Summer sowing progress | Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs: Over 80% of summer sowing grain progresses quickly and with high quality

CCTV News : The latest agricultural situation dispatch of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs shows that the current summer grain sowing in the country has exceeded 80%, and the progress is 1 percentage point faster than the same period last year.

  Summer sown grain crops account for more than one-third of autumn grains. At present, summer corn has been sown 85% nationwide, 1.3 percentage points faster than the same period last year. Middle rice has been planted 86.0%, 3.0 percentage points faster than the same period last year. While the progress has accelerated, the quality of sowing has also improved.

  Zhu Juan said that in the next step, we should continue to do a good job of planting and sweeping summer corn and middle rice to ensure that the planting is in the high-yield period. In addition, we must do a good job in planting and transplanting double-season late rice.