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The 2026 Smart Agriculture Expo aims to empower new agricultural productivity through artificial intelligence and serve agricultural cooperation under the “Belt and Road” initiative.
China News Service, Nanning, October 23 (Huang Lingyan) On October 23, the 2026 Smart Agriculture Expo kicked off at the Nanning International Convention and Exhibition Center in Guangxi. This exhibition is hosted by the Foreign Economic Cooperation Center of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, with the theme of "Intelligent Agriculture and Digitally Connected Rural Areas".
The exhibition focuses on displaying the cutting-edge technological achievements of smart agriculture at home and abroad, building a professional platform for technical discussions, transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and docking of industrial supply and demand, using artificial intelligence to empower new agricultural productivity, serving the “Belt and Road” smart agricultural cooperation, and assisting regional agricultural modernization. The exhibition has three core sections: intelligent equipment, "artificial intelligence +" agriculture, and digital countryside, covering characteristic and advantageous industries such as grain and oil, sugar cane, fruits and vegetables, animal husbandry, and fishery.
More than a hundred companies from the United States, Germany, Israel and ASEAN countries participated in the exhibition, displaying nearly a thousand new technologies and products such as agricultural robots, intelligent irrigation systems, agricultural big data platforms, and agricultural intelligence. This exhibition invites 100 professional buyer groups from 20 countries and regions, and the number of visitors is expected to be nearly 20,000.
During the exhibition, a series of supporting activities will be held simultaneously, focusing on the entire industrial chain of smart planting, intensive processing of agricultural products, and cold chain warehousing, focusing on key directions such as full-process intelligent equipment for rice, digital services for agricultural inputs, intelligent management and control of agricultural enterprises, and intelligent farmland inspection agents. Special seminars, technical exchanges, and corporate promotions will be carried out, with an effort to create a window for external docking of my country's smart agricultural technology, equipment, and standards, and promote domestic digital agricultural innovation results to the ASEAN market.

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