PROGRAM: P-8

Title:

THE OUTLOOK OF BIG DATA APPLICATION IN AGRICULTURE IN CHINA

Wensheng Wang¹* and Leifeng Guo¹

*¹Agricultural Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, No.12 Zhongguancun South Road , Haidian District, 100081, Beijing, China

Abstract:

Agriculture is a vital industry in China, employing over 300 million farmers. Despite rapid development of China’s agriculture, it still faces several challenges, like expanding population, low efficiency, decreased arable land, and increasing labor cost, etc. The only way to revolutionize China’s agriculture pattern and current challenges it faced should be from technology innovation, especially ICTs, such as Big Data. Obviously, agriculture is one of largest playgrounds for big data in the future. The data ranges from soil, weather, water, seed, fertilizers, and pests etc. which generate volumes of data every day. Big data and the Internet of Things (IoT) platforms will be the key enabler to revolutionize China’s agriculture. This poster provides a brief outlook on China’s agriculture from the area of crop, livestock, orchard, fishery with the potential application of big data in the future.

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