2025 International Smart Agriculture Innovation Competition

Integrate cutting-edge technologies like AI, IoT, and big data into agricultural practices - paying homage to millennia-old farming civilization while mapping out the future of digital villages.

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Competition Theme

This competition features an open theme with no restrictions on content, soliciting innovative and creative smart agriculture projects with a global perspective. Submitted projects must address the diverse agricultural realities and key challenges faced by rural communities worldwide.

The fundamental goal is to significantly enhance agricultural production efficiency, improve the livelihoods and well-being of agricultural practitioners, and provide robust technological and project support for sustainable rural development plans in China and globally.

Participants & Awards

Student Track / Innovation Voyage Group

Participants

Students (including undergraduates, postgraduates and doctoral students) enrolled in colleges and vocational schools worldwide (including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan).

Awards

AwardDescriptionPrize
Grand Prize1 winnerUS$10,000
First Prize1 winnerUS$1,000
Second Prize1 winnerUS$500
Third Prize6 winnersHonorary certificate

Team Requirements

  • Participants must participate as a team, with each team consisting of no more than 5 members and 1 to 2 instructors.

  • The team must include at least 1 undergraduate student.

  • Cross-departmental, interdisciplinary, and inter-organizational collaboration is highly encouraged.

Open Track / Industry Practice Group

Participants

Enterprises, institutions, scientific research institutes, social organizations, independent developers and other individuals or teams committed to the innovation and practice of smart agriculture in the field of global smart agriculture.

Note: Teams that are mainly composed of students should choose the student track.

Incentives and opportunities

  • Honorary Certification: Outstanding projects will be awarded by the Smart Agriculture Branch of the China Association of Agricultural Science Societies.

  • Results display: Winning projects will have the opportunity to be publicly displayed or road showed at the "2025 Smart Agriculture Industry-Academia-Research Ecosystem Summit".

  • Matchmaking opportunities: The organizing committee will actively recommend outstanding projects to match with investment institutions, industrial parks, and partners.

  • Base demonstration: High-quality projects will have the opportunity to be demonstrated and displayed at the smart farm base of Huazhong Agricultural University.

  • Prize: There are no cash prizes for this track.

Team Requirements

  • Team-based participation is encouraged, with each team consisting of no more than 5 members.

  • Diverse team composition is encouraged.

  • The team can include students currently enrolled in academic institutions, but it is not mandatory.

Competition Process

Registration

2025.05.10 - 2025.05.31

Submission

2025.06.01 - 2025.08.10

Preliminary Competition

2025.08.11 - 2025.08.15

Preliminary results announcement

2025.08.16 - 2025.08.19

Final Competition

Smart Agriculture Branch Annual Conference 2025 (Exact dates to be determined)

Final results announcement and awards

Smart Agriculture Branch Annual Conference 2025 (Exact dates to be determined)

Competition Rules

Basic requirements for participation and works

  • Participants must complete registration within the officially specified period.

  • Entries must be legally compliant, positive, and free of inappropriate content or excessive commercial promotion.

  • Upon submission, participants grant the Organizing Committee non-exclusive rights to publicly display, compile, publish, promote, and disseminate the entries.

  • Entries should follow the open-source principles, award-winning projects will be displayed on relevant designated websites or platforms.

  • If the entries refer to or quote other people's works, codes, models, documents or third-party data, the source must be clearly indicated in the work description document.

Submission Specifications

  • When submitting their works, participating teams must provide a completed "Participating Team Personnel Information Registration Form", a detailed description document of the entry, a presentation PPT for displaying creative solutions, and other necessary supporting materials.

  • Please save all submissions in a compressed folder. The name format of the compressed file is: "Competition team name - work name". Please send the compressed file as an email attachment to the official designated email address of the competition: smartagri@mail.hzau.edu.cn. The email title format should be: "The 2025 International Smart Agriculture Creative Competition - Competition team name - work name".

Evaluation Mechanism

The evaluation of the entries will be carried out by a evaluation committee composed of senior experts, scholars and industry representatives in the field of smart agriculture invited by the competition organizing committee.

The review process will strictly follow the principles of "openness, fairness and impartiality".

Main evaluation indicators

  • Overall creativity and innovation

  • Application value and feasibility

  • Quality of description and presentation of works

Activity Background

At the beginning of 2025, Huazhong Agricultural University, together with a number of domestic leading institutions, jointly promoted the establishment of the Smart Agriculture Branch of the Chinese Society of Agricultural Science, aiming to build an innovative platform for the deep integration of industry, academia and research.

Under the guidance of the branch, Huazhong Agricultural University and Yunnan Agricultural University jointly hosted the "the Inaugural International Smart Agriculture Innovation Competition 2025", fully funded by Huazhong Agricultural University.

The "2025 Smart Agriculture Industry-Academia-Research Ecosystem Summit and Inaugural International Smart Agriculture Innovation Competition" will be held in Yunnan Agricultural University (Kunming) in August 2025.

Organizational Structure

Guidance Unit

Smart Agriculture Branch, Chinese Association of Agricultural Science Societies

Host Institutions

Huazhong Agricultural University, Yunnan Agricultural University

Organizing Institutions

  • College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University

  • Smart Agriculture Academy, Huazhong Agricultural University

  • College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, Yunnan Agricultural University

Contact Us

Guidance Unit

Smart Agriculture Branch, Chinese Association of Agricultural Science Societies

Host Institutions

Huazhong Agricultural University

Yunnan Agricultural University

Official QQ Group

908411780

Contact Person

Song Ci

Phone: 027-87282131

Official Email

smartagri@mail.hzau.edu.cn

Registration

Register for the competition by filling out the form below or by sending an email to: smartagri@mail.hzau.edu.cn