In the age of industrialization, mankind has gradually entered an era of material abundance. When a country realizes industrialization, the problem of material shortages in this country will be basically resolved. The abundance of materials is not only due to more abundant raw materials, but more from the improvement of utilization and production efficiency. Industrialization is driven by the advancement of equipment and technology, which has formed what we often call the n.0 era, namely the 1.0 era of mechanization, the era of electrification 2.0, the era of information 3.0, and the era of intelligence (individualization) brought about by steam engines. era. I once wanted to write something about agricultural n.0, but then I thought, we are still on the way to the 1.0 era, what can we talk about agricultural n.0? So give up.

We were talking about facility agriculture as factory agriculture more than 20 years ago. There is nothing wrong with factory farming. Factory farming does not mean industrialization. Factoryization is a concept opposite to workshopization. It refers to production activities carried out in a fixed and protected place with equipment cooperation, and has no inevitable connection with scientific and efficient management. It can be considered that facility agriculture is the factory production of horticultural products. In recent years, many people in the industrial and business circles have devoted themselves to facility agriculture, and there are more people talking about the industrialization of facility agriculture, or they are talking about using the concept of industrialization to do facility agriculture. Frankly speaking, facility agriculture is a completely different industry from manufacturing and light industry. It is not feasible to directly adopt industrialization or fully adopt the concept of industrialization. We can only learn from the production organization and management methods of industry to realize the intensification of facility agriculture. produce. Because facility agriculture is still agriculture, no matter how well-equipped facility gardening factories are, they must face the diversity of agricultural production.

At this time, a prominent contradiction was exposed. Factory production, intensive production, the higher the degree of standardization of products, the better, the fewer specifications the better, and the more consistent the production process, the better. But what about our facility gardening industry? Faced with so many categories, each category has so many varieties, each variety is managed and operated by different people in different regions and in different conditions in the greenhouse, using the nutritional fertilization formula that has been explored for many years. Even if the difference is small, there are still production processes. If we say that each difference is a variable, how many variables does our facility gardening factory face? What a huge data the product of these variables is! What's more, we have to turn products into products of different stages and forms according to the tastes and habits of consumers and the preferences of sales channels. To use the popular saying: Facility gardening factory is too difficult.