Chinese researchers have developed a number of high-tech products to help farmers get better access to agricultural know-how.

At the beginning of 2020, China’s central government announced plans to pilot a “digital village”, writes Winston Ma Wenyan at World Economic Forum. It’s the country’s latest push towards a “Digital China” since the information consumption policy of 2013,...

Agriculture is the most sensitive field of ​​China’s opening to the outside world, reports Hortidaily. As the only pilot free trade zone with modern agricultural development as its main feature in China, the Yangling district has taken effective measures...

BASF Venture Capital is investing in SmartAHC, a leading supplier of digitalization solutions for pig farming on the Chinese market. SmartAHC was founded in 2014 by graduates of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. The Shanghai-based startup provides customized digital...

As Italy seeks to boost its agriculture sector and the "Made in Italy" brand as it relates to high-quality foodstuffs, analysts say the Chinese market will play an important role in the sector's recovery, reports the Xinhua News Agency. Earlier...

The COVID-19 outbreak has brought a lot of challenges to vegetable and fruit growers, reports FreshPlaza. So what issues have they encountered in terms of cultivation and marketing? Recently, Horti China launched a series of "Hort China Talk" interviews and...

The U.S. and China signed a trade deal to undo some tariffs Wednesday, but thorny details remain unresolved, including how China treats intellectual property, writes Scott Tong at Marketplace. The U.S. accuses Chinese actors of stealing American ideas, including agricultural...

The Global Ag Tech Initiative is looking for select correspondents in key parts of the world to help augment the work of our editorial team this year.

Drones used by farmers have huge global potential due to food safety concerns and the demand for quality produce, agriculture drone vendor XAG told SHINE. XAG's drones are currently used in 38 countries and cover 310 million mu (206,667...

Since ancient times China has been an agricultural country, with both huge demand for and large-scale production of a wide range of agricultural products, writes Shuqing Chen at Synced. China’s per capita arable land area however is far less...

China plays a major role in pushing forward the "big" trends of agri-tech innovation globally with its own unique advantages, despite the challenges to produce more food to feed a huge population at home, an industry expert in Silicon...

Drones were praised as one of the reasons behind the rapid growth of smart agriculture in China at the World Economic Forum’s 13th annual meeting of the New Champions, writes Alex Douglas for Commercial Drone Professional. As an official...

Disruptive innovation is seldom taken seriously in its infancy. Computer pioneers in the 1970s famously downplayed how much consumers would want microcomputers in their homes until Apple invented the personal computer. Newspaper publishers scoffed at internet advertising as “trading dollars...

Being the most suitable region for apple cultivation in southern China, Shaotong has a long history of growing apples, according to an article at FreshPlaza.com. Recently, Eavision have deepened their cooperation with the Yongfeng Haisheng Apple Production Center in...

German company Bayer's agriculture division Bayer Crop Science in China and China's National Agricultural Technology Extension Service Center (NATESC) under the Ministry of Agriculture recently launched the Action Plan for Enhancing Green Development Capability in Beijing, writes Zhu Lingqing...

With just a few clicks, Seth Swanson, an agriculture-technology scientist in Silicon Valley, demonstrated how he monitored and operated an indoor planting system remotely with his smartphone, writes Lia Zhu at China Daily. "We have the ability of consolidating our...

A mass application of drones for artificial pollination is helping fruit farmers in Korla, northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, to take advantage of a full-blossom period of fruit plants in the next two weeks to grow premium fruits,...

From northwestern Xinjiang to Jiansanjiang, a major grain growing base in northeastern Heilongjiang Province, to an automated farm in Xinghua, eastern Jiangsu Province, China is exploring precision agriculture, a new way of farming that might one day lead to...

Increasingly regulation, combined with bad press for drones, is causing a mild decline in recreational drone sales, so DJI of China is directing more attention to promoting drones for agriculture, according to Drone Reviews and News. The Financial Times is...

Demand for agricultural drone pilots in China has risen as the technology matures, enabling a skilled operator to cover more acreage than human effort ever could. It is also driven ironically by the shortage of manpower in the countryside,...