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Recently, Jiangsu Three&three's unmanned grain production farm project in Jinsha Street, Tongzhou District, Nantong City has become the focus of media attention such as Xinhua Daily and Intersection News.

Unmanned Grain Production Farm in Jinsha Street, Tongzhou District

Jiangsu Three&three focuses on the characteristics of planting rice and wheat in the core area of Jinsha Unmanned Farm in Tongzhou District, Nantong City. By integrating advanced digital agriculture technology, they have established a digital agriculture technology system for field planting based on the development model of "digital brain+unmanned farm". They aim to create a fully scenario unmanned farm for grain production with intelligent agricultural machinery as the core, relying on the comprehensive management big data platform of the farm, reliable perception, comprehensive interconnection, and digital intelligent regulation. They aim to build a leading digital unmanned farm demonstration model in the province with high standards for unmanned intelligence and integration of agricultural machinery and agronomy.

As a national level specialized and innovative "little giant" enterprise, Jiangsu Three&three focuses on full chain digital services and uses cutting-edge technologies such as the Internet of Things, big data, and artificial intelligence to promote the transformation of traditional agriculture towards intelligence and precision, injecting new momentum into the high-quality development of agriculture. The Jiangsu Three&three unmanned farm model is not an isolated technological stack, but a closed-loop management of the entire production, logistics, and sales chain through a "digital brain".

The practice of Jiangsu Three&three in the unmanned farm project in Jinsha Street, Tongzhou District, Nantong City is a vivid epitome of the transformation of smart agriculture from "demonstration exploration" to "universal application". Through technological empowerment, model innovation, and industrial synergy, Jiangsu Three&three not only solves the pain points of traditional agriculture's high dependence on human resources, waste of resources, and extensive management, but also provides a new path for ensuring food security and promoting sustainable agricultural development through data-driven precision agriculture.

In the future, Jiangsu Three&three will take Nantong Tongzhou Unmanned Farm as a benchmark, focusing on the three directions of "unmanned, automated, and intelligent", continuously deepening technological iteration, promoting more high standard farmland intelligent transformation, assisting in the implementation of rural revitalization strategy, and contributing the "Chinese solution" to the global development of smart agriculture.

The original text originates from Xinhua Daily:

Equipped with a 'smart brain', control over thousands of acres of grain fields

Mangzhong is busy planting, transitioning from wheat to rice and entering the critical stage of "three summers". However, it is difficult to find farmers in the thousands of acres of grain fields in Gangbei Village, Jinsha Street, Tongzhou District, Nantong City.

Start up, plant! "On the morning of June 6th, as the roar of two Kubota rice transplanters' motors echoed simultaneously, this slightly quiet high-yielding grain and oil area also" ignited "in recent days.

Not all fields have any movement, most are still soaking in water - the reporter noticed that except for the fields that need to be transplanted that day, the rest are basically soaked in water. The fields are 'conserving water', "agricultural technician Huang Jian told reporters. Suppressing weed growth is the top priority before rice transplanting. This "water retention" process, which includes burying, breaking, pulping, plowing, and sealing, directly affects the survival rate of seedlings and the subsequent use of pesticides and fertilizers.

Three to five hundred meters away, in the control center of the 10000 acre grain field smart farm, Zhang Jie, the secretary of the Gangbei Village Party Branch, is standing in front of a 5-meter-long and 3-meter-high screen, observing the operation of the rice transplanter through real-time footage. To build a smart farm in Gangbei Village, Jinsha Street invested 4.75 million yuan and installed a "smart brain" on 10000 acres of grain fields in June last year.

Farming requires a 'brain', everything is under control. The large screen displays a total of 9588 acres of grain fields, including approximately 7248 acres of high-yield grain and oil areas, divided into 141 regions; It can display satellite remote sensing images, as well as locate each field and display specific data; There are also meteorological information such as air temperature, humidity, wind speed, light intensity, rainfall, and inhalable particulate matter content for reference.

By remotely operating on the control center screen and entering the field number, the unmanned rice transplanter can automatically plan its travel route to complete the operation according to the instructions. Huang Jian introduced that "autonomous driving" saves labor and has a more scientific route planning, making the transplanting process smoother and more efficient. The arrangement of seedlings is more even, which helps to further improve crop survival rates.

Relying on various intelligent agricultural machinery and equipment, our province has invested a total of 872 million yuan to build 283 unmanned farms, ranking among the top in the country in terms of quantity. In 2024, 3643 intelligent agricultural machinery completed 3.3492 million acres of unmanned operations. In the main links of grain production, cultivation, management, and harvesting in the province, unmanned agricultural machinery operation saves costs of about 300 yuan/mu, increases production by about 50 pounds/mu, and reduces medicine by about 5%.

During the conversation, the seedlings were almost planted on less than 5 acres of land. It is reported that with 200000 seedling trays (about 2400 per tray), 7200 acres of land, and 13 fully powered rice transplanters, they can all be planted in about 10 days.

Efficiency is not the biggest selling point. Wu Jiajun, the developer of the Jinsha Street Smart Farm Management System and the project leader of Jiangsu Three&Three Information Technology Co., Ltd., operated on the big screen and the drone remote sensing monitoring situation during this year's wheat planting period popped up: D7-5 plot, with an area of 65.75 acres and a predicted yield of 470.52 kilograms per acre, the growth is average, and it is recommended to apply fertilizer and adjust soil moisture.

141 plots are marked with green, blue, orange, red and other colored lines according to their growth status, corresponding to vigorous growth, good growth, moderate growth, and poor growth respectively. Such a large area is difficult for the naked eye to see in detail, "Zhang Jie explained." Satellite remote sensing+drone aerial photography "can accurately capture the" palm sized "area in the field. From February to April this year, the Smart Farm Control Center dispatched drones three times to capture multispectral images. For areas that are too dense, have poor momentum, lack fertility, or breed pests, the "Smart Brain" can "see them at a glance" and provide corresponding field management plans.

Whether it's daily management or busy farming seasons, AI has become a great helper for farming. In recent years, Tongzhou District has been committed to promoting intelligent agricultural machinery and applying intelligent green technologies. In 2020, it established the first unmanned agricultural machinery demonstration base in the province. Currently, it has built a smart agriculture big data cloud platform and 16 provincial and municipal unmanned farms, with over 300 sets of various intelligent machinery, basically realizing unmanned operation throughout the entire process of farmland, sowing, plant protection, and harvesting.