Tianjin Launches Cloud-based Training to Boost Spring Ploughing with Agricultural Technology

As Tianjin enters the crucial period of spring ploughing and field management, the Tianjin Municipal Bureau of Agriculture and Rural Affairs has carefully organized a special cloud-based training program for spring ploughing to implement the national food security strategy and bridge the "last mile" of agricultural science and technology services for farmers. By building an online "cloud classroom" and inviting agricultural experts to act as "cloud anchors", the program provides real-time online consultation services, delivering practical agricultural technologies and scientific methods directly to the fields.

As a pioneer in the development of modern urban agriculture, Tianjin has always given top priority to grain production. According to the Tianjin Municipal Bureau of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, to address the urgent demand for agricultural technologies among farmers and the restrictions on offline centralized training during spring ploughing, the training innovates service models, breaking time and space constraints through digital means.

The bureau has coordinated agricultural technology resources across the city, inviting 5 senior experts from the Tianjin Agricultural Center and the Tianjin Academy of Agricultural Sciences, who specialize in grain and oil crop planting, pest control and water-fertilizer management. Based on the actual production of wheat, corn and rice in Tianjin, the experts have tailored five core thematic courses covering key technologies throughout the entire production process.

During the live broadcast classes, experts abandoned obscure professional terms and used simple and down-to-earth explanations to teach core content such as green prevention and control, yield improvement, quality upgrading and rice cultivation optimization. They accurately predicted the occurrence trend of major spring crop diseases and pests, and taught key skills for green prevention and control and scientific pesticide use.

Breaking the single mode of traditional training, the cloud classroom turned the live comment section into an online consultation platform. Farmers could post questions about new variety selection, pest control, field management and agricultural materials in real time, and experts answered them online one-on-one. "The technologies taught by experts are exactly what we need for farming. It’s very convenient to get immediate responses to online questions," said Tian Hui, a large grain grower in Dongli District.

According to Tianjin Daily, the live broadcasts received enthusiastic participation from farmers, with the total number of likes exceeding 50,000. To expand the coverage of the training, agricultural and rural departments at municipal and district levels widely promoted the courses through live streaming platforms, official WeChat public accounts and WeChat groups of planting entities.

The training was also broadcast simultaneously on the "Jinke Zhunong" platform and the "Jinzhihui Nong" section of "Yunshang Zhinong", attracting a total of more than 34,000 person-times to watch online. To ensure the technologies are put into practice, the Tianjin Municipal Bureau of Agriculture and Rural Affairs has established a follow-up service mechanism, with the professional technical team of "Jinke Zhunong" providing regular tracking services through online follow-ups and offline guidance.

As an important grain-consuming region with excellent performance in national grain production assessment, Tianjin has maintained a steady growth in grain output, achieving 21 consecutive years of bumper harvests. This cloud-based training further injects technological momentum into spring agricultural production, laying a solid foundation for a full-year grain harvest.