Complementing stable material supplies, advanced agricultural technology has helped China mitigate the impact of natural disasters and lift grain yields, helping secure a resilient autumn harvest.

　　Henan, a key grain-producing province in central China, has leveraged drone monitoring and smart field management to improve disaster response after Typhoon Dolphin struck in August. Rather than sending teams to inspect fields on foot, researchers use surveillance drones to send real-time soil and waterlogging data to smart platforms. This allows fast drainage and targeted loss control.

　　Wang Qiang, an associate professor at Henan Agricultural University, led the practice at an agricultural demonstration park, deploying drones to assess damage instead of wading into fields. His smart farm project in Luohe City of Henan, uses patrol drones to stream real-time field data to a smart management platform. "We spot waterlogged areas and activate drainage promptly to curb losses," Wang said.

　　He added that agricultural demonstration sites nationwide let farmers test new technologies on the ground. These projects speed up the upgrade of China"s farm machinery fleet and make it smarter.

　　A farmer operates an agricultural machine equipped with BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) in a soybean field in northeast China"s Heilongjiang Province, June 13, 2026. (Photo by Qian Boyu/Xinhua)

　　The province has achieved a 90-percent comprehensive mechanization rate for crop planting and harvesting, with wheat and corn production fully mechanized.

　　Nationwide, BeiDou-guided autonomous tractors, intelligent seeders, automated water-fertilizer irrigation systems and straw balers now cover the entire planting, management and harvesting cycle, powering precision farming.