Xining, April 21, Xinhua (Sun Rui Wu Tingting) reporter learned from Haixi Prefecture, Qinghai Province that the new forage "Haike No. 1" was successfully planted in Dulan County, Qaidam Basin.

The picture shows the staff measuring the growth of "Hike No. 1" switchgrass. Photo by Wu Tingting

  The Qaidam Basin, known as China's "treasure bowl", is located in Haixi Prefecture, Qinghai Province, with an area of ​​about 265,000 square kilometers. It is one of China's important energy and mineral resource-rich areas and an important wind and sand fixation ecology in western China. Ribbon.

  According to reports, the "Hike No. 1" Liu Zhiji was contacted by the Dulan Working Group of the Zhejiang Aid Green Command Headquarters through the Zhejiang Merchants Matchmaking Jiangsu Qifu Agricultural Science and Technology Co., Ltd. for free trial planting in Dulan.

  This variety not only solves the "three low problems" of low plateau crop survival rate, preservation rate and growth rate, but also has the advantages of salt tolerance and low water consumption, meeting the requirements of water-saving agriculture and the development of high-quality forage grass, and can also achieve desertification The obvious ecological benefits of governance, saline-alkali land improvement, planting of Gobi desert, wind protection and sand fixation and water conservation also provide new options for the current agricultural structure adjustment, "grain to feed" and desert management.

  In the Chaiyuan Vegetable Professional Cooperative of Xiangride Town, Dulan County, the reporter saw that since the trial planting in Dulan on March 9, the germination rate, emergence rate and growth trend have all performed well, and the highest plant height has reached 70 cm.

  At present, this variety has been promoted and planted in Xinjiang, Sichuan, Gansu and other provinces, and has developed saline-alkali land, degraded grassland, and desertification land management models. However, this is the first time that it has been planted on the Qinghai Snow Plateau and above 3000 meters above sea level. (Finish)