In Xinjiang, a farmer can check soil moisture on a phone, send a drone to spray, and sell dried fruit on a livestream. Here’s the step-by-step, ...

Most visitors see Ili lavender as a purple backdrop for photos. Follow the flowers past the field edge and you find steam stills, steel drums of ...

Xinjiang's farms already use 5G, BeiDou, and drones. The next step is AI and autonomous machinery that can make decisions without a human in the loop. ...

At 5:40 a.m. he is on a satellite-guided tractor. By 4 p.m. he is sitting in a plastic chair, opening irrigation valves 12 kilometers away with ...

In Xinjiang, the cotton harvest once brought tens of thousands of seasonal pickers. Today, machines, drones, and drip irrigation have made the fields quieter—and changed rural ...

A detailed look at what a farmer in Xinjiang actually earns from growing processing tomatoes, with a breakdown of costs, yields, and real-world challenges. ...