Unmanned farms have moved from being a mere imagination or concept to becoming a reality. They are developing much faster than expected, with technology and practice being ahead of communication.
As a new model of future agriculture, unmanned farms are leading the "new track" in global agriculture, and it is highly likely that the main track of agricultural competition between countries will be unmanned in the future.
With the development of the Internet of Things, big data, artificial intelligence, and other new-generation information technologies, developed countries such as the United Kingdom, the United States, the Netherlands, Germany, and Japan have started building unmanned field farms and unmanned fishery farms one after another.
If the farm is a single crop planting, it needs the whole plowing, planting, management, harvesting, and even the whole mechanization of the initial processing and deep processing. At present, a globally scaled fully unmanned crop farm does not exist, but it is the direction of effort and goal.
If it is a multi-category planting or planting and raising combination or another more complex multi-ecological business model, it requires full mechanization, and full unmanned mechanization will be more difficult to achieve, but it is also a direction of effort.
Unmanned farms represent a new generation of information technologies such as the Internet of Things, big data, artificial intelligence, 5G, robotics, and more.
Without people entering the farm, through remote control of farm facilities, equipment, machinery, etc. or through intelligent equipment and robotics independent decision-making, independent operations, to complete all farm production and management tasks, it is a kind of all-weather, full-process, full-space unmanned production operation mode.
The essence of which is to realize machines for humans.
In developed countries, because the land is vast and sparse, large areas of farmland are planted, maintained, and harvested using modern machinery and equipment, such as aircraft spraying pesticides, mechanized harvesting, etc.
This greatly enhances production and efficiency, and the large-scale adoption of mechanized farm machinery for production is the hallmark of relatively modern farms.
From a technical point of view, experiments of unmanned farms have been tried on a small scale in various countries, but small-scale experiments and formal operation are two different things.
To put unmanned farms into formal operation, the technologies involved are extremely complex and require the integration of sensing, precision navigation, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, big data, and so on.
In the case of changing forms, unmanned farms are better able to play their absolute advantages to ensure that in the event of a major disaster epidemic, the layout of unmanned farm technology research and development, model integration, business mechanisms, and support policies from now on is of great significance to accelerate the development of modern agriculture.
Unmanned farms are a complete liberation of agricultural labor, representing the most advanced agricultural productivity. They will substantially improve agricultural productivity, resource utilization, and land output rate, ensure the quality of agricultural products and the green development of agriculture.
They are the future direction of the development of agriculture, which will definitely lead to the development of modern agriculture.
