Research progress on intelligent equipment and information technology for livestock and poultry breeding

The modern livestock and poultry breeding industry in China has been rapidly developing towards scalization, facility, standardization and informatization. The research, development and application of intelligent farming equipment and information technology have become the key to promote healthy and sustainable development of livestock and poultry breeding industry. It is of great significance for improving the output efficiency, reducing the dependence on labor in the production process, and achieving green and high-quality transformational development of livestock and poultry breeding industry in China. To meet the needs of quality and safety of products, healthy management, and quality-efficiency improvement of large-scale livestock and poultry production, this paper mainly summarized the latest research and application progress of intelligent equipments and information technologies, including modularized assembled animal buildings and building-thermal environment coupling regulation technology, precise monitoring and intelligent controlling technology of farming environmental parameters, intelligent feeding, drinking and dosing equipment, automatic manure removal technology and equipment, real-time information collection and intelligent management technology etc. The weak links and bottlenecks for the development of intelligent equipment and information technology of livestock and poultry breeding industry were pointed out. The development direction of mechanization and intelligent equipment of livestock farm in China was prospected. This review provides a reference for the green and high-quality transformation and upgrading, healthy and sustainable development of livestock and poultry breeding industry in China.