Imagine sipping a cup of tea 🍵 picked straight from 300-year-old trees in Yunnan, while watching the mist roll over the mountains in real time on your screen. Welcome to the future of agri-trade! Thanks to an AI-backed source tracking system developed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), small-scale growers from across the globe are showcasing their goods like never before.
At this year’s Chinese mainland International Fair for Trade in Services, tea farmer Jie Bulu from the Jinuo, one of the smallest ethnic minority groups in the Chinese mainland, set up a virtual booth for his prized harvest. Visitors could dial in via live footage to explore his tea gardens in Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture and assess the quality of each leaf 🍃 in real time.
But it’s not just tea—coffee farmers from Panama poured visitors a taste of their finest beans ☕️, while vanilla growers from Papua New Guinea joined the scene with fragrant pods. Harunur Rashid, deputy secretary of Bangladesh’s Ministry of Agriculture, even showcased surplus tropical fruits 🍌 that his country is eager to export.
Farmers and officials interviewed on site shared the same hope: this AI-backed platform can break down barriers, opening doors to new buyers and better incomes. Nelson Simbiken, director general of the National Agricultural Research Institute of Papua New Guinea, highlighted how the tech connects remote farms to global markets with just a click.
By blending cutting-edge AI with live video and data analytics, this platform is more than a digital marketplace—it’s a storytelling stage that puts growers front and center. From the tea terraces of Yunnan to coffee estates in Central America, technology is weaving a new narrative for agricultural trade 🤝🌍.
As the agri-tech wave grows, keep an eye on these digital farm tours: they’re not just cool to watch, they’re changing lives one stream at a time! 🚀
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China's AI-backed source tracking system benefits global farmers
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