Chapter 342: Jointly Embracing the Era of Water Conservation (3/4)
Israel's Shahwi does not recognize this pot.
In his opinion, the comprehensive solutions for water-saving agriculture provided by his company start from a rigorous business evaluation, and meet the needs of all parties through overall design and detailing, except for the expensive points, there are basically no shortcomings.
Tianye Company's Wenhuatang "Hehe", he casually cited two examples.
During his time in Israel, he sold a number of self-controlled irrigation products. Israel is an arid country with very little rain in a year and almost non-existent thunder. But in southern China, especially in summer, there are often thunders and rains, and when there is a thunderstorm, the automation products will be damaged by lightning, and the Israelis regard this situation as a natural disaster and are not covered by the warranty, so many customers spend a lot of money, but they do not use stable and reliable irrigation products.
In addition, because the self-controlled irrigation system is an all-English operation interface, it is extremely unfriendly to farmers. Although some systems are designed with Chinese interfaces, the interface is complex, and farmers still feel uncertain in practical applications, and are usually managed by professionals.
In contrast, Tianye's integrated irrigation management system of water and fertilizer has a more user-friendly interface and simpler operation, which is convenient for farmers to use.
In this regard, Shahvi stressed that his own water-saving irrigation system is more functional, not only can collect data such as soil moisture, climate and environment, crop growth indicators, etc., but also make irrigation decisions, plant nutrition decisions, plant protection decisions and early warning ......
One is the largest irrigation equipment company in Israel, and the other is the largest water-saving irrigation agriculture company in the country, each with its own advantages.
It was also the first time for Jiagu to build such a large-scale water-saving irrigation system, so Xie Kaiji of Jiagu Agriculture and Du Weimin of Jiagu Agricultural Materials gathered together to express their opinions.
It is a must for Jiagu to comprehensively apply water-saving irrigation technologies such as water and moisture conservation, water and fertilizer integration, rainfall collection and supplementary irrigation, drought and stress resistance, and drought-tolerant varieties in desert management and development.
It is not only because of the large amount of evaporation in the local area, so it is necessary to save water and fertilizer, but also because of the need to save manpower, the northwest is sparsely populated, and the labor force is insufficient, and it takes a lot of effort to recruit manpower to plant trees and grass in front, and even camels are used.
The construction of a large-scale water-saving irrigation system, although the investment is huge, but the benefits are also obvious, not only greatly saving the input resources, and "open the valve, click the mouse, wear leather shoes" instead of "shovels, lanterns, rubber shoes", the efficiency is naturally not the same.
Qi Zheng thought about it, stopped the management's argument about the two products, and at the same time proposed a new cooperation proposal to the two companies, Jiagu should establish a joint venture to develop and produce water-saving irrigation products, and the products should not only meet China's national conditions, but also meet the actual needs of Jiagu.
As soon as this proposal came out, Shahvi only hesitated for a while, and after asking the headquarters for instructions, he rejected the cooperation proposal.
Netafim feels that its technology is in a leading position in the world, and its products are sold and serviced all over the world, and Jiagu cannot provide any help in research and development, and there is no need to cultivate a new competitor for a project.
As for the domestic Tianye company, it has been hesitating and entangled...... I want to win this big project, but again, I don't want to breed a strong competitor.
Even Qi Zheng was a little impatient and decided to show him Jiagu's technical strength.
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Wen Huatang, an engineer of Tianye Company, was invited to the Jiagu laboratory of Jiagu headquarters.
In front of me is a large screen embedded in the wall. On the screen, the strips of farmland look like Tetris, the green is corn, the yellow is soybeans, and the purple is corn. The projection on the wall to his left shows more details, mountains, rivers, roads and ridges, as well as crop growth and meteorological conditions. With the movement of the mouse, it is like taking a helicopter into a short journey, thousands of acres of farmland rush away from your feet, and the dynamics in front of you are all under control.
Gao Peng, chief engineer of platform development, introduced to Wen Huatang, who couldn't take his eyes off it: "This is a digital agricultural platform with independent intellectual property rights independently developed by Jiagu, which can combine meteorological data, low-altitude spectral images, satellite remote sensing images, Internet of Things data, historical operation data, etc., to establish a three-dimensional monitoring and operation mode of the farm's 'sky-low-ground-underground', and build a three-dimensional and intelligent big data cloud platform for production management." ”
A few years ago, the meteorological service company he founded was acquired by Jiagu, and with the full support of Jiagu, a digital agricultural platform with complete functions was finally developed.
He proudly says, "There can be more applications on the platform. If we cooperate, we can integrate the integrated irrigation system of water and fertilizer, and truly realize the functions of multi-terminal monitoring of crop growth environment, remote water and fertilizer irrigation control, and agricultural big data collection. ”
Wen Huatang was still a little stunned, he really couldn't imagine that Jiagu had gone so far in the exploration of agricultural digital management.
But Kagu Lab hit him more than a little.
Without bothering the two masters, Gao Peng continued to take him to visit a drip irrigation technology research in Jiagu called "shallow buried drip irrigation".
This is an idea proposed by a director of the Agricultural Technology Extension Center in Mongolian Province, and after the Jiagu Laboratory heard about it, the two sides conducted a joint study.
"Through the comparative test of drip irrigation under film and shallow drip irrigation, the technicians found that the mulching and non-mulching did not have much impact on crop yields. The mulching drip irrigation technology requires farmers to introduce seedlings to the holes, once there is a deviation from the holes, the seedlings will not come out, and we want to think about how to remove the mulching for drip irrigation. ”
"Although it has not yet been successful, a number of patent results have been achieved. Once the research and development is successful, drip irrigation under the film will be upgraded to no film covering, only hose laying, water saving, drug control, fertilizer control, and film control. Gao Peng talked eloquently.
Wenhuatang's complexion changed greatly. Compared with the digital agriculture platform, the shallow drip irrigation technology has a greater impact on him. This can be called a revolution in the planting industry, and once successful, the impact on drip irrigation under film is needless to say.
Gao Peng smiled faintly, of course, there are still many difficulties in research and development, and even if the research and development is successful, the Jiagu system does not have the production capacity of irrigation equipment, which is also one of the reasons why Jiagu wants to enter a joint venture with Tianye Company.
"There are also studies on mobile shared mountain drip irrigation systems for mountainous areas, and research on the use of wind energy to 'refuel' irrigation equipment......"
The head of Wenhua Hall is big. He couldn't help but smile bitterly, it seems that this time it is not that Jiagu wants a joint venture, but that his own company needs to seek cooperation.
As expected, the news that Wen Huatang brought back made Tianye Company feel like a big enemy.
Negotiations for a joint venture were officially commenced, and an agreement was quickly reached, as Kaya made an unexpected concession.
Jiagu Agricultural Materials and Tianye Company cooperated to establish a joint venture company to jointly develop and produce a new generation of water-saving and energy-saving irrigation equipment; the joint venture company is controlled by Tianye, but all irrigation equipment for self-use in Jiagu system must be the lowest price.
Du Weimin of Jiagu Agricultural Materials once asked Qi Zheng before the negotiation, why did we have to give in when we had an advantage?
Qi Zheng smiled: "Although Jiagu is committed to becoming a leader in the domestic industry, it does not mean that it is unrealistic to take the lead in various fields. The best strategy is to integrate the resources of all links of the agricultural industry chain, cooperate with enterprises in different professional fields, and form a business strategic alliance, so as to have real influence. ”
"Since it's cooperation, the most important thing is that everyone is happy. We have cheap and advanced irrigation equipment available, Tianye Company to maintain the leading position in the industry, and jointly embrace the era of water conservation, isn't it good?"
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