Recently, the final results of the "Third Global Agricultural Maker Competition" were officially announced.
It is reported that among the 98 applications from 25 countries and regions, 7 teams entered the finals. After fierce competition, the intelligent agricultural robot project from the Hi, Mr. N! team from Zhejiang, China, won the gold medal of this competition ; FSPN from Kenya, and the blockchain leek project from China won the silver award in the competition; Farmer Lifeline Technologies and AgroTech from Kenya, and the Guoxin blockchain agricultural ecological cycle industrial park project from China won the bronze award.
The "Global Agricultural Maker Competition" aims to establish a platform for young agricultural entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs to integrate multiple resources, to promote a global network including international organizations, government agencies, academic and research institutions, and enterprises, and to connect young people around the world Entrepreneurs connect with different stakeholders in the agri-food system and accelerate the transformation of agricultural systems by presenting their innovative solutions on the international stage, promoting the application of agtech.
The jury, participating teams, hosts and guests participating in the 3rd Global Agricultural Maker Competition
"Farm Maker Competition" Accelerates Transformation of Agri-Food System
The "Third Global Agricultural Maker Competition" attracted contestants from China, the United States, Germany, Nigeria, Kenya and other parts of the world to sign up for the competition, among which teams from developing countries such as Asia and Africa accounted for a large proportion.
Compared with the first competition focusing on digital agricultural technology innovation to solve the pain points of agricultural products, and the second competition focusing on helping digital rural construction to achieve "FAO's four betters", the "3rd Global Agricultural Maker Competition" focuses more on how to Accelerate the transformation of the agricultural food system to achieve the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals of "Eradication of Poverty", "Zero Hunger" and "Gender Equality".
He Lianzhen, vice president of Zhejiang University, said: "Tonight's final is a milestone for the 2022 Global Farm Maker Competition."
The Hi, Mr. N! team, which won the first place in the competition, showed a smart agricultural robot for precise detection and precise fertilization.
After nearly ten years of research, Professor He Yong of Zhejiang University, Associate Researcher Feng Xuping and their research team have created an intelligent agricultural robot (Hi, Mr.N) whose height and width can be automatically adjusted. Through spectral technology, it can accurately and quickly acquire According to the growth status of crops in different growth stages, a prescription map is formed according to the actual nitrogen demand of crops, so as to realize the precise management of fertilizers.
Crop nitrogen nutrient detection intelligent robot
He Yong said that accurate detection of crop nitrogen content is the key problem to be overcome. The team has built a wide adaptability model system for a variety of crops, which can save 20% to 30% of fertilizer use.
The above research results have been applied to various crops such as tea, strawberry, and cotton.
The Farmer Lifeline Technologies project from Kenya helps crop pest detection by establishing linkages between hardware and software.
The project uses solar-powered devices with camera scanners to generate analysis results based on artificial intelligence, data analysis and machine learning, and send alerts to farmers' mobile phones.
The AgroTech project, also from Kenya, provides small farmers with effective fresh-keeping services and a mobile application that connects farmers with food suppliers to help reduce food loss and waste and improve market and trade transparency.
The agricultural ecological cycle industrial park project from Changchun, China, focuses on organic planting.
Taking pollination as an example, the company uses bumblebees to biologically pollinate the vegetables in the greenhouse. Before the promotion of this technology, in order to save costs, farmers generally use hormone treatment and artificial pollination for the vegetables in the greenhouse.
The fruit produced by bumblebee pollination has better quality and higher market price.
The organic agricultural ecological cycle team landed in the planting base in the suburbs of Changchun
Li Yin, deputy general manager of Changchun Guoxin Modern Agricultural Science and Technology Development Co., Ltd., said that the company trains 8,000 to 10,000 farmers in the region every year. Participating in the Agricultural Maker Competition will help promote organic vegetable planting technology to the whole country.
Pinduoduo continues to increase agricultural technology
"Thanks to the close cooperation between international organizations, governments, universities and enterprises, the 'Global Agricultural Maker Competition' has been successfully held for three times, which has stimulated the interest and enthusiasm of young people around the world to invest in agricultural research and scientific innovation, and promoted a series of scientific research results. Application transformation.” said Wei Longbao, project team leader of the Global Agricultural Maker Competition, head of the Zhejiang University-FAO digital agriculture innovation and entrepreneurship team, and director of the Institute of Food Economics and Agricultural Business Management of Zhejiang University.
As an enterprise that provides all-round and continuous support for the Global Agricultural Maker Competition, Pinduoduo started with agricultural products, and through guiding and optimizing the supply chain of agricultural products, it helps the upward movement of agricultural products and rural revitalization.
Its innovative "agricultural land cloud consolidation" model, through the collective purchase model, gathers the demands that were originally extremely scattered in time and space into relatively concentrated orders, which not only greatly optimizes the intermediate transaction links, reduces sales costs, but also reduces It shortens the circulation time, helps agricultural products to open up markets, and helps farmers improve efficiency and increase income.
Pinduoduo insists on long-term investment in agriculture and agricultural research.
Since 2020, Pinduoduo has joined hands with top institutions such as China Agricultural University and Zhejiang University to hold three consecutive "Duoduo Agricultural Research Science and Technology Competitions", aiming at smart agricultural technology solutions and providing young researchers with a start-up platform to display their talents. Promote the integration of agricultural entities and digitalization.
In August 2021, Pinduoduo set up a special project of "10 billion agricultural research". This special project is not aimed at commercial value and profit, but is committed to promoting the progress of agricultural science and technology, with the goal of further empowering agricultural science and technology workers and laborers. .
At present, Pinduoduo has successively cooperated with domestic and foreign scientific research teams such as the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the Singapore Institute of Food and Biotechnology Innovation, and Zhejiang University to conduct in-depth research in the fields of scientific planting, agricultural robots, smart agriculture, and future food.
Pinduoduo is committed to helping the transformation of cutting-edge scientific and technological research into practical agricultural applications on the planting side.
In 2022, Pinduoduo will increase its resources for high-tech agricultural products, and use sales to feed scientific research. A large number of agricultural colleges and universities such as Shizhuang Oatmeal, Yanshu 25, Xida Konjac, Jingu No. 21 Millet, and Pleasant Chocolate have researched and developed High-tech agricultural products have become key support targets.