The agricultural drone challenge to celebrate the seventh Chinese Farmers' Harvest Festival, which fell on Sept 22, recently took place at the Tianhe Smart Agricultural Park in Guangzhou's Tianhe district.

Participants prepare for the race. [Photo/WeChat account: tianhefabu]

A remotely operated drone loaded with feed rises into the air and flies over the breeding base of the Tianhe Smart Agricultural Park along a preset track, accurately spraying the feed in the continuous fish ponds. [Photo/WeChat account: tianhefabu]

An exhibition that displayed over 20 advanced agricultural intelligent facilities, including geomagnetic gravity cars and automatic picking robots, was also launched at the site the same day.

The race attracts many spectators. [Photo/WeChat account: tianhefabu]

Tianhe is strong in innovation and serves as the agricultural sci-tech support area in Guangzhou. It has cultivated 43 percent of Guangzhou's seed enterprises, 40 agricultural leading enterprises at the national, provincial, city, and district levels, as well as 19 agricultural high-tech companies and 35 agricultural brands at the provincial level.

The modern agricultural intelligent equipment and solutions from Tianhe have been applied in dozens of countries and regions, providing rich technical support for the development of smart agriculture at home and abroad.