SDG #1: No Poverty

SDG#1.5
By 2030, enhance the resilience of the poor and vulnerable to disasters, and reduce their exposure and vulnerability to extreme weather events and other economic, social, and environmental shocks and disasters.

OUR ACTIONS
Our project aims to assist farmers in more effectively managing their fields and increasing their economic income. In the initial stages, our primary focus has been on promotion and interviews to gain a deeper understanding of the current situation, which we have incorporated into the design of our project.

FUTURE PLAN
Our project will help farmers more effectively manage their fields, providing them with better planting guidance to enhance their economic income through cultivation. Additionally, by introducing easily recognizable color indicators in the fields, individuals without prior knowledge have the opportunity to participate and earn income through labor, thereby creating new sources of revenue.

SDG #2: ZERO HUNGER

SDG#2.1
By 2030, end hunger and ensure that all people, especially the poor and vulnerable, including infants, have access to safe, nutritious, and sufficient food all year round.

SDG#2.3
By 2030, double the agricultural productivity and incomes of small-scale food producers, particularly women, indigenous peoples, farmers, and fishermen, including through secure and equal access to land, other productive resources and inputs, knowledge, financial services, markets, and opportunities for value addition and non-farm employment.

SDG#2.4
By 2030, ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production, help maintain ecosystems, strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding, and other disasters, and progressively improve land and soil quality.

OUR ACTIONS
We grew up on the land where hybrid rice was born in Hunan, and we are particularly concerned about the issue of poverty eradication. We have conducted multiple visits to the LongPing Rice Museum and organized thematic presentations, aiming to educate more people about the production process and importance of food. Furthermore, our project seeks to characterize land drought levels, making it easier to provide planting references for farmers. This will help food crops have more suitable water conditions throughout their growth cycle, resulting in increased yields.

FUTURE PLAN
We aspire to conduct more practical experiments in the fields, turning our project into an effective tool. It will help promote precision agriculture, ultimately leading to healthier crops and increased food production on limited arable land, gradually contributing to poverty eradication.
Our project can also aid in transforming lands that are challenging to cultivate directly for food production and assist researchers in understanding changes in soil water retention and storage, thereby expanding arable land.

SDG #6: Clean Water and Sanitation

SDG#6.3
By 2030, improve water quality by reducing pollution, eliminating dumping of waste, minimizing the release of hazardous chemicals and materials, halving the proportion of untreated wastewater, and substantially increasing recycling and safe reuse globally.

SDG#6.4
By 2030, substantially increase water-use efficiency across all sectors and ensure sustainable withdrawals and supply of freshwater to address water scarcity and substantially reduce the number of people suffering from water scarcity.

OUR ACTIONS
Our project uses color representation to indicate the level of soil dryness. We have found that this feasible indicator, employed at different time periods and growth stages, helps us better control the amount of irrigation and reduces indiscriminate watering.

FUTURE PLAN
Once our project is practically applied to the land, irrigation under different geographical and soil conditions will become more precise and accurate. This will aid management personnel in making more accurate choices regarding irrigation methods, enhancing resilience, and reducing water resource wastage. Additionally, preventing excessive water from leaching out of the soil contributes to the growth of plants, reduces ineffective fertilization, and prevents degradation of water quality in the environment.

SDG #12: Responsible Consumption and Production

SDG#12.3
By 2030, halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reduce food losses along production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses.

OUR ACTIONS
We are considering providing effective solutions for sustainable and precision agriculture. Currently, we have a preliminary understanding and overview of the overall situation, and we aim to gather more data.

FUTURE PLAN
Optimal irrigation practices can significantly increase yields and improve the quality of crops in both sustainable and precision agriculture. As a result, we plan to quantify various parameters throughout the entire production cycle to better validate and implement our project.

SDG #13: Climate Action

SDG#13.1
Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries.

SDG#13.3
Improve education, awareness-raising, and capacity-building on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction, and early warning.

OUR ACTIONS
We have consistently taken action on climate change! We have expanded our influence through educational activities, outreach, surveys, and interviews, inviting more young people to participate. We have collaborated with the youth innovation practice group "Power Station of Youth" (led by our team member Jiazhou Ni) to design courses and projects that help younger friends gain preliminary knowledge of climate issues.

FUTURE PLAN
We aim to combine our actions with our projects to broaden our impact, further addressing the crisis of mitigating climate change. Simultaneously, we will continue to align with the goals and methods of the SDGs initiative, serving as a demonstration of effective climate action.

SDG #15: Life on Land

SDG#15.3
By 2030, efforts will be made to combat desertification, restore degraded land and soil, including land affected by desertification, drought, and flooding, with the aim of establishing a world free from land degradation.

SDG#15.a
Mobilize resources from various channels and significantly increase financial resources for the protection and sustainable utilization of biodiversity and ecosystems.

OUR ACTIONS
The primary working environment for our project is arable land. It is a relatively fragile terrestrial ecosystem. By introducing indicator genes from various plants, we can enhance the biodiversity of the arable land at a macro level, bringing about new changes in the stability of this land.

FUTURE PLAN
Through effective irrigation, we aim to expedite the process of land restoration in areas affected by desertification. This will allow for more efficient resource utilization, protecting the existing soil systems and reducing the loss of water and nutrients. Consequently, our goal is to help establish stable ecosystems with rich biodiversity.