ScienceChina’s harvest season: where tradition meets agricultural innovation
China’s Farmers’ Harvest Festival, held around the autumn equinox, is being marked this year in Zaoyang, Hubei Province. The celebration highlights agriculture’s changing face, including autonomous machinery, BeiDou-guided harvesting, smart farming and resilient crop varieties. Robots pick peaches, automated harvesters gather rice, and Huazhong Agricultural University’s “High-Protein Corn” produces its first abundant harvest.
China’s harvest season: where tradition meets agricultural innovation
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