Chapter 610 [Bringing agriculture into the digital and information age]
Wednesday, August 22nd.
One of the teams from Qunxing Capital flew to Northwest Agricultural University for investigation and inspection.
The University of Agriculture and Forestry received the news and attached great importance to it. A super-large funder came to investigate. If it can be recognized by Qunxing Capital for cooperation, not only will the school itself receive financial support, but also after the project is established and carried out, it will definitely be able to
Promote the employment of school graduates.
The employment rate of college graduates is a very important assessment indicator for the school. Once it cooperates with Qunxing Capital, the relevant institutions will definitely need professional talents.
Around 10 a.m., there was an indoor cultivation site on campus.
At this moment, the research team of Stars Capital, led by school personnel, is visiting the school's "soilless cultivation" experiment. This is a method of cultivating plants without using natural soil but using other things containing essential elements for plant growth and development, so that the plants
Cultivation technology that normally completes the entire life cycle.
Soilless culture can grow vegetables, flowers, fruits, tobacco leaves and other agricultural products.
"...We are currently conducting research on more than ten soilless cultivation models in the field of 'soilless cultivation', including wall cultivation, pipe cultivation, column cultivation, A-frame cultivation, aerosol cultivation, etc." The school said.
A director of staff introduced the person in charge of the Qunxing Capital research team while walking.
After a while, they came to a wall with PVC pipes and some vegetation planted on it.
"This is wall cultivation, a cultivation mode that uses a combination of PVC pipes on the wall. A substrate is placed inside the PVC pipes for crop growth. This cultivation mode can be used as a partition wall and also beautifies the wall."
The person in charge of the school's project continued: "Water is used as the main carrier for crop growth, and nutrient solution is used to provide the nutrients needed for crop growth. According to the experimental report, the cultivation facilities of this model are closed and insulated.
It has good properties, and its pure hydroponic culture is very suitable for picking and eating directly on site.”
After visiting for a while, the school staff took people from Stars Capital to visit the next experimental project and introduced: "This is pipeline cultivation, a new type of hydroponic facility for soilless cultivation. It can be three-dimensional, tiled, etc."
In terms of structure, the experimental goal is to mainly grow leafy vegetables. The vegetables produced by this cultivation mode are clean and pollution-free, and can be picked and eaten directly."
Next, Qunxing Capital accompanied the school staff to visit several other soilless cultivation models. The project leaders at the school also took turns to introduce them to them. When they arrived at the experimental site of a project, there was a person in charge of the project.
introduce.
"This is column-type cultivation. Multiple cultivation troughs similar to flower pots are installed on the columns, and substrates are placed inside for cultivation. In column-type cultivation, pollution-free strawberries can be mainly grown. After the strawberries bear fruit, they are distributed around the cultivation troughs, and picking is easy.
It’s very convenient and can be eaten directly.”
"We have A-frame cultivation here. Its structure is divided into A-shapes, which is conducive to the lighting of crops and greatly facilitates the daily operations of staff. The A-frame cultivation structure is flexible and can be reasonably matched according to different needs.
Vegetables suitable for cultivation include lettuce, lettuce, rapeseed, strawberries, fungus, coriander, etc.
"We are engaged in aerosol cultivation. In this mode, water mixed with nutrient solution is atomized under high pressure and then sprayed directly onto the root system of the crop. The root system of the crop is directly suspended in the space of the cultivation container and contacts the mist through the root.
to meet the conditions required for growth.”
It took about an hour for the school staff to introduce to Stars Capital the research projects on all 13 soilless cultivation models currently being carried out in the school.
The content disclosed by Qunxing Capital this time has determined the company's development investment direction in the field of modern agricultural technology. The soilless cultivation model is also the company's key investment direction, so a team came to this university for investigation and inspection.
The composition of the nutrient solution in soilless culture is easy to control and can be adjusted at any time. It can be carried out in places where the light and temperature are suitable but there is no soil, such as deserts, beaches, desert islands, etc., as long as there is a certain supply of fresh water.
At about 17:00 that afternoon, Qunxing Capital reached a cooperation agreement with Northwest Agricultural University to conduct larger-scale experiments on these 13 soilless cultivation projects. Qunxing Capital plans to invest a total of 150 million yuan for these 13 projects.
The project provides financial support, and the project with the least financial support is 10 million.
The donor is the donor, and his wealth remains as strong as ever.
Northwest Agricultural University is also extremely excited. The key is not the 150 million, but once these 13 soilless cultivation projects are confirmed to be able to move out of the laboratory, that will be the real focus.
If that model is feasible, Stars Capital will invest larger amounts of funds in the future to popularize it on a large scale and form a large-scale soilless cultivation industry.
This is absolutely exciting for the school. Not only will it become a major achievement for the school in the future, but the school's graduates will also be able to find jobs, thereby increasing the employment rate of college graduates.
In fact, for many people across the country who are engaged in the agricultural field, the entry of Star Capital into this field has received huge attention.
The first phase is an investment of 30 billion, which is likely to be another 100 billion-level strategic investment from Stars Capital. In other words, what Stars Capital recognizes is likely to be the most favored by funds in the agricultural field in the future and the most promising in the industry.
of.
For many college students, it will obviously greatly affect their choice of major.
Soilless cultivation mode is just one of them.
In addition, "smart greenhouse" and "precision agriculture" are two new modern agricultural planting models based on high technology that Star Capital has really vigorously promoted.
Smart greenhouse is a modern agricultural model that uses engineering technology to change natural light and temperature conditions, create environmental factors that optimize the growth of animals and plants, and carry out efficient production of animals and plants under relatively controllable environmental conditions.
According to experimental data from some universities or scientific research institutions, this cultivation method has a yield 3.5 times that of open-air cultivation.
This kind of smart greenhouse cultivation needs to be equipped with automatic facilities such as computer-controlled skylights, sunshade systems, insulation systems, heating systems, wet curtains, sprinkler drip irrigation systems or drip irrigation systems, mobile seedbeds, etc., thereby providing an agricultural "smart" greenhouse.
Another major model is precision agriculture, which is also supported by digital information technology and implements a complete set of modern agricultural operation technology and management systems based on spatial variation, positioning, timing and quantitative implementation.
According to the soil properties of crop growth, adjust the input to crops, that is, on the one hand, we can find out the spatial variation of soil properties and productivity within the field, on the other hand, we can determine the production goals of crops, carry out positioning system diagnosis, optimize formulas, technical assembly, scientific
Management, mobilizing soil productivity, carefully calculating the amount of fertilizers, water, pesticides, etc. needed for crops, using the least amount of goods and the most economical inputs to achieve the same or higher income.
At the same time, it is also very conducive to environmental protection, efficient use of various agricultural resources, and economic and environmental benefits.
The model of precision agriculture is obviously moving towards intensive management, using modern technology to make the usage of various raw materials very accurate. Operations can be carried out continuously like industrial processes, thereby achieving large-scale operations.
Domestic agriculture is also in the midst of a big industry, a big market, and a big development industry. It is obvious that Qunxing Capital's large-scale entry into the agricultural field is to bring agriculture into the era of digitalization and informationization.
