Due to the impact of the Covid-19 epidemic, farmers have not been able to do farm work in their fields during the spring ploughing season in 2020. Moreover, some farmers are not confident in deciding the right time for sowing and the right choice of seeds. They are also unprepared for the potential risks in the spring ploughing season. In general, farmers are faced with two major issues: how to return to the field and how to stabilize production.

On 5^th March 2020, for agricultural enterprises to better prepare for spring ploughing and balance the supply and demand of agricultural materials, Haiyouhe, an agricultural platform under Haier COSMOPlat, launched a service platform to help fight Covid-19 and assist farmers. This platform provides solutions for farmers, helps them with their preparation plans, and makes sure they can return to the fields and increase production safely.  

Fight Covid-19 and support farming

During the fight against Covid-19, Haiyouhe of Haier COSMOPlat works with the Gago Group in launching a Covid-19 service platform by utilizing satellite remote sensing, AI, and big data technologies. Through this platform, agricultural producers can obtain information about the progress of spring ploughing and make arrangements accordingly. Agricultural departments of different levels of governments also benefit from the platform in seizing the opportunities of spring ploughing while maintaining the fighting force against Covid-19.  

On the service platform, users can have access to ploughing and sowing area information, risk predictions and weather forecasts for farming preparations. Farmers can make better farming preparations by checking the visualized ploughing and sowing areas, real-time weather reports and growing period predictions.

“On this platform, we can see the dynamic status of areas suitable for ploughing and sowing activities. We also include the variable of Covid-19 so that farmers can arrange their farming work based on the analysis produced by the platform and feel safer in their decision-making” said the manager of a dry rice plantation base in southern China. In one word, Haier COSMOPlat with its spring ploughing service platform has greatly assisted the farming work and the fight against Covid-19.

  Full support for agricultural production and sales

  The information of spring ploughing alone is not enough for a smooth return to farming. Due to the impact of Covid-19, agricultural produce and equipment are hard to match, and logistics are also hindered. To solve these issues and pave the way for the return of farming, the Haier COSMOPlat farmer service platform provides agricultural producers and users with full-scenario ecosystem solutions in terms of planation, supply chains, and user ends.

On the plantation side, the platform provides services such as AI pest control, smart water and fertilizer management, greenhouses/fields with IoC functions, smart precision drone-assisted crop protection; on the supply chain side, storage, processing and logistics services are provided for unprocessed grain; on the users’ side, the platform offers customized special local products, community fresh food personalization, mass customization of the enterprise agricultural food base and tracing of agricultural products etc. Each party of the ecosystem is interconnected to boost the sales of agricultural food and meet customers’ demands in terms of healthy food and food safety.

Many fertilizer enterprises and farming machinery enterprises have joined the platform to provide services to farmers and assist them in returning to the field and ramping up production. Haier COSMOPlat promotes the sale of agricultural products by publishing the information of slow-selling products for over 2,600 agricultural cooperatives.