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• More than 75 percent of China's pastures are located in the arid area
of north China and the Qinghai-Tibet alpine region in west China,

home to about 8.37 million people, most of them ethnic minorities.

• Farming these pastures used to be very inefficient, as herdsmen

could not get timely and accurate information about the grasslands
and moving livestock.

• Technologists from the Institute of Agricultural Resources and
Regional Planning of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences

(CAAS) developed a digital farming system, providing monthly

information about grass growth, grassland yield and regional
droughts.

• They have also developed technologies and a smart phone app that

could help farmers obtain real-time information about the behavior

and diets of their livestock.

• The system could also help plan ranch production and precision
feeding.