So far, China's BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (use) in agriculture. It is helping farmers apply fertilizers and pesticides more (precise). An intelligent fertilizer-pesticide distributor, (assist) by the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System and big data technology, has been working in the wheat field in Hancun village in Jiangdu county, east China's Jiangsu Province. Through the remote network technology service platform, the machine can provide high-precision fertilizer (distribute). When the movement of the machine deviates (偏离) from the target path, system could correct the deviation in real time.
Han Baolong, a farmer in the village, said the automatic distributor helped him a lot because the coronavirus outbreak since January had caused a severe lack of workers, traditionally applied fertilizers and pesticides by hand.
The BDS system has also made agricultural production (smart) and more precise. Self-driving tractors and unmanned farming vehicles based the BDS system have been used to explore precision farming in northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, northeastern Heilongjiang Province, and at an automated farm in eastern Jiangsu Province. By April, 2019, the BDS system had served more than 50, 000 (piece) of agricultural machinery, (save) 10 percent of fuel.
