Walking into the digital agricultural demonstration park of Shandong Seed Industry Group Co., Ltd in Rizhao City, east China's Shandong Province, rows of seedling greenhouses glow brightly in the sunlight. A busy scene is spotted with workers checking and boxing the seedlings inside the greenhouses. Outside the sheds, see the comes-and-goes of the vehicles transporting those boxes.
Covering an area of about 320 mu (about 21.33 hectares), the demonstration park can cultivate watermelon, melon, pepper, tomato, cucumber, eggplant, and other types of vegetable, melon, and fruit seedlings, with an annual nursery capacity of about 75 million seedlings worth more than 100 million yuan, according to Tang Guodong, an agricultural technician at the park.
Now is the peak time for sprouting, with a maximum of 350,000 sprouts per day, Tang introduced. The demonstration park is busy with the seedlings all year round, Tang picked up a tomato seedling and said, noting such a tomato seedling can sell for 0.9 to more than 1 yuan.
Automation and mechanization empower the agricultural demonstration park of Shandong Seed Industry Group to have a standardized seedling production that features shortened nursery time and a high survival rate of up to 98 percent.
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