For this practical experience, we ask Taichung District Agricultural and Extension station, the COA staff to arrange the commentary, which is divided into three sections.
(1) explanation and understanding of water-saving irrigation components.
(2) The operation principle of water-saving irrigation system is explained.
(3) Introduction of Intelligent water-saving System.
In the submenu for the various devices have a detailed description, and the bottom of this page is a record of our Minglun team for this visit's experience report.
This time mainly visited the agricultural machinery Laboratory, vegetable research and flower research laboratories and other related to the Golden Corridor of the study units. Among them, the teacher introduced "water-saving irrigation system", applied to agricultural research results, from the plant in the field of micro-sprinkler irrigation, drip irrigation and fertilizer irrigation, to the control of indoor greenhouse environment automatic and remote control system, liquid control system and liquid fertilizer deployment control system, etc., have overturned my stereotype of farmers. Originally, in my imagination, the farmer should wear the hat, the big sun, rolled up trousers, sleeves, playing barefoot covered with mud image, did not think with the application of modern science and technology, can also wear a suit, holding a mobile phone in air-conditioned room, control greenhouse, the field of environmental change and fertilizer, water supply.
At present, Taiwan faces a variety of climate change and environmental impact: soil, water and air pollution, the impact of extreme climate, and so on, the brunt of our survival environment and agricultural production. And how to find a suitable way for crops and human survival under the harsh conditions of life, all the experts in various fields are tested. Today, in the agricultural improvement field in the Taizhong district, we see that Taiwan's agricultural experts play their professional and ingenuity to create another bright road for the harsh agricultural environment of Taiwan. We hope that in our future studies, we will also be able to use the experts of the improvement field as a model to learn, to set a firm goal and to contribute to the improvement of Taiwan's living environment.
The first time into a broad Taichung agricultural improvement field, began to introduce irrigation technology, drip irrigation equipment and pipe irrigation materials, let me understand that the use of these micro-tube irrigation methods for water resources, so that the loss of water and nutrients can be better controlled.
Among them, there is an automatic irrigation system in the improvement field, which can combine fertilizer irrigation control and network monitoring technology of various fertilizers to make me feel very magical, the original agriculture can be so high-tech, can reduce the time that the farmer hard farming.
What impresses me most is that there is a section of the improvement field with solar energy source panels to generate electricity in the greenhouse, solar panels will also change with the direction of the sun, the inside of the greenhouse to grow the need for long light crops, reduce the general open-air crop pests and diseases.
I am very grateful to join this web research design, so that I can contact more than classes in the field of agriculture, more understanding of agriculture and daily life in a close relationship between the diet. Also thanked the Taizhong District Agricultural Improvement Field's Li relieved instructor to let us learn how to save water irrigation and how to slow down the subsidence, also saw this group of people silently for the earth to pay a heart.
In order to understand the "golden corridor" details, we went to the Taichung Agricultural improvement field, the agricultural improvement field has placed a lot of professional machinery, it is really an eye-opener. In addition, there are many high-tech facilities that make it easier for farmers to control farms, such as remote control, the ability to regularly feed fertilizers and watering, which can really save people and resources. Among them, most impresses me is can induction weather and automatic adjustment equipment, if the weather is bad, shelter will automatically shut up, so that those crops will not rain and wither.
At that time, the teacher introduced the type of drip irrigation system, with us to visit the agricultural field to use the drip irrigation system of the agricultural area, agricultural change in the field to plant a lot of crops, but also using the drip irrigation system to cultivate. After the visit, I think the drip irrigation system is really a very resource-saving invention, but I have a doubt in mind: the drip tube hole is how to design it? Will there be holes and crops that are not aligned? After the teacher's detailed introduction and my careful observation, I found a characteristic, the distance between the holes is fixed, even if the pipe changed, it will not occur, the distance between the holes is to avoid crop planting too close will be entangled together and specially designed.
Although the introduction of the "drip irrigation system" requires a lot of costs, but more than the cause of a large number of groundwater extraction caused by subsidence, and thus affect the safety of high-speed rail traffic is much better. It is not a pleasure for farmers to sacrifice the rights and interests of the masses just for the convenience of their own irrigation of farmland.
He theme of this discussion is how to save water and the use of aquatic resources, the use of water in Taiwan, the use of agriculture accounted for 80%, and because the traditional agricultural farming is almost all the extraction of large amounts of groundwater, resulting in subsidence, especially the high-speed rail from the Western Plains, After the Zhanghua County and Yunlin County, the "golden Corridor" of agricultural land within 1.5 kilometres of the high-speed rail, the Council of Agriculture has specifically targeted the area for comprehensive agricultural counselling. Let us have the opportunity to visit the agricultural improvement site and to understand the water-saving measures of agricultural tillage equipment, the use of technology and technology, sensing the growth needs of crops, appropriate to give plants and crops to feed and moisture. There are many facilities in the agricultural reform field, such as wind, solar energy accumulation power supply, remote/automatic switching of water saving equipment, like drop arrows, dropper, micro-spray, drop belt configuration, so that every drop of water is not wasted and not only water-saving, time-saving and labor-saving, and I am surprised that a machine can manage 8 pieces of land of agricultural water supply and feed.
When I went to the farm, I changed the impression that the farmer had to plow the field every day, through modern technology, farmers can operate at home through the network computer, or mobile phone network system operation, do not have to go to the field every day, also do not have to call the day to eat, farmers will move to the use of new technology to operate the agricultural era.
The use of modern agricultural water-saving technology in the "Golden Corridor rural new plan and action plan" can reduce the problem of subsidence, maintain the safety of high-speed rail, but also hope that this policy can be sustained and effectively carried out is the most important.
Another major discovery of this visit is the use of remote monitoring, solar power generation, automatic control functions, so that the combination of technology and farming, let me change before the farmers always work hard to live the stereotype. What plants need is sunlight, water and fertilizer, and attention to the attack of pests, using remote control, can not go to the farm to see all the conditions of the growth of crops, this technology combined with modern technology, is also my favorite part.
The uneven rainfall distribution in Taiwan, the excessive extraction of groundwater, resulting in serious subsidence, especially in Zhanghua Xizhou, Shi, Shutang High railway section is more obvious. The "Golden Corridor" is also the theme of this time, and will seek to solve the problem by promoting water-saving irrigation technology.
Today, a visit to Taichung Agricultural Improvement Field has benefited a lot, can understand the use of remote control, automatic control of the way to water-saving fertilizer, in addition, to further understand the different flowers and fruits, with different water and fertilizer control, will get different harvest results. This visit was a rewarding event.
It was an eye-opener for me to visit the Taichung Agricultural Improvement field this time. Through the teacher from beginning to end, carefully explained to us drip irrigation, drop arrows and the system of spraying arrows. Among them, drip irrigation system is a certain amount of water and fertilizer, drop by drop to the root of the plant irrigation methods. This method drops the water in a drip, slow, uniform, and quantitative way, leaving no water or manure wasted in the soil. These inventions, not only allow farmers to spend a lot of time and energy to care for crops, but also to save water, but also save a lot of fertilizer, can solve the problem of subsidence, really a number.
In the past, farmers used traditional ways to grow rice, often because of extra pumping of ground water, so that the area near the high-speed rail to face subsidence crisis. Today, the government has set the subsidence zone along the high-speed railway as a "golden corridor" to persuade farmers to switch rice fields to dry and drip irrigation systems, hoping not to cause the formation subsidence caused by extra pumping of groundwater, affecting the safety of high-speed rail traffic.
Through this visit, I am most surprised by the greenhouse, it can automatically detect weather conditions to control the scaffolding of the switch, can also set when to water, when to apply fertilizer and can control watering, the amount of fertilizer. Wait。 Farmers can also use mobile phone remote control, do not have to keep the next day in the crops, as long as through the monitoring of the mobile phone, the situation of crop growth completely know, very scientific, innovative advanced.
Due to the traditional farming methods in Taiwan, it is often necessary to extract underground water, especially in Zhanghua County, Yunlin County and other high iron areas, if the extraction of groundwater is increasingly serious, it will endanger the traffic safety of high-speed railway. Therefore, the alleviation of the collapse of the crisis, the rescue of high-speed railway traffic safety issues, it is really urgent, in view of this, the agricultural cultivation of irrigation technology, the importance of this can be seen.
In Taichung area, there are many plants, such as flowers, fruits and vegetables, which are experimented with drip irrigation system, which seems to save water resources, that is, there is no need to take a large amount of groundwater; its appearance is meticulous, excellent and generous, silk no less inferior to the general traditional irrigation method. The use of High-tech technology, the use of sensors to detect plant demand, and according to the data measured to provide appropriate nutrients and water. It can also detect climate needs and adjust the opening and closing of scaffolding in greenhouse farmland to avoid rainwater infiltration or too much sun exposure.
This visit, let me know more about the structure of drip irrigation system and its use, each style can be flexible and fully applied to a variety of plants, such as drop arrows, dropper, micro-spray, drip belt. In addition, there are water-saving, irrigation technology, such as fertilizer, can also use remote control, mobile phone in hand can be manipulated anywhere, and monitor the situation in the farmland, which gave the farmers a great convenience.
We went to the Taizhong area to visit the Agricultural improvement field, among them, I am most interested in is-drip, drip irrigation is the pipeline into a hole, buried in the soil, and then through the computer or mobile phone control, time, the water from the hole timed to flow out, a drop of water supply irrigation, its advantages are:
Plants can absorb moisture-keep humidity.
Second, water is not wasted-save water.
Third, do not have to manually watering-save time and effort.
The theme of this visit is to explore how to save groundwater resources and avoid excessive extraction of groundwater, which causes the strata to collapse and sag. Moreover, the rainfall period in Taiwan is not average, which often occurs half a year in dry season. In dry season, farmers must extract groundwater to irrigate the field, if the application of drip irrigation technology in agriculture, there is no need to worry about such problems.
Through this visit, let me have a preliminary understanding of drip irrigation technology, perhaps one day, can be used in my grandmother's "Happy farm." In this way, she doesn't have to worry about plants dying every day, and not having to work hard to pull out weeds every day. This technique has many advantages, such as saving water, saving fertilizer, preventing formation subsidence and so on. Hope that in the future can use the study in daily life, make life easier, also can add attractions.
The theme of this blog discussion is mainly related to water resources, the abundant rainfall in Taiwan in recent years has often been a shortage of water or effect irrigation crisis, and agricultural water accounted for 80% of the use, therefore, arouse the attention of the group of students, it is bound to be the future development of Taiwan's important issues. Therefore, this visit a lot of irrigation methods, there are drip irrigation system, drop sword device. These devices have a dedicated computer for automatic control, or even remote control through the mobile phone app, like the American "suitcase farmer", so that farmers do not go out, you can know Tanaka. In addition, in order to save water resources, agricultural reform also developed a variety of water saving methods, can be directed at the surrounding plant watering, and let the plant to maintain a certain distance, not only can make the plant gap between the weeds to reduce the breeding, but also to reduce pests and diseases. And to our great eye-opener, they also designed the use of light to control the greenhouse, so that the controller can be based on the intensity of the sun, the size of the wind and the priority of rainfall to control the opening of the canopy and side tent, these changes can be said to be a new generation of agricultural revolution!
This research has made me change the traditional concept. But the new machine allows farmers to sneak in, no need to see the day to eat, through the help of modern technology, to the new era of "science and technology agriculture."
In Taiwan, where agriculture was founded in the early days, the agricultural sector still played a pivotal role in Taiwan, with high-speed rail passing through plain agricultural areas, allowing extra pumping of groundwater to accelerate the rise of the surface, although the government has been arresting many illegal underground wells, but the problem cannot be solved completely. So the plan of the Golden Corridor is the locomotive to settle the subsidence.
This time the theme of our blog is about water-saving research. In this visit, I have known many different ways of watering, such as drip irrigation system, DROP arrow system, these methods can be designed not only automatic mode, but also computer control, remote control, quite advanced, a change of my idea of the original agriculture, before this, I also foolishly thought that modern farmers still belong to squatting in the field, Hard work and pests of the era, did not think that now can be carried out in a scientific way, it is very magical. In addition, the improvement of the scientists in the irrigation method not only designed to save water, and so that each plant can have sufficient water to grow, and the point and spacing of the watering way, but also allows farmers to save a lot of time to remove weeds and reduce pests and diseases! At the same time, they use technology to control the greenhouse, so that the greenhouse can be in accordance with the intensity of the sun, the size of the wind or rain and other conditions, change the extent of the roof of the greenhouse or the opening of the side of the tent, which is completely beyond my previous imagination. In the past, always think that the farmer is a hard industry, now although the hard work is still, but I believe that with the help of the agricultural reform, farmers encounter problems, should not be more helpless!
Finally, in this trip, I also understand that agriculture plays a pivotal role in the country, and it affects not only agriculture, but also other aspects and invisibility. For example, the high-speed rail is now being disturbed by the formation subsidence caused by groundwater irrigation in central and southern China, although the government has already sealed many illegal wells to extract groundwater, the problem of subsidence is delayed and not solved completely, and it is really difficult to choose between high-speed rail and agricultural development. Therefore, the agricultural reform of the "golden Corridor" water-saving irrigation plan, it seems to be able to solve the problem of subsidence, bring hope, bring about changes, bring problems to solve the first glimmer of light!
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