China News Service, Zhengzhou, March 13th: Visiting the post-disaster Henan wheat field spring management: Miao is optimistic about disaster prevention and stable production
Reporter Liu Peng
"These seedlings are evenly tillered, and the secondary root development has clearly reached the standard of a class of strong seedlings. I really did not expect to grow so well!" In a wheat field in Fandian Village, Shangle Village Town, Weihui City, Henan Province, Liu Guangliang leaned over and pulled up a plant. Maimiao said to reporters happily.
In late July 2021, due to heavy rainstorms, wheat planting in Henan Province, the main wheat producing area in China, was generally delayed, especially in Weihui, Junxian, Huaxian and other places in the flood storage and detention areas in northern Henan, which were severely affected.
Liu Guangliang, the head of Weihui Agricultural Technology Extension Station, checks the seedlings in the field.
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As the head of the Weihui Agricultural Technology Promotion Station, starting from the county town every morning to carry out agricultural technology guidance, it is Liu Guangliang's normal work.
Liu Guangliang said that because it is a flood storage and detention area, the flooded farmland in Weihui City looked like the sea at that time, and no one thought that the wheat was not only planted, but also growing so well.
At present, Liu Guangliang and 70 agricultural technicians in the city have implemented "one-to-five" services to 342 administrative villages, instructing farmers in all directions to implement policies for their seedlings.
In Daliushu Village, Yanjin County, the water, fertilizer and medicine integrated equipment is watering the wheat field.
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"With sufficient moisture content and a suitable climate, coupled with meticulous management, the city's overall seedling situation is optimistic, and the area of first-class seedlings has increased, which was not expected before." The continuous growth of wheat seedlings has brought confidence to Liu Guangliang, "It is expected The jointing period in late March can reach the level of the same period last year, and from the current seedling situation, there is no problem with maintaining stable wheat production."
Equally confident is Wang Xianzhu, a major grain grower in Fandian Village.
Standing in the vast wheat field, he said, from looking at the sea in the field half a year ago to now full of greenery, he feels that the harvest is getting closer and closer.
"The happiest thing now is to go down to the field to see my 63 mu of wheat. This summer's harvest will definitely not be lower than normal years!"
From despair to hope, behind it is refined scientific and technological guidance and precise field management.
In Fandian Village, Shangle Village Town, Weihui City, the wheat seedlings are growing optimistically at the turning green stage.
Photo by Liu Peng
In response to the outstanding situation of late-planting wheat and weak seedlings, the Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of Henan Province specially issued technical opinions on spring wheat field management, and compiled and printed 100,000 technical wall charts to distribute to the villages.
Yanjin County, located in the north of Henan Province, is rich in high-quality wheat and is known as "China's No. 1 wheat". The county's annual wheat sown area is about 1 million mu.
The reporter visited a wheat breeding base in Daliushu Village of the county. The self-propelled equipment integrating water, fertilizer and medicine is watering the wheat fields.
Zhang Xiangbo, the person in charge of the base, said, "Whether the wheat is harvested or not has a lot to do with management." In his opinion, when field management is equipped with the wings of technology, it will definitely bring greater protection to the harvest.
On the other side of Daliushu Village, villager Lao Li looked up from time to time while fertilizing the wheat and looked at it from time to time: "It's not bad, I can keep 600 kilograms per mu!" Looking at the vibrant green seedlings, he had a smile on his face.
In the wheat field of Fandian Village, Shangle Village Town, Weihui City, Wang Xianzhu cultivated soil for the wheat ridge.
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"The late sowing time of wheat due to rain in Henan is rare for decades, but the good news is that the seedlings are better than expected." Wang Chenyang, a researcher at Henan Agricultural University and executive director of the National Wheat Engineering Technology Research Center, believes that the late sowing of wheat seedlings in Henan In addition to climate, moisture and other factors, the main reason for the rapid transformation of sentiment is due to the high attention paid to it at the national level.
For example, from sowing to spring management, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and the Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs dispatched wheat supervisory groups to supervise each area, organized various technical trainings, and actively coordinated the supply of agricultural materials.
As a province with one-fourth of the country's annual wheat planting area, Henan not only has the reputation of "the granary of the Central Plains", but also plays an important role in ensuring the national food security strategy.
Recently, Song Huzhen, director of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of Henan Province, said in an interview with the media that in 2021, the wheat sown area in Henan will continue to stabilize at more than 85 million mu, which is the same as the average year.
Among them, the area of high-quality special wheat reached 16.28 million mu, an increase of 950,000 mu over the previous year.
Song Huzhen said that although the current situation of wheat seedlings in Henan is better than expected, it is still necessary to strengthen technical guidance and management in the later stage to ensure a bumper harvest of summer grain.
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