China News Service, Nanning, March 20th, topic: Visiting the main grain producing areas in Guangxi: the price of agricultural materials has risen and many measures have been taken to ensure spring ploughing production
Author Lin Hao, Zeng Jing, Lai Huaqi
"This year, affected by various factors, the prices of fertilizers and other agricultural materials have risen sharply. However, by improving the level of mechanized operations and introducing high-quality hybrid fragrant rice varieties, we have reduced the cost of seedling raising, farming, and fertilization, and increased production and production costs. Benefiting from the benefits, the enthusiasm of the villagers for spring ploughing has been improved, and the rice planting area has increased by 300 mu compared with last year, reaching about 2,000 mu." Zheng Chenggong, chairman of the Binyang Lianfeng Agricultural Machinery Service Farmer Professional Cooperative in Nanning City, Guangxi, told reporters on the 20th.
Binyang County is a major agricultural county and one of the main grain producing areas in Guangxi. It is known as the "National Commodity Grain Base County" and the National "Quality Grain Project" Action Demonstration County. The annual output is more than 353,000 tons. In the past few days, a reporter from Chinanews.com visited the local spring ploughing preparation.
The picture shows that agricultural material distributors increase the reserves of chemical fertilizers and other materials. Photo by Lin Hao
In the paddy fields where Zheng Chenggong's cooperatives circulated, the machines roared loudly, and the ploughing team composed of five ploughers worked in an orderly manner at the same time, and soon the wasteland was leveled. A scene of busy work.
Zheng Chenggong said that in recent years, the state has increased the incentives and support for the main grain producing areas and grain farmers, and issued a series of subsidy policies to benefit farmers, so that the large grain farmers have tasted the sweetness and their enthusiasm for grain planting has been greatly improved.
This spring rice, the cooperative currently adopts modern mechanized operations on 2,000 mu of farmland, and it is expected that all the mechanized planting tasks can be completed within a week.
However, compared with last year, this year's fertilizer price has increased from about 2,500 yuan per ton to more than 4,000 yuan due to factors such as rising international commodity prices.
Li Zongnan, manager of the Fertilizer Management Department of Wangke Fertilizer in Binyang County, told reporters that in order to cope with the peak demand for fertilizers and mitigate the adverse effects of rising prices, the company raised funds in various ways and reserved a batch of supplies, and the daily fertilizer sales were about 300 tons.
Zhang Yingji, head of Binyang Kaida Agricultural Machinery Co., Ltd., also said that in the face of the adverse impact of factors such as rising fertilizer prices, in order to reduce production costs, local farmers have gradually increased their enthusiasm for purchasing agricultural machinery, such as rice transplanters and small walking tractors. , forklifts and other mechanical products are favored.
The picture shows farmers buying rice transplanters for spring plowing photo by Lin Hao
Today, the major agricultural households in Binyang County have gradually extended the industrial chain from pure rice planting to seedling raising, processing, and sales to cope with market changes.
Fang Yongying, assistant director of the Bureau of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of Binyang County, introduced that Binyang County promotes large-scale planting, standardized production, industrialized operation, and branded sales of high-quality rice. demand for agricultural materials and irrigation water.
Zhang Xianqi, President of the Binyang County Branch of the Agricultural Bank of China, also said that since the beginning of this year, Binyang County has had a strong demand for spring ploughing and preparation funds. Capital and agricultural machinery have been extended to agricultural power, etc., and more than 50 million yuan of credit funds have been put in.
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