With the support of National 863 Program, China has landed an array of important findings

or accomplishments in the area of digital farming, including biological and environmental

information collection and interpretation, digital agricultural process model, soil sensor and

spectral sounding, pests and weeds identification, 3-D plant information collection, digital

domestic animal raising, digital agricultural knowledge platform, wireless greenhouse

control technology, digital food drying technique, fruit picking robot, and agrifood tracking

system.

Digital farming activities have resulted in laudable accomplishments, including 43 patent

applications, including 25 inventions, 23 software copyright grants, 26 software copyright

applications, 14 novel products, 264 papers (of them, 47 have been collected by SCI/EI),

1 new species, 42 demonstration zones, and application of findings in 36 agrifood

enterprises.