In the 20th century, mechanization and transgene were used to achieve a substantial increase in yield per mu. However, after entering 2 1 century, it is more and more difficult to improve the yield per mu. According to the estimation of FAO, by 2050, the global arable land can only increase by 4%, but it needs to support nearly 30% population growth. A new round of agricultural revolution is imminent.
Compared with traditional agriculture, through the deep integration of information technology and traditional agriculture, smart agriculture can help agricultural producers to increase the yield per mu of land, stabilize product quality, reduce production costs, save natural resources and reduce environmental pollution. Especially in the past three years, with the improvement of sensor accuracy and the rapid development of big data, machine vision, machine learning and other fields, the time has come for the commercialization of smart agriculture, and industry leaders and VC are actively investing. According to the analysis of CICC's smart agriculture industry research report, it is estimated that by 2020, the market space that smart agriculture can reach will exceed 80 billion US dollars.
From the field, smart agriculture mainly covers: precision agriculture, robots, drones, new farms, biological agriculture and many other aspects. Among them, "precision agriculture" has always been the focus of Huiyun information. "Precision agriculture" mainly refers to: combining the real-time data of crops, soil and livestock collected by sensors and other hardware with environmental data such as weather, temperature and humidity, and processing the data with analysis software to provide better decision-making suggestions for agricultural users, thus achieving a series of purposes such as saving resources, increasing yield and reducing risks. Specific applications include precision planting, precision irrigation, precision fertilization and precision pesticide spraying. This part has the largest market and the most mature commercialization in smart agriculture. According to the data of MarketsAndMarkets, by 2022, the accessible market space of precision agriculture will exceed $20 billion.