Why is scale important for facility agriculture?
With the progress of science and technology and people's pursuit of high-quality agricultural products, facility agriculture has gradually become an important development direction of modern agriculture. The large-scale development of facility agriculture is one of the important trends in the transformation of modern agriculture, so why is scale so important to the development of facility agriculture?
1. Economic efficiency improvement
Scale can increase economic benefits by reducing unit production costs. Mass production facilitates more efficient allocation of resources, including manpower, material and capital, reducing the cost of producing a single product.
2. Technology application and innovation
Large-scale production provides the conditions for efficient technology applications, such as mechanization, automation and intelligence of agricultural production. In large-scale operations, it is easier to invest in high-cost advanced technologies that increase production efficiency, reduce waste, and enable more precise control of the agricultural production environment.
3. Market competitiveness
Large-scale facility agriculture can better adapt to market demand, respond quickly to market changes, and provide stable and diversified products, thus enhancing market competitiveness.
4. Resource utilization efficiency
Scale can optimize the use of resources, such as centralized water and fertilizer management systems and automated irrigation can significantly improve the efficiency of water use, reduce the use of fertilizers and pesticides, and reduce environmental impact.
5. Risk diversification
By operating at scale, diverse crops can be grown, which helps spread risks due to price fluctuations, pests and diseases, climate change and other factors.
6. Quality control
In large-scale facility agriculture, standardized production can be better implemented to ensure the consistency and traceability of product quality and meet the needs of consumers.
7. Policy support and capital concentration
The government encourages large-scale agriculture and provides policy and financial support to promote agricultural modernization. Large-scale agriculture is more easily supported by financial institutions, thereby obtaining funds for infrastructure construction and technological upgrading.
8. Sustainable development
Large-scale facility agriculture makes it easier to achieve sustainable production, develop circular agriculture through waste recycling and other means, and improve the sustainability of the entire agricultural ecosystem.
9. Professional management
Large-scale production helps agricultural operators focus on management and optimization of operation processes, improve management efficiency, and specialized teams can more effectively deal with production, market, financial and other issues.
The large-scale development of facility agriculture is one of the important trends in the transformation of modern agriculture, which is conducive to improving production efficiency and economic benefits, enhancing market competitiveness, realizing the supply of high-quality and high-standard agricultural products, and promoting the sustainable development of agriculture.
