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Fujin’s Rice Fields: Farming with Water and Data

Fujin’s rice landscape is built from water management, local labour and increasingly precise agricultural tools. A farmer’s account of smart irrigation shows how one field’s routine is changing.

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A crop and a place to learn

Fujin’s government directory lists the city’s Rice Park separately from its National Wetland Park and museum. That distinction makes room for an agricultural story: the rice landscape is cultivated and managed, not simply a green view. A 2025 local report on smart agriculture follows Liu Chun, a rice farmer who adopted an automated irrigation system. He said the system lets him adjust water remotely to match the crop’s needs. He described his earlier field use as about 900 cubic metres per mu, compared with roughly 450 to 500 cubic metres after switching to automated drainage and irrigation. This is one farmer’s reported comparison, not a universal rate for Fujin.

From fieldwork to monitoring

The same report describes a rice science demonstration park with monitoring stations that combine image recognition, satellite remote sensing and weather data. Cameras record crop images; local agricultural technicians use field information to issue guidance on plant growth, weeds and pests. The municipal agricultural centre reported that more than sixty monitoring systems across the city send information to a shared platform. These tools do not remove the farmer from the field. They change what can be observed and when decisions are made: a reading from a sensor can support a person deciding how much water a plot needs.

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