[New Year Chronicle] Raoyang, Hebei: Agricultural technicians are busy in the fields

  On January 28th, on the 26th day of the twelfth lunar month, Song Changjiang, a specially hired agricultural technician from Dayincun Town, Raoyang County, Hebei Province, came to Song Erqing's greenhouse in Nanbeiyan Village early to help him provide early disease prevention guidance for tomatoes.

The Spring Festival is approaching. In order to ensure the efficient supply of vegetables after the festival and guide the scientific planting of vegetable farmers, the Raoyang County Agriculture and Rural Bureau selected more than 10 specially-appointed agricultural technicians including Song Changjiang to go deep into the fields to provide technical guidance for the growers.

  In recent years, Raoyang County has vigorously developed the facility vegetable industry relying on the advantages of transportation location and characteristic agriculture.

At present, the county's facility vegetable planting area reaches 340,000 mu, with an annual output of 2.4 million tons of various vegetables and an annual output value of 2.26 billion yuan.

It has successively won a number of national honors such as "National Vegetable Standard Garden Creation County", "National Pollution-Free Vegetable Standardization Production Base" and "China's Vegetable Township". The market share of high-quality agricultural products in Beijing and Tianjin reaches 15%.

(Cui Zhiping, Li Yanfen, Cui Jiadong and Wu Rui)

Responsible editor: [Zhang Xi]