spring ploughing is underway in wulate front banner of bayannaoer city, north china's inner mongolia autonomous region.
a total of 12 automated unmanned seed planters have been adopted, replacing manual seed planting, as a means to raise efficiency, while keeping precision.
the machines are powered by the satellite of the beidou navigation satellite system.
farmers could set up a working pattern, including ploughing speed, area, and density, for the planter before it starts to work.
these unmanned seed planters can seed about 6.7 hectares of farmland this year.