China's smart agriculture competition offers smart solutions for agriculture
Chinese students are trying to use AI and digital technologies to cultivate a new variety of lettuce in the next 3 months.
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Smart Agriculture Competition 2021 calls for international participants
The competition this year will apply nutrition science, precision farming and other interdisciplinary expertise to cultivate tomatoes. The winners will be judged on the yield and nutritional value of the tomatoes. Taking place over six months, the competition is open to all agronomists and computer scientists around the world and has a total prize pool of more than RMB one million.
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Here's what happened when AI and humans met in a strawberry-growing contest
Strawberries can be easy to grow – especially, it seems, if you’re an algorithm. When farmers in China competed to grow the fruit with technology including machine learning and artificial intelligence, the machines won, by some margin. Data scientists produced 196% more strawberries by weight on average compared with traditional farmers.
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Why Pinduoduo is investing in agritech
Agriculture “has always been close to the heart of Pinduoduo since its inception,” said Pinduoduo’s senior vice president Andre Zhu, “Investing in smart agriculture is an extension of what we do and guided by our goal of promoting digital inclusion.”
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AI strawberries are just the beginning for remaking agriculture
At the inaugural Smart Agriculture Competition organized by Pinduoduo, China’s largest agricultural e-commerce platform, teams of data scientists are applying AI algorithms to grow strawberries remotely in automated greenhouses.
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Chinese e-commerce platform Pinduoduo wants A.I. to grow our food
The company organized the competition with the China Agricultural University pitting traditional farming methods against AI models. Earlier this month it said in a press release the AI teams had produced 175% more fruit by weight.
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China's Pinduoduo turns to smart farming for post-COVID growth
KUNMING, China -- Pinduoduo, operator of China's second-biggest e-commerce market, got its start as a platform for farmers to connect with urban shoppers through livestreaming events and other online tools. Now, the company is taking digital technology into the fields to capitalize on surging demand for safe, reliable produce in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
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AI vs Experience: Scientists and Farmers Face off in Agriculture Competition
The four science and technology teams are composed of scholars from top universities and research institutions, such as China Agricultural University, Wageningen University, Amsterdam University in Netherlands and Ghent University in Belgium. The four traditional agriculture teams include top-tier farmers from major strawberry-producing regions in China, such as the provinces of Anhui and Liaoning.
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Pinduoduo to hold “Smart Agriculture Competition”
Contestants from around the globe will have three and a half months to remotely grow strawberries using advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning. Participants will be evaluated in terms of how much economic benefit they can bring with their technology, as well as the reliability, scalability and technical merit of the growing techniques.
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Duoduo Smart Agriculture Competition launched
The inaugural Duo Duo Smart Agriculture Competition, organized jointly by the China Agricultural University and Pinduoduo, will take place over four months in the plateau of Yunnan Province and see competitors from around the world come up with planting methods that are best suited for the local conditions, using either advanced AI technologies or horticultural know-how.
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