Pinduoduo has taken root deeper in agriculture.

On June 27th, the results of the Guangming Duoduo Vertical Agriculture Challenge and the 3rd "Duoduo Agricultural Research Technology Competition" were announced. After the final competition and expert review, Dr. He Lizhong led the Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences team to ultimately win the championship and the "Highest Yield Award".

At this agricultural research technology competition, young experts from different fields and backgrounds formed teams and stood out from 15 participating teams around the world, running to the finals to bring different ideas and innovations to agricultural research through the competition.

The final team has shown us the direction and path of the transformation from sweat agriculture to smart agriculture. Pinduoduo will continue to hold innovation competitions, encouraging everyone to write their papers on the earth and leave their achievements at the farmers' homes, "said Wang Jian, Senior Vice President of Pinduoduo.

The arena of Duoduo Agricultural Research Competition is also an experimental field for promoting agriculture through technology.

The Duoduo Agricultural Research Technology Competition, which has been held continuously for many years, is a successful exploration and attempt to shift agriculture towards high-quality development, and also a frontline battlefield for promoting agriculture through technology. From the arena to the farm, agricultural research is further transformed into mass production achievements, promoting agriculture towards the era of intelligence.

The science and technology agriculture "big chess game" behind the "Agricultural Research Competition"

In the final of this agricultural research technology competition, participating teams need to balance yield, quality, and resource consumption in the three rounds of planting of "Cuitian" lettuce. The final score will be based on the results of the third round of planting.

In addition, the competition also invited 15 public judges to taste and score the "Cuitian" lettuce grown by the final team, and the regulatory authorities conducted rapid inspections on the lettuce products grown in the competition.

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The four final teams are together with experts and leaders from the event organizers and guiding units.

The biggest highlight of this agricultural research technology final is the competition between the agricultural team represented by Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences and LettUs Grow, and the engineering team represented by Shanghai Jiao Tong University's "Eternal Life" team and CyberFamer team.

The four participating teams take turns introducing their planting strategies, technologies, achievements, and commercial promotion plans. A judging panel composed of top experts evaluates the competition results of each team. Based on comprehensive factors such as planting techniques, strategies, and achievements, provide the final ranking for the finals.

The final planting results showed that the Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences team achieved the highest scores in both yield and quality, while the CyberFarmer team achieved the highest score in sustainability. In the end, the Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences team won the championship.

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Feng Zhiyong (fourth from left), Secretary of the Party Group and Director of the Shanghai Agriculture and Rural Committee, presented awards to the champion team.

In the finals, the Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences team built a relatively mature intelligent planting decision management system, based on a big data cloud platform database construction, combined with sensor data, integrated plant growth models, light interception models, transpiration models and other algorithms, and ultimately achieved success.

There is a 'big chess game' behind the competition.

The agricultural research and technology competition itself is not the goal, the purpose is to cultivate talents and gather innovation. Pinduoduo has a deep understanding of China's rural areas and agriculture, and knows that the most lacking elements on the road to technological agricultural transformation are talent and innovation.

This competition, through interdisciplinary team collaboration and cross fusion, has trained the team, improved our teamwork ability, and enabled us to understand and summarize more experience in container plant factory cultivation, "said He Lizhong, the captain of the Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences team." In the competition, we had the opportunity to exchange and learn from industry peers, and it also pointed out the direction for our future scientific research

Technology agriculture ultimately needs to be grounded. The effectiveness of the competition still depends on the landing situation. The Duoduo Agricultural Research Technology Competition is not only a training ground for agricultural research technology, but also a field for the transformation of achievements.

The winning team achieved remarkable results, and the participating teams also had landing results.

In this competition, the LettUs Grow team's innovative lettuce weight prediction model can predict plant growth, guide market time and yield, and also reverse demand, guide crop arrangement and planting plans, and flexibly adjust production rates according to market demand.

The "Eternal Life" team of Shanghai Jiao Tong University has built an information platform for "Eternal Life", which remotely collects and visualizes over 130000 sets of data, achieving a data fusion platform that integrates monitoring, decision-making, and control systems, providing "infrastructure" for smart cultivation.

The CyberFamer team has developed agricultural technology innovations such as an intelligent environmental control method for plant factories based on crop physiological feedback and a dynamic monitoring technology for lettuce net assimilation based on CO2 mass balance. The goal is to achieve maximum economic yield through moderate control of growth rate.

Translating cutting-edge agricultural technologies into achievements is the "higher goal" of the Duoduo Agricultural Research Science and Technology Competition.

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On June 6th, 15 public judges tasted and scored the "Cuitian" lettuce grown by the final team, and market supervision staff in Changning District, Shanghai conducted on-site inspections.

The yield prediction model designed by the champion team of the second "Duoduo Agricultural Research Technology Competition", "Tomato Fast Growth", combines the physiological needs learned from the genetic level of the variety with the images observed on site, allowing them to be fused and corrected.

At present, the team leader Xu Dan has been using this algorithm in his glass greenhouse at Polaris Agriculture. Based on the predicted values, it can better arrange harvesting workers and connect with enterprises.

Behind the gathering of talents, achievements, and promotion of innovation, the Duoduo Agricultural Research Technology Competition is trying to find a new path in science and technology agriculture.

This path of technological agriculture can not only solve the practical problem of talent shortage and technology shortage in cutting-edge agricultural technology through talent cultivation and technological innovation, but also accelerate the transformation of agricultural scientific and technological achievements, which is expected to further change the mode of agricultural production.

Our agriculture and rural areas not only lack talents, but also lack technology and efficient production methods, so we need to take a unique path of technological agriculture. The efficient agricultural production method is actually the combination of technological innovation and industrial production of agricultural products.

To truly implement technological innovation in agriculture, new models and technological innovations are still needed. Pinduoduo's research and exploration of vertical agriculture is a very important step.

Exploring a "New Path" to Promote Rural Revitalization from Assisting Agriculture to "Revitalizing Agriculture"

The development of industry and commerce in the past few decades cannot be separated from the support of rural areas and agriculture. Currently, industrial upgrading not only means upgrading the industrial sector, but also requires "industrial upgrading" in agriculture.

The Agricultural Research and Technology Competition is of great significance in promoting the upgrading of the agricultural industry. How to drive the upgrade? Pinduoduo's solution is to solve the problem of "two skins" in scientific research and production, and effectively connect the demand side.

The 'industrial upgrading' from labor-intensive agriculture to technology-based agriculture requires linking 'new demand' and 'new supply'.

From the demand side, people's demand for high-quality agricultural products is still not well met. From the supply side, improving the quality of agricultural products and how to deliver better vegetables and fruits to the dining tables in the city is still a problem that needs to be solved.

From a supply side perspective, as the largest agricultural product upstream platform in the country, Pinduoduo naturally has the advantages of channels and industrial chains, which means one thing: it can quickly push good agricultural products into the upstream market.

This is of great significance for the rapid transformation of agricultural research into achievements and their input into production.

From "samples" to "products" and then to "explosive products", Pinduoduo can turn the achievements of agricultural researchers into agricultural and sideline products that are popular among consumers across the country.

Yunnan's potato, Hainan's lychee, Liaoning's rice, Shandong's prawns... Agricultural products do not lack the genes of popular products, but rather the channels and capabilities to create them. And Pinduoduo happens to have such ability.

The scientific research results have more benefits, and there are more talents willing to devote themselves to agricultural research. There are more agricultural technology talents, and the development of agriculture through science and technology can be targeted.

The series of agricultural assistance projects launched by Pinduoduo in the past are actually good examples.

From assisting agriculture to promoting agriculture, it is not only about bringing high-value agricultural products into the city and keeping their value in the countryside, but more importantly, bringing a new sustainable development approach to agriculture and rural areas.

From the laboratory to the fields, agricultural research has further landed and gradually explored new ways to promote rural revitalization.

The winning team of the first "Duoduo Agricultural Research Technology Competition", "Zhiduo Berry", has built a digital strawberry production system in Laowo Village, Nujiang Prefecture, Yunnan Province, which has reduced the common labor costs of the strawberry industry in Laowo Village by more than 30%.

Pinduoduo helps agriculture by creating channels, connecting the upward flow of agricultural products, and promoting agriculture through Pinduoduo. It is not just about creating product channels, but also about creating value channels. Bring agricultural technology from the laboratory to the fields, bring product added value from developed cities to rural areas, bring it to farmers, and promote rural revitalization.

There are good expectations for the transformation of results in this competition.

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The four containerized plant factories in this competition will become agricultural research bases jointly built by Pinduoduo and Guangming Mother Port, continuing to be used for research and exploration in vertical agriculture.

Whether it is the winning Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences or the participating teams, the results of the competition can further promote the rapid increase of lettuce production. In fact, it's not just lettuce as a category, it can also be used for the production of various crops in the future, and there is great potential for future applications

Agriculture has been the most important industry in China since ancient times, and the innovation and application of modern agricultural technology can improve agricultural production efficiency and quality, improve farmers' living standards, promote rural economic development, and also help ensure the country's food security and sustainable development of the ecological environment, "said Wang Jian, Senior Vice President of Pinduoduo.

Driven by a series of agricultural research competitions, Pinduoduo is further promoting agricultural technology research and development, transformation, and implementation.

Last month, Pinduoduo donated 100 million yuan to China Agricultural University and established the "Pinduoduo China Agricultural University Research Fund" to support China Agricultural University in exploring basic research and core agricultural technologies around major national strategic needs.

Under the "Billion Agricultural Research" initiative, a series of agricultural research competitions such as the Agricultural Research Technology Competition, the "Pinduoduo Cup" Science and Technology Academy Competition, and the Global Agricultural Maker Competition are being held in an orderly manner. The fire of agricultural research and innovation ignited by Pinduoduo is also growing stronger and stronger.

Conclusion:

The transformation of technological agricultural productivity requires innovation and continuous exploration.

Pinduoduo has always been an innovator and explorer on the path of technological agriculture and rural revitalization. This time, the Duoduo Agricultural Research Technology Competition has presented a future vision of smart agriculture for the agricultural society. It is worth looking forward to how to turn this vision into reality.