Chinanews.com, Meishan, December 21 (Wang Liwen, Yue Yitong) In winter, in a "rice and shrimp symbiosis" base in Jinguang Village, Dongpo District, Meishan City, Sichuan Province, Wan Gang, a 34-year-old farmer, is working with several workers to store water in the field for Prepare for a good harvest in the coming year.
He graduated from a university majoring in modern agricultural technology, and returned to his hometown in 2016 to explore the "rice and shrimp symbiosis" model.
At present, the average annual output of the land he contracted is 300 catties of crayfish and 1,200 catties of rice per mu.
A new type of "professional farmer" Wan Gang returned to his hometown to explore the "rice and shrimp symbiosis" model.
Photo courtesy of interviewee Wan Gang
In Sichuan, the "Land of Abundance", there are more and more new-type professional farmers like Wan Gang who lean over the fields with their skills and feelings. They skillfully integrate their professional skills with the land under their feet, and use innovation to empower industrial development.
The rise of new professional farmers is just a microcosm of Sichuan's efforts to create a higher level of "Tianfu Granary" in the new era. After the "overweight" of talents and technology, the land of Bashu is fertile and full of vitality.
"Most of these talents come from villages and towns, and they have a natural sense of closeness to the land. They understand agriculture, know agriculture, and love agriculture. They can sink and stay on the front line of agriculture, rural areas and farmers, and the knowledge and skills they have learned are also very practical." Meishan Occupation Dai Xianjun, Secretary of the Party Committee of the Technical College, said that as one of the first three colleges and universities in Sichuan Province to pilot new-type professional farmers, the college has carried out related trainings in pastoral stars, agricultural managers, new-type professional farmers, and grass-roots agricultural technicians in recent years. More than 20,000 people.
As the potential for agricultural development continues to emerge, more and more students choose to major in agriculture.
In order to make students more "down-to-earth", Meishan Vocational and Technical College combines teaching content with production practice, directly links learning tasks with field production tasks, and the classroom and field teaching time is 1:1.
Wei Wenwu, director of the agricultural teaching and research section of the school, gave an example, "In the course of understanding pests and diseases, we require students to go to the fields to find and catch insects, and identify and analyze pests and diseases through practical operations."
Teachers and students of Meishan Vocational and Technical College are carrying out teaching practice.
Photo by Chen Hang
After personally cultivating morels in the edible fungus cultivation course, Wang Jieping, a student of the Agricultural Technology Department of Meishan Vocational and Technical College, had an inspiration: Can this technology be applied to his own grape fields?
"You can use the vacant period after the vineyard is cleared in October every year to plant morels to help your family increase production and income." Growing up in the countryside, he has feelings for the land, and working with the soil every day also makes him feel "reliable", "In the future, I want to engage in agricultural related work, so that you will reap the rewards you sow."
In Yongfeng Village, Taihe Town, Dongpo District, Meishan City, 3,100 mu of high-standard farmland is the first in Sichuan Province to realize the mechanized production of rice in the whole process of "ploughing, planting, sowing and harvesting".
As one of the most standardized high-standard farmland demonstration models in Sichuan, it is inseparable from the "overweight" of professional talents and innovative technologies. Many technologies participated in the research and development of Meishan Vocational and Technical College are also used in this farmland.
According to reports, more than 30 technologies, including the machine-directed direct-seeding rice "full buds and whole seedlings" technology, chemical fertilizer reduction technology, and pesticide reduction technology, have been "blossoming and bearing fruit" in many towns in Meishan, saving a total of 75.3863 million yuan in costs. (RMB, the same below), accumulatively increased income and reduced expenditure by 205.3146 million yuan.
In Dai Xianjun's view, vocational education is not only an important supplier, server, and supporter of technology and talents, but also plays a unique role in the transformation, application, and promotion of technology, connecting basic scientific research to reality. bridge between production.
Teachers and students of Meishan Vocational and Technical College are carrying out teaching practice.
Photo by Chen Hang
Sichuan, a large western province, is focusing on the revitalization of the seed industry to strengthen agricultural technology innovation, using parks as a carrier to promote the construction of a modern agricultural system, and using the two key "keys" of technology and talents to boost agricultural development and create a new situation.
"Farming is no longer the same as facing the loess and the sky, but a decent profession that can realize value and create value without leaving home." Standing in the 400-acre paddy field, Wan Gang is full of longing and confidence for the future. He points forward, "In the past, three workers took three hours to complete the feeding work, and drones can solve it in half an hour. I plan to use five years to expand the current production area of more than 400 mu to 2,000 mu, and contribute more to the construction of my hometown. "(use up)