[Rural Revitalization] Dingxi, Gansu, has built a "seed potato" resource bank: Potatoes are upgraded to become "rich potatoes"
[Explanation] Dingxi City, Gansu Province is one of the best potato growing areas in China and even the world. Potatoes have been grown here for more than 200 years. The former "life-saving potato" has gradually played the role of "rich potato" in recent years.
Weiyuan County in Dingxi was named the "Hometown of Chinese Potato Varieties". The local area signed a scientific and technological cooperation agreement with the International Potato Center (CIP), established the first workstation of the International Potato Center in the Asia-Pacific region, built a potato germplasm bank, and introduced high-quality seeds. There are 160 qualitative resources, and the protection of germ plasm resources, variety selection and breeding and breeding of improved varieties have been carried out.
A few days ago, Liu Rong, director of the Agriculture and Rural Bureau of Dingxi City, introduced to reporters that Dingxi was recognized as the first batch of regional potato seed breeding bases in the country. The breeding system of virus-free seed potatoes.
The city has an annual output of more than 2 million tons of virus-free seed potatoes and more than 1 billion original seeds, which are exported to Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Egypt, Nicaragua and other countries, solving the practical problem of difficult sales.
[Concurrent] Liu Rong, Director of Agriculture and Rural Bureau of Dingxi City, Gansu Province
Do a good job in the protection, cultivation, demonstration and promotion of seed resources to ensure that our industries can achieve improved varieties, to achieve quality stability through improved varieties, to achieve high-quality varieties, and to ensure that our agricultural products can solve the difficult selling problem through processing and transformation. problem.
[Explanation] In the beginning of the "14th Five-Year Plan", Dingxi officials proposed a standardized production level improvement plan, that is, to play the role of the potato-related research team to solve the bottleneck problems such as mole disease and scab that restrict the development of the potato industry in the city, and deepen the modernization. The application and promotion of information, network, and intelligent technology in potato production, processing, and circulation will improve the informatization and digitalization of the entire industry chain.
Qi Yonghe, head of the Anding District of Dingxi City, said that the district relies on leading seed potato and processing enterprises to promote the standardized technology of "detoxified seeds + black film coverage + formula fertilization + mechanical farming + pest prevention and control" to break the boundaries of towns, villages and communities. Establish a standardized planting base of more than 500,000 mu of concentrated and contiguous seed potatoes, fresh potatoes, and processed potatoes each year.
[Concurrent] Qi Yonghe, Chief of Anding District, Dingxi City, Gansu Province
In terms of the potato industry, one is to increase the development of the potato seed industry, rapidly expand the scale of the potato seed industry, and improve the quality of the seed industry.
The second aspect is to continue to promote the intensive processing of the potato industry, vigorously develop modified starch and staple food products based on refined starch, and increase the overall added value of the potato industry.
[Explanation] Di Shengkui, deputy secretary of the Dingxi Municipal Party Committee, confessed to reporters that Dingxi must not only solve the problems of large-scale, scientific, and low standardization of planting, but also work hard in the processing links and seed intellectual property rights to transform one production into two production.
[Concurrent] Di Shengkui, Deputy Secretary of Dingxi Municipal Party Committee, Gansu Province
To solve the problem of agricultural stuck neck, that is, to solve the problem of intellectual property rights in our seed field, so for us in Dingxi, to develop our potato seed industry, to further breed the potato seed industry, to multiply and expand.
Dingxi's potato pellets and potato seed potatoes are counted as the original seed by the seed, and the current annual output has reached 1 billion seeds.
[Explanation] At present, Dingxi City has established 28 leading potato processing enterprises with more than 10,000 tons, including two national key leading enterprises, with a processing capacity of 860,000 tons. The processed products mainly include whole flour, modified starch, puffed food, and staple food products. And so on, the formation of "eat dry and squeeze out" type of circular chain.
Li Yalong Zhang Jing reports from Dingxi, Gansu
Editor in charge: [Zhang Kaixin]