Many agricultural research science and technology competitions set sail again, and the "sea of stars" of agriculture is hidden in science and technology.

With the tide of digitalization and artificial intelligence sweeping, all walks of life are gearing up, driving automation and human-computer interaction, the future world picture in Black Mirror seems to be gradually becoming a reality.

And the vast land that is closely connected with us is full of fruits all the year round. At the moment when the world is looking at the stars and the sea, who will help every inch of the country to take advantage of the east wind of science and technology?

On August 9th, Pinduoduo, China Agricultural University and Zhejiang University jointly announced that the second "Duoduo Agricultural Research Science and Technology Competition" was officially launched.

In the fields, the power of science and technology is being released quietly.

Wang Zhen, an agronomist in Yuan Dynasty, once said, "When you talk about farmers' cultivation, you should first sharpen their tools."

Thanks to the vigorous development of the Internet, relevant data show that the national rural online retail sales in 22 has reached 1.79 trillion yuan, up 8.9% year-on-year. With the continuous integration of sales links and efficiency iteration, the whole agricultural industry is now moving towards the deep-water area of technology and digital empowerment.

In this evolutionary path, e-commerce platform has become an important force to help farmers. Through online shopping, the boundaries of agricultural products can be broken. For northern provinces, tropical fruits can be sold directly and reach consumers at low prices. The "business experience" of local farmers is also constantly expanding in such a border refresh.

Practical experience tells us that the prosperity of agriculture is related to the prosperity of the country. Up to now, it is still a protracted war for the e-commerce platform to make farmers gain something from farming and match their work, whether from output to category or from channels to supply chain: if you want to do a good job in agriculture, you can't do without the enthusiasm of taking root in the countryside, but more importantly, you should follow the methodology of the times.

In this protracted war to help agriculture, the first force point of e-commerce platforms is "channel to help agriculture", that is, by improving the supply chain, to achieve a benign progress of sales links.

The traditional supply chain of agricultural products is often complicated, scattered and fragmented to some extent, and it is pushed to the market layer by layer, which is not friendly to the upstream farmers. How does the e-commerce platform solve this problem?

Pinduoduo, who is rooted in the countryside, gave the answer: the origin is straight, and through the drastic integration of the supply chain, the "field" is directly connected to the "dining table", which provides benefits for the source farmers.

But this puts forward a test for the logistics system of the whole platform.

"In 22, more than one third of China's daily average parcel volume will come from Pinduoduo", said Chen Lei, chairman of Pinduoduo. The logistics system is very important for e-commerce, especially the logistics of fresh agricultural products, which has certain particularity. Thanks to Unicom, the hub of Pinduoduo Super E-commerce Platform, the logistics "scale effect" of agricultural products in Pinduoduo has been highlighted.

Under such "scale effect", the marginal cost is decreasing, and today's Pinduoduo logistics system is iterating towards "governance orientation". That is to say, through deepening and optimizing the whole logistics chain, we can get through the closed loop of large-scale reconstruction of agricultural product supply chain.

Chen Lei once said at the 4th Digital China Construction Summit, "In the past six years, Pinduoduo has created a' farmland cloud spell' model through technologies such as big data, cloud computing and distributed artificial intelligence, which has combined scattered agricultural production capacity and scattered demand for agricultural products in the" cloud ",making once-hard-to-sell agricultural products a' fragrant cake' on people's tables and enriching consumers'' food baskets'.

By 22, Pinduoduo Platform has connected more than 12 million farmers with consumers. It can be seen that Pinduoduo's achievements in "helping agriculture through channels" have been revealed.

Streamlining the supply chain is undoubtedly a "booster" for improving farmers' enthusiasm. And how to break the bottleneck and further promote the pace of helping agriculture? The answer given by Pinduoduo is that the core of "science and technology to help agriculture" is still in the land of origin.

In fact, on this journey of "science and technology helping agriculture", it has already been undercurrent. According to relevant reports, Israel has established 46 agricultural science and technology companies, which are devoted to technology research and development in agricultural irrigation and other fields. In New Zealand, an island country far away in the southern hemisphere, the world-famous kiwifruit industry will reach a record $2.7 billion in exports in 22. Behind this, it is its highly developed agricultural science and technology support.

Together with agriculture, science and technology can also create a fairly wide track. More importantly, it is a game with no end. As long as science and technology continue to develop, the cause of empowering agriculture will continue.

It is a protracted war to enhance the added value of agricultural products, and it is also the core of "science and technology to help agriculture". Returning to China, the Duoduo Agricultural Research Science and Technology Competition held again in Pinduoduo is just such a breakthrough.

Open the closed loop of the through train to help farmers, and the "last mile" is the "cost reduction and efficiency increase" of agricultural products.

The essence of helping farmers is to make farmers keep up with the times, and the whole link benefits from the blessing of new technologies. Reflected in the practical level, that is, not only to help farmers "sell" their agricultural products, but also to help farmers "raise" their output.

In order to achieve this goal of helping agriculture, with the blessing of scientific and technological strength, we are faced with many scientific research directions and challenges, and together * * * has formed an infinite game of "agriculture" and "science and technology". The core of this game is to improve the value of land, which is often one of the most intuitive manifestations of agricultural science and technology content.

In last year's Duoduo Agricultural Research Science and Technology Competition, there was a big battle between "AI planting strawberries" and "Top farmers planting strawberries". In the end, the average yield of the former was 196.32% higher than that of the top farmers. It is a very valuable experience for the whole strawberry planting industry to achieve such results in the contest. At the same time, it also shows the importance of holding the Agricultural Research Science and Technology Competition in Pinduoduo to "help agriculture through science and technology".

Last summer, Ruan Jiwei, a researcher from Yunnan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and his team provided all-round agricultural management services for the teams, and measured the sweetness and hardness of strawberries of each team.

On the one hand, thanks to the native genes of Pinduoduo Platform, it provides the most direct and accurate stage for farmers and scientific research teams around us. The upstream achievements of the team are fed back to the farmers themselves, and with the help of the supply chain in the middle reaches of the platform, the full-link empowerment can be achieved quickly, making up for the lack of upstream motivation in helping agriculture.

On the other hand, thanks to the incentive mechanism of the competition, the total prize pool of the second Pinduoduo Agricultural Research Science and Technology Competition exceeded RMB 1 million, which will be used to support the winning teams. This financial support will undoubtedly attract more agricultural research teams to participate and further promote the evergreen of the competition.

However, the competition is not the ultimate goal, and it is fundamental to build a new era of science and technology incubator.

The introduction of science and technology into the fields has always been a matter of returning to the basics. For the agricultural research team, at the moment when science and technology are multi-industry-oriented, the agriculture rooted in the field is limited by channels and resources, and it is difficult for the research team to let the results fall by their enthusiasm.

It is with the emergence of the Duoduo Agricultural Research Science and Technology Competition that such teams have brought more and more achievements in our field of vision.

Zhiduo Berry Company from Yunnan won the second prize in the first "Duoduo Agricultural Research Science and Technology Competition".

Committed to the research of neural network algorithm, image recognition and other technologies, Zhiduo Berry Company combined with the experience of experts from the Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and exported a set of digital strawberry planting scheme. In the competition time of more than 12 days, the output has far exceeded that of the top farmers.

And how is this achievement rewarded in value? The importance of "Duoduo Agricultural Research Science and Technology Competition" is highlighted.

Since November last year, Cheng Biao, the head of Zhiduoberry Company, and his team started the first commercial project "Community Growers Support Program" in Gulian Village, Yunnan Province. Thanks to the results of the competition, Lao Zhang, a local strawberry grower, chose to be the first user of Zhiduoberry Company and connected his own 2 mu of strawberries to this workstation.

Time flies. By the end of the May Day planting season this year, the local villager Lao Zhang calculated the account, and each strawberry paid .3 yuan a service fee for one year. After one planting season, the service fee was less than 2, yuan, which really brought about that his 2 mu strawberry fields earned 3, yuan more than last year, and also saved nearly 4, yuan in fertilizer costs.

"The reality of earning money last year and the desire to continue earning money this year are the motivation for growers to continue to invest." Cheng Biao said in an interview that the key to technology is to make farmers recognize and benefit from it, which is the initial intention of the first agricultural research competition and the most important thing for agricultural science and technology practitioners.

It is the purpose of Pinduoduo's trip to help farmers recover their resources to help agricultural research teams stand out and further benefit farmers. This year's second "Duoduo Agricultural Research Science and Technology Competition" has been officially launched. Different from the last strawberry planting competition, this competition will put forward a new test for the participating teams: it will take six months to grow tomatoes with high yield and high nutritional value.

From strawberries to tomatoes, from promoting agricultural scientific research to feeding back farmers, we can see that there has always been change and unchanging in the war to help farmers in Pinduoduo.

What has changed is the help of multi-category and multi-technical teams. Pinduoduo's multi-category agricultural products assistance plan, in addition to a record high output of strawberries and tomatoes, Pinduoduo has also repeatedly created category explosions. For example, Xinjiang small white apricot, which we have never heard of before, has been meeting us in the form of dried fruit for many years, subject to transportation and supply chain. Pinduoduo encourages new farmers to return to their hometowns to start businesses with the advantage of the platform, and a truckload of fresh small white apricots can reach our dining table directly.

In terms of technical team, outstanding people in the field of scientific research are constantly entering the market, so that research achievements can be brought into full play to the greatest extent and the progress of agricultural science and technology can be promoted.

What remains unchanged is that the road to helping agriculture is long and arduous, and Pinduoduo is committed to keeping agriculture up to date. From the supply chain and sales, follow the endless stream of new ways of playing, from the research and development of agricultural products, keep the basic disk of science and technology, so as to keep the word agriculture fresh forever and keep the vitality of the new generation injected forever.

Look at the starry sky with the power of science and technology, inspiring and blending beautifully. And Pinduoduo is leading the power of science and technology to the field ridge, where it is also a sea of stars.