During this period, spring sowing is being carried out across the country from south to north, and it is expected that the area of spring sown grain will increase steadily this year. The latest agricultural dispatch from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs shows that currently, 4.4% of spring sown grain has been sown nationwide. In terms of crops, 53.1% of early rice seedlings have been raised, a slightly faster progress of 2.8 percentage points year-on-year, and 8.2% have been planted. 8.0% of the middle rice seedlings have been raised, and planting has begun in the southwest region. 3.2% of spring corn has been sown, 21.0% of potatoes have been sown, 9.3% of spring wheat has been sown, and 1.1% of spring soybeans have been sown.
At present, the southwest winter wheat is heading and flowering, the wheat areas in the central and southern Huanghuaihai and the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River are jointing and booting, and the northern Huanghuai and northwest wheat areas are in the greening stage. The overall growth of the seedlings is better than the previous year and better than normal.
More than 23 million units (sets) of agricultural machinery and equipment are put into spring plowing production
This year's spring planting, our country will focus on increasing grain production on a large area to increase unit yields, and strengthen the integrated supporting application of varieties, technologies and agricultural machinery.
In response to production-increasing technologies, major production areas have stepped up efforts to promote and apply high-performance machines.
During this year's spring plowing period, more than 23 million units (sets) of agricultural machinery and equipment are expected to be put into production across the country.
Inner Mongolia has issued the first round of central and autonomous region financial agricultural machinery purchase and application subsidies of 1.279 billion yuan in advance to expand the promotion and application of high-performance seeders. Spring wheat sowing has begun in the Hetao Irrigation Area. Yang Yonggang, a major grain grower, has purchased a new precision seeder with a linear sowing accuracy of less than 2 centimeters per kilometer, which greatly improves the sowing quality.
Yang Yonggang, leader of the second group of Guohai Village, Chengguan Town, Linhe District, Bayannur City, Inner Mongolia: The national agricultural machinery purchase subsidy policy has given our farmers benefits. The seeder can plant seeds with precision and the seedling emergence rate is high.
Anhui will focus on promoting intelligent and efficient agricultural machinery this year. Spring potato sowing in Mengcheng is in full swing. Thanks to the use of a new fully automatic planting machine, fertilizing, sowing, ridging and mulching are all integrated, and more than 10,000 acres of potatoes have been fully mechanized.
Liu Lixiang, a farmer in Huzhai Village, Yuefang Town, Mengcheng County, Anhui Province: The all-in-one potato planting machine can sow more than 4 acres in one hour, which is more than 20 times that of our manual labor. It can also achieve precise sowing and improve the sowing quality.
New sprinkler irrigation machine helps water-saving irrigation of high-standard farmland
In Huaxian County, Henan Province, an area of 1.6 million acres of efficient water-saving irrigation has been built, accounting for 80% of the local cultivated land area.
In the 500,000-acre concentrated contiguous high-standard farmland demonstration area, major grain growers use bi-wing translational automatic sprinkler irrigation machines. They adjust the nozzles according to moisture conditions to control the amount of water sprayed, which can save about one-third of water.
A number of newly developed small machines are put into use in spring plowing in hilly and mountainous areas
In addition, in some hilly and mountainous areas in the south, a variety of newly developed and suitable small machines have also been put into use to assist spring plowing and production.
Hunan has invested 470,000 units (sets) of various types of machines, more than half of which are suitable for hilly and mountainous areas. Plowing of rice fields has been carried out in the past few days. Liu Zhongcheng, a large grain grower in You County, drove small machines to the hilly land. After plowing, the land was even and flat, and the soil was looser.
Liu Zhongcheng, a major grain grower in You County, Hunan Province: In the past, plowing was done manually, which was costly and took a long time, making it impossible to complete large-area planting within the season. Now that mechanization has been achieved, the operating efficiency is more than 10 times that of manual labor. (CCTV News Client)