Cengong, Guizhou: multifunctional Internet of things intelligent greenhouse improves agricultural qu

Nowadays, saffron, located in Zhuba village, Yangqiao Tujia Township, cengong County, Guizhou Province, has ushered in the peak harvest season.

Purple flower buds reveal bright red filaments, which grow very gratifying. The villagers are busy picking, extracting flower hearts and baking... A busy scene. "We come here to work. We have more than 100 yuan a day. This kind of work is easier and we can take care of the elderly and children at home." Yao Youzhen, a villager of Yangliu village, Yangqiao Tujia Township, said happily. Crocus sativus, also known as saffron, is a precious medicinal material known as "red gold". It is dried with three red filaments in the flower. It has high medicinal value and broad market prospect. In recent years, Yangqiao Tujia township of cengong county has also applied for a cooperation fund of more than 5 million yuan between the East and the west to introduce a fully automatic multi-functional Internet of things intelligent greenhouse control system. Wu Fei, the person in charge of the base, said: "this system can make the greenhouse run in an economic and energy-saving state, realize the unattended automatic operation of the greenhouse, reduce the energy consumption and cost of the greenhouse, provide an ideal growth environment for plants, reduce human labor intensity, improve the greenhouse climate, reduce diseases and pests, and increase crop yield." At the same time, it can also push real-time monitoring information and alarm information to managers through mobile app, computer and other information terminals, so as to realize greenhouse information and intelligent remote management, which is most suitable for crop growth, realize fine management, create conditions for high yield, high quality, high efficiency, ecology and safety of crops, help improve efficiency, reduce costs and increase income. Since 2018, cengong county has fully relied on the East-West cooperation platform and took the opportunity of counterpart assistance from Hangzhou Jiande City to establish cengong County Zhufa saffron farmers' professional cooperative, adopting the mode of "branch + cooperative + base + farmers" to vigorously develop the order planting of saffron. "There's no need to worry about the sales market. We signed an order sales contract with the company in Sandu Town, Jiande City, with a minimum sales of 20000 yuan per kilogram. At the same time, we also sold online and offline, with an income of about 450000 yuan this year." Wu Fei, head of Zhufa saffron farmers' Professional Cooperative in cengong County, said. The introduction of industry has not only revitalized the idle land and turned the idle land into a money field, but also benefited the surrounding villagers in the form of self planting, equity dividends and increasing the income of migrant workers, gradually summoned up "money bags" and embarked on the road to prosperity. "Now saffron has become a star industry in our village. It needs about 50 employees every day. There is a labor fee of 10 yuan an hour, which is paid on time. The people can have income at home and have a high enthusiasm for participation." Cui Yuanping, first Secretary of Zhuba village, Yangqiao Tujia Township, said.

At present, we have built an indoor intelligent breeding center for saffron and built a whole industrial chain of saffron planting, harvesting and sales. In 2020, saffron industry will realize a total dividend of 588000 yuan, covering 3238 people in 1263 households in Yangqiao Township, and provide more than 200 jobs for local villagers. (Tang Peng, Yang Jun)