High-tech agricultural machinery has helped farmers get better access to agricultural know-hows in south China's Guangdong Province.

He Zhihui, a farmer in Jiaoyi Village, Taishan City, has been growing rice and lotus roots for about eight years.

With the help of self-driving plowing tractors and drones spraying pesticides and herbicides, He is able to look after his 133 hectares of farmland around the time of the spring equinox, a major season for farming in China.

According to the data provided by the Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the rice fields plowed in spring this year are expected to exceed 800,000 hectares.

More than 450,000 sets of agricultural machinery will be put into use to ensure food security, with the proportion of new equipment and new technologies on the rise.