Zhongxin Finance, April 12 (Zuo Yuqing) "More than 80 people returned to the village today, and registration is being carried out one after another."

　　At noon on the 8th, Ding Wenfu, secretary of the Party branch of Xinglongchuan Village, Xiyang Town, Yongji County, Jilin City, Jilin Province, who had just organized the villagers to complete the 18th round of nucleic acid, hurried to the entrance of the village to welcome a new batch of returnees from spring farming.

　　"The east wind blows the green grass, and the cuckoo encourages spring ploughing." How to maintain spring ploughing under the epidemic is the top priority for Ding Wenfu and the whole village.

Xinglongchuan Village before spring ploughing.

Photo courtesy of the interviewee.

"Point-to-point" return home, "two points and one line" spring ploughing in the fields at home

　　Since the outbreak of a new round of the new crown epidemic in March, the situation of epidemic prevention and control in Jilin City, Changchun City and other places in Jilin Province has been relatively severe.

　　As an important granary in China, the area of ​​spring sowing in Northeast China accounts for half of the country. It can be said that by doing a good job of spring ploughing in Northeast China, we will have the initiative in the national spring sowing work, which will have a crucial impact on China's grain production this year.

　　"For those who want to return home, we have established a ledger to ensure that the bottom line is clear and the situation is clear." Ding Wenfu told Zhongxin Finance on the 8th that although Xinglongchuan Village is still under control, the preparation work is proceeding in an orderly manner.

　　In order to help the villagers return to their hometowns for spring ploughing smoothly, Xinglongchuan Village conscientiously communicated and interpreted the latest return-home policies to all returnees, actively contacted and guided the villagers to apply for return home as soon as possible under the premise of meeting the epidemic prevention requirements, and bought time for the preparation of farming. Bad farming time.

　　"Since April 5, many migrant workers and farmers have returned to the village one after another. Today, more than 80 people have returned to the village, and registration is being carried out one after another." Ding Wenfu said.

　　"The application submitted to the community on April 7 will be returned to the hometown on the 8th!" Tian Libo, a villager who returned home by car, is studying in Yongji County because of her child. She works in the county all the year round, and only returns to the village during the sowing and harvesting season.

　　Tian Libo told China-Singapore Finance that her family has about 10 mu of land, and all the corn she grows is commercial grain, with an annual output of about 25,000 catties.

"In previous years, I came back for spring farming in mid-April, and didn't leave until mid-May."

　　In order to ensure spring ploughing, Jilin Province recently issued the "Work Plan on Returning Spring Ploughing for Farmers Detained in Changji and Jilin Cities", which makes detailed regulations on the conditions for returning home, application procedures, personnel transfer, and management and control after returning home.

Changchun City and Jilin City are speeding up the issuance of passes for farmers stranded in the two cities.

　　On April 8 and April 9, Jilin City conducted a centralized transfer in two batches for the farmers who were stranded in Jilin City and returned to Changchun City and those who returned home from Changchun City and 7 other cities and prefectures for spring ploughing. The demands of farmers to return home.

　　According to the specific implementation plans for stranded farmers returning to their hometowns for spring ploughing announced by Changchun and Jilin cities, those returning home by car can pass by with the "Passport for Returning Spring Ploughing Persons"; for centralized transporters, vehicles will be organized in batches to the designated centralized transport point to return to the hometown. Township personnel pick up point-to-point.

"Jilin City People's Pass for Spring Farming Returnees".

Photo courtesy of the interviewee

　　Ding Wenfu said that nowadays, farmers who go out to work generally choose to work nearby, so there is no major difficulty in returning home.

"The village helped to coordinate the relevant departments of the local community and other relevant departments to apply for the pass. After I arrived at the card point with the pass, the village cadres would pick up and release the card at the checkpoint. I didn't get off the car throughout the whole process, and went home point-to-point to ensure timely and safe return to my hometown for farming."

　　According to the regulations of Xinglongchuan Village, farmers returning home from Yongji County can directly invest in spring ploughing, but they must strictly abide by the "two points and one line" action in the fields at home, and are not allowed to go out to participate in gathering activities without authorization; Farmers need to isolate themselves at home for 7 days, and conduct nucleic acid tests on the 2nd, 4th, and 7th days respectively, and they can participate in spring ploughing only after the test results are all negative.

Returning farmers from home quarantine are registering.

Photo courtesy of the interviewee.

　　For Ding Wenfu, there is also good news. At present, after more than a month of hard fighting, the epidemic situation in Jilin City and Jiutai District of Changchun City has been eliminated. low risk areas.

Online procurement of agricultural materials, contactless point-to-point delivery

　　The problem of spring plowing personnel has been alleviated. How to ensure the necessary agricultural materials such as seeds and fertilizers?

　　In Liaoning Province, an agriculture-related person from Huanren Manchu Autonomous County, Benxi City told China-Singapore Finance that although the current logistics channel is not smooth due to the closure and control of the epidemic, the impact on the preparation of agricultural materials is small.

　　"In fact, as early as the Spring Festival, most farmers have already started to prepare agricultural materials for spring ploughing." The person said that because the prices of agricultural materials such as seeds and fertilizers are cheaper before the Spring Festival, most farmers will choose to prepare in advance.

"If it takes only two days to start preparing agricultural materials, it may be affected a little bit."

　　However, according to the local sowing habit of "growing fields with grain rain", corn is planted in late April to early May, and rice is planted in early June, so there is still time to prepare agricultural materials.

Data map: The drone is spraying water and medicine on the corn field.

Photo by Zuo Yuqing

　　Ding Wenfu told Zhongxin Finance that online procurement has become the main channel for agricultural materials in Xinglongchuan Village.

"The village actively provides farmers with contact information for reputable agricultural materials stores, and encourages farmers to purchase seeds, fertilizers and other materials online through WeChat, telephone and other methods. For the elderly and other people who cannot operate, the village will understand the ideas of the masses after , to help with purchasing.”

　　"The price of seeds has risen a little this year, not too much. The price of fertilizers, diesel oil, and agricultural film has risen by a large margin, mainly because of the rise in raw materials." Ding Wenfu told Zhongxin Finance that compared with the same period last year, the price of fertilizers rose by more than 40%.

　　After the purchased agricultural materials arrived, Xinglongchuan Village adopted a contactless method to deliver point-to-point delivery to the epidemic prevention and control card point in the village. The staff on duty at the card point notified the farmers one by one, and went to retrieve them at the wrong time to avoid crowd gathering. , disabled households and other special groups, arranged by the village to send them to farmers' homes.

　　"Up to now, the household rate of rice seeds in Xinglongchuan Village has reached 100%, the rate of corn seeds has reached 93.7%, and the rate of chemical fertilizer households has reached 77.8%." Ding Wenfu said, "In the past few days, farmers have been building greenhouses one after another. The rice seeds are being soaked, and it is expected to start planting and raising seedlings in the shed around April 11; the sowing period of corn and soybeans will be in the middle and late April, which means that the dry fields will be ready for ploughing in seven or eight days."

In the large arms breeding cooperative in Tuanjie Village, Caiyuanzi Town, Dehui City, Jilin Province, farmers are preparing to raise seedlings.

Photo courtesy of the interviewee

Why this year's spring ploughing has attracted more attention than previous years?

　　"This year's grain production is facing a situation where natural risks and market risks coexist." Tan Zhixin, an associate researcher at the Rural Economic Research Center of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, said in an interview with the media that due to the impact of the epidemic and fluctuations in the international market, domestic grain supply and stable prices are under great pressure. .

　　"In March, the FAO grain price index rose by 17.1% month-on-month." The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization released a report on the 8th that the conflict between Russia and Ukraine led to a sharp rise in world food commodity prices in March, reaching the highest level in history.

　　Russia and Ukraine together have accounted for about 30 percent of global wheat exports and 20 percent of corn exports over the past three years.

The Russian-Ukrainian conflict has seriously exacerbated global food insecurity, and the World Food Program even warned that 2022 will be a catastrophic year of hunger, with 44 million people in 38 countries teetering on the brink of famine.

　　In order to avoid a "food crisis", some countries such as Japan are buying grain from the international market, while some countries are taking measures to give priority to ensuring the supply of domestic agricultural products, even at the expense of controlling grain exports to ensure domestic food security.

　　"No matter how the international situation changes, we have the ability to ensure that the 1.4 billion Chinese people will have their meals on time every day without going hungry, and their jobs will become more stable and better." This was the statement during the two sessions.

　　On March 25, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and the Ministry of Finance clarified the key tasks of grain production and a package of support policies in 2022: a one-time subsidy will be issued to farmers who actually grow grain to alleviate the impact of increased expenditure on grain production caused by rising prices of agricultural materials; implementation of corn and soybeans Producer subsidies and rice subsidies, appropriately increase the minimum purchase price of rice and wheat; implement corn and soybean ribbon compound planting subsidies to support the compatible development of soybean and corn, and so on.

　　On March 28, more than ten departments including the National Development and Reform Commission jointly issued a notice to enhance the domestic fertilizer production and supply capacity, improve the transport capacity of fertilizers and their raw materials, ensure the supply of fertilizers and the smooth operation of the market, support spring agricultural production, and consolidate summer crops. Harvest basis.

　　In Ding Wenfu's view, food prices have remained basically the same in the past two years.

Compared with previous years, this year's planting period has not been delayed at all. It is not expected to affect the harvest of grains, and the grain output will not be greatly affected.

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