economic pillars of the Netherlands.

The remarkable characteristics of Dutch agriculture are high input and high output, that is, to achieve high efficiency through capital-intensive advanced technology, all of which need the strong support of advanced agricultural science and technology.

The Netherlands attaches great importance to the development of science and technology. The national education and research funds account for 19.1 per cent of the total national budget, much higher than other departments, and agricultural scientific research is an important field. Government spending on agricultural research and development reached $0.411 billion billion in 2008, significantly higher than in large European countries such as the UK. In addition, the "trinity" of agricultural scientific research, extension and education in the Netherlands is under the unified responsibility of the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food quality, which effectively integrates resources and facilitates the development of agricultural science and technology.

2015-12-11 Source: Shanxi Farmers Daily