China on Friday launched its first large artificial intelligence (AI) model dedicated to monitoring and protecting high-standard farmland, aiming to upgrade the country’s farmland management from quantity-focused preservation to quality improvement. The system integrates a central foundation model with dedicated “vertical models” designed for specific tasks such as field segmentation, crop classification and engineering quality inspection. It can diagnose soil health, predict trends and autonomously generate management plans, offering full-life-cycle management for high-standard farmland.

Source -> https://xcancel.com/ChinaScience/status/1997893903077249376#m

More on the model -> https://tech.gmw.cn/2025-12/06/content_38461509.htm

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Farmland is the lifeblood of food production. Currently, my country’s farmland protection is entering a new stage of integrated protection encompassing quantity, quality, and ecology, placing higher demands on real-time monitoring, accurate evaluation, and scientific decision-making. “Traditional models relying on manual labor and decentralized operations are no longer sufficient to meet the needs of all-weather, wide-coverage, and in-depth analysis in farmland management,” said Wu Wenbin, director of the Institute of Agricultural Resources and Planning at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, at the press conference. He added that the “Agricultural Big Data Model 1.0” is a systematic achievement of the national research team in responding to the urgent needs of national strategy, transforming cutting-edge artificial intelligence into core capabilities for farmland supervision.

The core innovation of this model lies in its pioneering collaborative intelligent agent architecture, which combines a “general knowledge-based large model + domain knowledge + vertical toolchain.” Using an advanced basic large model as the “central scheduling brain,” it deeply integrates petabyte-level multi-source spatiotemporal data of cultivated land with professional rules, and integrates dozens of specialized models for specific scenarios such as field segmentation, facility identification, and crop classification, forming an “intelligent agent cluster” capable of understanding, diagnosing, inferring, and making decisions. “This solves the pain points of ‘fragmented’ technology and ‘breakpoint’ business operations, allowing machines to upgrade from ‘seeing’ cultivated land to ‘understanding’ it,” Wu Wenbin explained.