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Chapter 449 Terraced Fields and Terraced Field Robots
What restricts the regional agricultural development of the Loess Plateau is its special landform with thousands of ravines.

This landform has led to the popularity of the [terrace] agricultural planting method in this area.

【Terraced fields】are strip-shaped terraced or wave-shaped cross-section fields built along the contour line on hilly slopes. It is an effective measure to control soil and water loss in sloping farmland. It has significant effects on water storage, soil conservation, and production increase.

[Terraces] have better ventilation and light transmission conditions, which is conducive to crop growth and accumulation of nutrients.

According to the slope of the field, there are [horizontal terraced fields], [slope terraced fields], [reverse slope terraced fields], [multiple terraced fields], etc.

The width of the [Terrace] is determined by the slope of the ground, the thickness of the soil layer, the farming method, the amount of labor and economic conditions, and is planned in a unified manner with the irrigation and drainage system and traffic roads.

Terraces with high outside and low inside after horizontal step land preparation are called "reversed slope terraces".

[Anti-slope slope] The degree varies depending on the slope of the barren hill, generally 300-500,

The slope with narrow slope is larger, and vice versa.

The fields are 1.5-3 meters wide.The length depends on how broken the terrain is.

Both the outer slope and the inner slope of the ridge are 600.

Reversed slope terraces can improve site conditions, store water and preserve soil, and are suitable for drought and heavy soil erosion and flat slopes. They are also commonly used terraces on the Loess Plateau, but they are more labor-intensive to build.

Huaguo began to have [terraced fields] at least during the Qin and Han Dynasties.

Because the cultivation of rice requires a large area of ​​ponds, and the southeastern provinces of Huaguo have many hills and few plains suitable for rice cultivation.

In order to solve the food problem, the farmers who immigrated here built [terraced fields] and used dams to conserve water sources, making it possible to grow rice in a large area in the hilly area, and solved the local food problem.

However, the manpower consumption of [terraced fields] is much higher than that of the plains, and the yield has no advantage, and it seriously damages the vegetation in hilly areas, so this farming method is gradually eliminated, and only continues as a tourist resource. exist.

On the Loess Plateau, [terraced fields] is a must.

Whether it is in water storage and soil conservation or in solving the local food gap, it has an irreplaceable role.

But [Terraces] also has a problem, that is, it is very labor-intensive!

Although the state encourages and supports the construction of terraced fields in the Loess Plateau according to local conditions, it guides relevant provinces to include slope farmland plots that meet the project approval requirements into the scope of high-standard farmland construction, carry out comprehensive management and construction of slope farmland, prevent soil erosion, and use farmland resources efficiently. Improve the conditions of agricultural production in the Loess Plateau area, ensure national food security, and introduce various comprehensive governance and management mechanisms, in order to effectively improve the utilization efficiency of terraced fields, with a view to realizing the agricultural modernization of the Loess Plateau.

The effect is still there, but it is still far from the standard of success.

One of the important factors restricting the agricultural modernization of the Loess Plateau is that a series of agricultural machinery suitable for terraces with slopes greater than eight degrees have not yet been developed, so that agriculture cannot really develop.

Due to the unique terrain of the Loess Plateau, conventional agricultural machinery is useless here, which leads to the promotion of [terrace] agricultural mechanization has become an important link in accelerating the construction of a modern agricultural production system.

In the Loess Plateau area, it is necessary to develop a small, intelligent, multi-functional, combined agricultural machinery robot suitable for the whole process of mechanized operation of [terraced fields] and small fields of rice. , planting, harvesting.

This places high demands on the technology.

Not to mention other things, let’s just talk about the fruit picking robot. In the picking process, the biggest and most urgent problem that needs to be solved at present is the inaccurate real-time identification and positioning of fruits.

In addition, research on recognition and positioning based on machine vision technology has also fallen into a bottleneck.

Previously, research on recognition and positioning based on machine vision technology was the mainstream trend; however, after years of research and practice, this problem has not been solved well and has fallen into a bottleneck period.

But these problems are not a problem at all for [Chaoqun Group], or for Wu Siyuan.

In Wu Siyuan's [Shennongjiao Space], there are more than a dozen agricultural-type [Transformers] working diligently.

From them, you can get the most basic mechanical structure diagrams, and you can easily design adaptable agricultural machines or agricultural robots as long as the [Four-Armed King Kong] is slightly modified.

In order not to [shock the world], Wu Siyuan may have to let the [Four-Armed King Kong] weaken its performance.

This is the hardware side.

As for the software, that is, the algorithm, Wu Siyuan doesn't have to worry. Using the source code of [Four-Armed King Kong] as a blueprint, it is a breeze to develop an artificial intelligence dedicated to the agricultural industry that can continuously learn.

In fact, before Wu Siyuan decided to invest in the Loess Plateau, the scientific research team of [Chaoqun Group] had produced (cheated) mature terraced field robots and applied for hundreds of patents for this.

【Chaoqun Group】Through technical authorization, it customizes parts in various industry-related companies across the country, and finally assembles them in domestic OEM companies to form a robot industry chain similar to the [Apple Industry Chain].

Unlike the [Apple Industry Chain] that threatens to transfer out at every turn, the robot industry chain led by [Super Group] can meet more than [-]% of the national production standards. Don’t worry about being like [Huawei], because When it grows stronger, it is sanctioned by others and threatens to cut off the supply of core chips.

[Superior Group] immediately ordered 100 million parts of the [Terrace Robot], and sent them to the OEM factory for unified assembly, and finally shipped them to various regions of the Loess Plateau according to demand.

[Terrace Robot] Of course, the cost is high, and it is not affordable for ordinary farmers.

Therefore, [Chaoqun Group] will establish a [Special Agricultural Machinery Production Leasing Company] in various parts of the Loess Plateau, and follow the development model of [Leading Enterprise + Cooperative + Farmer] to replicate the past successful experience of [Chaoqun Group] in various places on the Loess Plateau. With the assistance and supervision of the government, an agricultural cooperative with a village or multiple villages as the basic unit is established, and the strength of the farmers in the agricultural cooperative is gathered to lease special agricultural robots from the [Special Agricultural Machinery Production Leasing Company] of the [Chaoqun Group] .

These agricultural robots with multiple important intellectual property rights of [Chaoqun Group] can realize the mechanized operation of crops in the whole process under complex geological conditions for typical scenarios such as [terraced fields] with large elevation difference and long and narrow [terraced fields] on the Loess Plateau. Plowing, planting, and harvesting are mechanized as one, and you can walk into the field to work by yourself, and you only need to operate on your mobile phone or computer.

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