China News Service, Ningxia Pingluo, March 19th: Visiting the "Golden Milk Source Belt": "Cloud Technology" Behind a Cup of Milk
Chinanews reporter Yu Jing
What kind of "cloud technology" is in a glass of milk in people's daily life?
On March 19, the reporter walked into the Smart Ranch in Hongyazi Township, Pingluo County, Shizuishan City, Ningxia with questions. In the neat rows of cowsheds, intelligent applications are everywhere.
Intelligent equipment such as automatic access control equipment, electronic ear tags for dairy cows, automatic pedometers, fully automatic milking equipment, precision feeding systems, automatic temperature-sensing fans, automatic sensing sprays and high-definition video automatic monitoring equipment make the ranch full of technology. breath.
In the modern milking hall, cows enter in a queue without human supervision.
The workers methodically cleaned, sanitized, installed the milking equipment... Everything was ready, the milking machine was turned on, and the milky white milk flowed down the pipe into the milk tank.
"This turntable milking equipment can accommodate nearly a hundred cows to be milked at the same time, and the intelligent management system records the age, epidemic prevention, fertility, health, nutrition and other conditions of each cow. Record the latest status of the cows." The relevant person in charge of Ningxia Liken Animal Husbandry told reporters that a complete set of equipment has realized all links of automatic massage, automatic milking, automatic measurement, and automatic cup removal. Once abnormal milk is found, it will automatically alarm and avoid Crowded, the staff found the situation in time according to the alarm and dealt with it symptomatically.
The milk that has just been squeezed will be rapidly cooled and kept at the most suitable temperature, and sent to the factory for processing at the first time.
The employees in the central control room only need to move their fingers on the computer, and the fresh milk just collected from the pasture will be turned into pure milk, yogurt and other dairy products.
The relevant person in charge of Ningxia Liken Animal Husbandry introduced: "Each batch of milk will be tested in detail before it is shipped. The results show that our milk quality indicators are comparable to or even higher than the EU standards."
A smart dairy farm is like a modern, automated smart factory.
It used to take more than a dozen people a whole day to complete the work of raising and producing dairy cows, but now it can be done easily with a few pieces of equipment and a set of assembly lines and a few people in a few hours.
More importantly, the cows enjoy the whole feeding and milk production process.
In the milking hall of a dairy farming enterprise in Pingluo County, Shizuishan City, Ningxia, cows line up on a heavy-duty rotary milking machine.
Photo by Yu Jing
The handshake between the digital age and information management has promoted Ningxia, which is located in the internationally recognized "Golden Milk Source Belt", to become a leading "high-end milk" hometown.
The superior resource endowment and the boost of science and technology make the milk born in the south of the Yangtze River rank among the "first phalanx" of the world's dairy industry quality.
Many domestic leading dairy companies have regarded Ningxia as a high-end milk source and continued to increase investment in Ningxia.
At present, Ningxia dairy processing has initially formed a high-end dairy industry development pattern led by four leading enterprises, Yili, Mengniu, Guangming, and New Hope, and based on 12 Ning-brand enterprises such as Jinhe, Yimei, and Northern Dairy.
In the past two years, the output value of the entire industrial chain of Ningxia's dairy industry has increased by 68.5% to 61 billion yuan, achieving a new leap in high-end, high-quality and high-efficiency.
In 2021, the number of dairy cows in Ningxia will reach 702,000, 30 percentage points higher than the national average; the annual milk output is 2.8051 million tons, with a milk output value of 10.915 billion yuan; Ningxia will build 123 standardized dairy farms, with a total of 355. The proportion of chemical breeding has reached 99%, and the per capita raw milk share is 389 kilograms, ranking first in the country.
At the same time, the dairy industry is empowered by digitalization, and 3 dairy technology innovation (service) centers and 5 5G smart pastures have been established. rate reached 100%.
In the next five years, Ningxia will build 20 new (renovated) 5G farms to empower the high-quality development of the dairy industry with digitalization and intelligence.
At the same time, it will increase the promotion of the geographical brand of "Ningxia Golden Milk Source Belt", support the development of high-end dairy products, increase the added value of products, and transform the resource advantages of the dairy industry into product advantages and economic advantages.
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