When Machines Start Raising Chickens: The Intelligent Revolution of the Egg Industry, How Long Can Your Chicken Coop "Live
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Sep 01,2025
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At a million-bird egg-laying chicken farm in East China, 21 smart chicken houses are monitoring 12 environmental parameters including temperature, humidity, and ammonia concentration in real-time through an IoT system. Such scenarios are being rapidly implemented nationwide —— As large-scale operations and intelligent technologies become deeply integrated, the China egg-laying chicken farming industry is undergoing a revolution from "human-led chicken farming" to "data-driven chicken farming".
1.Policy wind: the trumpet call of industrial upgrading in 2025
The Central Document No.1 explicitly incorporates digitalization in egg-laying chicken farming into the category of new agricultural productivity. Multiple regions have introduced special subsidy policies: newly built smart farms with over 500,000 birds can receive a 400,000 yuan reward, while digital environmental control equipment receives up to 30% subsidies. Driven by these policies, the industry's scale-up rate has surged from 45% in 2020 to 62% in 2024. Leading enterprises have achieved full-process data management through "Smart Livestock" projects.
2. Technology reconstruction: dual breakthroughs in intelligent devices and data algorithms
Data-driven decision making:
Smart farming platforms collect real-time environmental data and flock behavior metrics, while AI algorithms optimize feed distribution and disease prevention, reducing veterinary drug usage by 80%. A leading enterprise implemented IoT systems that cut per-chick annual carbon emissions by 5kg, boosting egg production rates to industry-leading levels.
Green sustainability:
The manure recycling technology achieves zero discharge, with the fermentation tank system processing 30,000 tons of manure annually and producing 20,000 tons of organic fertilizer. Under the mode of off-site fermentation bed + intelligent monitoring, each chicken reduces carbon dioxide emissions by 10kg per year, and some farms have obtained the EU organic certification.
3. Regional Practice: China's Path to Cluster Development
Eastern pattern:
A breeding base in East China has established a complete "feed-breeding-production-processing-marketing" industrial chain, processing 1.8 million eggs daily. Its sterile production line extends to deep-processed products like liquid egg and brine-processed eggs, achieving a 100% export compliance rate. Through the "company + farmers" model, this initiative has boosted annual income by 30,000 yuan for over 600 surrounding households.
Central Innovation:
Huazhong Egg Trading Center has achieved full automation in egg grading, testing, and packaging processes, with daily transactions exceeding 30,000 units and logistics costs reduced by 20%. The regional brand has consolidated 14 large-scale farms, achieving annual sales surpassing 800 million yuan while expanding product distribution to the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. V. Breakthrough Strategy: Building a Multi-stakeholder Collaborative Ecosystem
The enterprise level
Priority should be given to the core links of epidemic prevention and control and environmental control, so that equipment such as health inspection robots can recover their costs within 12 months. The innovative "equipment leasing + technical service" model will reduce the threshold of intelligence for small and medium-sized farmers.
From the "pail chicken" of free-range farmers to the "data-driven poultry farming" in smart chicken houses, the transformation of the egg-laying chicken industry is not only a technological iteration but also a vivid practice of rural revitalization. As 5G networks cover mountain chicken houses and blockchain records the "growth diary" of every egg, China's agriculture is writing a new chapter from tradition to modernity —— This transformation will enable small eggs to carry the grand dreams of modern agriculture.
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