Xinxiang, 6 June -- Question: The streets of the village are full of golden yellow in the "picture" of wheat drying in northern Yubei
China News Network reporter Han Zhangyun
At present, the center of gravity of the "Central Plains Granary" Henan wheat harvest has moved across the Yellow River to the northern Yu region, taking advantage of the good weather, in Xinxiang County, Yubei, drying scenes everywhere, full of golden eyes.
In front of the house and behind the house, on both sides of the road, in the cultural square, in the courtyard of the water plant... During the mango planting season, a reporter from Chinanews.com walked into the county and saw that local villagers made full use of various sites to dry wheat.
Xinxiang County, Henan Province, an important wheat breeding base north of the Yellow River, has 20,<> mu of seed breeding fields, and local villagers are accustomed to ensuring the safety of wheat seeds through traditional ventilation and drying. This year's wheat harvest season Henan has a lot of rainfall, and the newly harvested wheat is generally humid, and drying has become an important part of the wheat harvest work.
The picture shows wheat drying next to a rural road in Xinxiang County. Photo by Han Zhangyun
"This is 6 mu of wheat harvested on June 5, and it was pulled out to dry at dawn today." Early in the morning, Liu Yanchun, a villager in Dongjinglou Village in Xinxiang County, was drying wheat by the village road, and he carefully spread the wheat with a rake.
Liu Yanchun told reporters, "It rained for two days this weekend, the wheat was humid, fortunately there was no germination and mildew, and the weather forecast said that these days were all sunny days, and the wheat could be returned to the warehouse after drying it quickly."
Driving all the way, the reporter saw villagers holding rakes or shovels on both sides of the roads of many villages and towns in Xinxiang County, spreading and drying the wheat over and over again. As noon approached, temperatures climbed above 30°C, but a large number of farmers were still visible outside.
In the courtyard of the Langgongmiao centralized water supply plant in Xinxiang County, Zhao Xinling, an employee of the water plant, used his lunch break to help Zhao Yongshun, a 70-year-old farmer, bag and load the sun-dried wheat into bags.
The picture shows villagers in Dazhaozhuang Village, Qiliying Town, Xinxiang County, drying wheat in the Cultural Square. Photo by Han Zhangyun
"After the wheat harvest started this year, the water plant opened its doors to farmers to come in and dry their grain, and now three families are drying wheat in the compound and four wheat outside the yard." Zhao Xinling told reporters, "This year's wheat harvest season has a lot of rain, the harvested wheat humidity is relatively large, the demand for drying is large, many villagers are worried about the wheat drying site, the water plant opened its doors for the first time to allow farmers to come in to dry grain, and the water plant staff also took the initiative to help farmers spread and collect wheat during the rest time."
In the cultural square of Dazhaozhuang Village, Qiliying Town, in the county, villager Zhang Qingyong and his wife are busy turning wheat, a 3000,<>-square-meter cultural square covered with wheat, and the sun is full of golden eyes, which is particularly dazzling.
"I flipped through the wheat for an hour to get it to dry quickly, and there were villagers waiting in line to dry." Zhang Qingyong said that it is the time for the wheat harvest to be concentrated, and all the land available in the village is used to dry the wheat.
The picture shows farmers in Xinxiang County turning wheat on the side of the road. Photo by Han Zhangyun
Saying that, he grabbed a handful of wheat grains in the palm of his hand and rubbed them in front of the reporter's eyes and said: "It's rare that the weather has been good in the past two days, now the wheat is very dry and hard, the moisture must have dropped below 13%, reaching the storage standard, and you can take it back in the afternoon." ”
Previously, Henan officials required that all localities should make full use of various places such as cultural squares, school playgrounds, front and back houses, flat roofs, and even standardized factories and vacant factories of some enterprises to actively carry out drying.
The reporter learned from the agricultural department of Xinxiang County on the 7th that the local public space has been opened for drying wheat seeds in the county. In order to ensure the traffic safety of the grain-drying road, the county's transportation department and the urban management department increased the placement of safety facilities on the road, and sent personnel to the grassroots level to guide farmers to dry wheat without affecting safe passage, so as to ensure the safety of driving and pedestrian traffic, and realize the harvest of wheat as it goes. (End)