Guangdong: Master of Taste and Tillage

Do you think farm tools are still hoes and sickles? Do you think farming still means bending your back in the fields? Do you think fishermen are still out there struggling against the waves for a living? In today's Guangdong, farmland, farm tools, and fishermen, have all been redefined.

Farms are being redefined. "Steel fortresses" beneath the deep sea are farms. In the waters near Aizhou Island in the Zhuhai's Wanshan Archipelago, the "Lingding Ranch No.1" aquaculture structure functions like a "mobile granary," producing thousands of tons of fish annually and making the vision of "harvesting food from the sea" a reality. In the waters of Leizhou Bay and the Pearl River Estuary, Chinese white dolphins play and chase the waves. This not only represents a model of ecological conservation, but also turns every white dolphin into a "swimming economic asset."

Farm tools are being redefined. The Beidou Navigation Satellite System is not only high-tech in the sky, but also a great farming tool for farmers, issuing centimeter-level commands to unmanned tractors. The cold-chain logistics lines for Maoming lychees serve as farm tools, extending freshness from 3 days to 40 days. These lines allow the fruit to travel 12,000 kilometers to New York with undiminished sweetness. Code, untouched by soil and seasons, is a farm tool. So are drone swarms that scan over 300 acres of farmland in an hour.

Farmers are being redefined. They are "data poets." Fish farmers in Nansha monitor smartphone screens to effortlessly double their yield. Tea farmers in Chaozhou process tea based on spectral data, giving a thousand-year-old craft quantifiable standards. Farmers are "ecological doctors." "Rural revitalization youth" return home with drones, turning "bitter harvests" into internet-famous "golden fruits." Farmers are agricultural managers, hosting live streams right in the fields, and bringing Lingnan's specialties into households everywhere through the lens.

This profound redefinition is driven by cutting-edge technology. This transformative change is rooted in the High-quality Development Project for Guangdong Counties, Towns and Villages. It enables technology to take root and talent to return home. It allows laborers to sweat less and new farmers to earn more. It lets Lingnan's produce carry cultural warmth and travel farther.

This is the new normfor Guangdong's agriculture: empowering people with technology,and letting technology shape the future of farming.