China News Service, Changchun, December 6 (Reporter Lu Shengnan) Jilin Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs announced on the 6th that the province’s total grain output this year was 80.784 billion catties, ranking fifth in the country; total grain output increased by 4.724 billion over the previous year The net increase was ranked second in the country; the grain yield was 941.3 jin/mu, an increase of 48.7 jin/mu over the previous year, and the yield continued to rank fourth in the country.

　　Jilin Province is located in one of the three major black soil regions in the world. It is an important commodity grain production base in China and shoulders the important responsibility of ensuring national food security.

　　In 2021, the sown area of ​​grain in Jilin Province will be 85,819,500 mu, an increase of 592,800 mu over the previous year, laying a solid foundation for the increase in grain output.

　　According to the Jilin Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the area affected by drought, floods, wind and hail and other crops in Jilin Province this year was only 737,000 mu, which was less than 4% of the area affected by the disaster in the previous year.

A total of 16.029 million mu of pests and diseases of major food crops occurred, a year-on-year decrease of 19.6%, and the occurrence and damage were relatively minor.

　　It is understood that Jilin Province will focus on promoting 49 main agricultural technologies and 115 leading varieties this year. The coverage rate of good varieties of main crops has remained 100%, and the area of ​​promotion of conservation tillage technologies reached 28.75 million mu, an increase of 55.2% over the previous year.

　　According to the Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of Jilin Province, the province continues to promote soil testing and formula fertilization technology. The province has completed 75,000 soil sample collections and tests, 810 fertilizer field trials, and established fertilizer reduction and efficiency demonstration areas (regions) with an area of ​​more than 400,000 mu.

More than 1.5 million acres of green prevention and control technologies such as biological control of rice stem borers and sex pheromone control of rice stem borers have been carried out, and more than 900,000 acres of pilot demonstration areas have been carried out for flying control of rice diseases and insect pests.

　　Data shows that before the autumn harvest, Jilin Province is preparing 80,200 sets of autumn corn combine harvesters, 33,100 rice and wheat combine harvesters, 4,400 peanut harvesters, 1,100 soybean harvesters, and 800 potato harvesters, and completed the maintenance of 279.6 agricultural machinery and equipment. Ten thousand sets (sets) to ensure that the particles are returned to the warehouse.

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