Newsweek丨How to protect spring farming under the epidemic?
Chinese people often say that "the people take food as the sky", and at the same time they often say that "the plan of the year lies in the spring."
But this spring this year, the epidemic is a particularly big "cold spring". For Jilin, a large grain province, the epidemic has been closed and controlled for a month, but the time has also reached the middle of April. The important season of spring ploughing, on the one hand, food security is an important national security factor, on the other hand, the epidemic situation in Jilin Province has been effectively controlled, so starting from this week, farmers who cultivate the land will return to their hometowns to the side of the land. .
How do people move?
And how are the materials such as seeds and fertilizers in place?
How to keep the land from being abandoned?
Simplify the process
Help farmers and friends return to their hometowns as soon as possible to prepare for farming
The Qingming Festival is a good time for farming.
A spring ploughing production link from south to north has gradually begun.
This is a real problem for Jilin, a major grain-producing province that is experiencing the impact of a new round of epidemics.
Because many of the local medium and high-risk areas are in rural areas, various areas in the city are also undergoing different levels of closure and control management.
However, during the critical period of spring ploughing and preparation for ploughing, the farming season does not wait for anyone, so how to make these farmers stranded in the city return to their hometowns to farm as soon as possible has become a top priority.
Yang Xueli, a villager in Datun Village: I must have panicked in my heart. When I was in the county seat, I was thinking when I can go back to farming. It’s already April. I think about it every day at home. What to receive.
Yang Xueli from Datun Village, Yongji County, Jilin City, like many local villagers, came to the county town early to live and study in order for her children to go to school.
But they return to the village to farm during the sowing and autumn harvest seasons to maintain basic vegetables and family income throughout the year.
This time, when the agricultural season came, they were originally required to be quarantined until May according to the closure and control requirements of Jilin City. Road on the agenda.
Geng Jianren, member of the party group of the Jilin Provincial Health and Health Committee: In order to ensure that the epidemic prevention and control and spring ploughing production are both correct, on April 4, the provincial epidemic prevention and control leading group issued the "Work Plan on Returning Spring Ploughing for Farmers Detained in Changji and Jilin Cities". Detailed regulations have been made on the application procedures for returning home conditions, personnel transfer, and management and control after returning home.
It is possible to return to their hometowns. This is undoubtedly a long-awaited good news for many farmers who were stranded in Changchun and Jilin cities due to the epidemic and were unable to return to their hometowns for spring farming.
According to the regulations of the plan, whether it is a closed control area, a control area, a prevention area, or a closed-loop management of migrant workers on an enterprise construction site, as long as they meet the relevant nucleic acid testing requirements, they can apply to the local community for returning home.
Yang Xueli, a villager in Datun Village: As soon as I heard that I could return to my hometown, I reported it and notified us in two days. It was very fast. I was very happy, and I rushed down in a hurry.
After receiving the notice, Yang Xueli and her husband drove their private car on their way home.
In response to some towns with severe epidemics, Jilin City has adopted the method of "four assistance and four generations" to ensure that spring ploughing production can proceed normally.
Datun Village, which is already a low-risk control area, has more than 180 people who are willing to return to their hometown to farm this time, and all of them have been approved to return.
Gao Jinghe, Secretary of the Party Branch of Datun Village, Yongji County, Jilin City: 78 people have returned so far, and they are still returning one after another. It is expected that almost all of them will return in three days.
Yang Xueli and his wife returned to the village and went home after registration.
Those who were in the low-risk prevention area before need to undergo nucleic acid testing and seven-day home health monitoring, so they can travel freely in the village.
Neighboring villagers and village committees provide help for basic living needs during these seven days.
Yang Xueli, who has returned to her hometown, has finally calmed down. She needs to prepare a large amount of agricultural materials such as seeds and fertilizers as soon as possible for her several acres of cornfields. One after another, they embarked on the road of returning to their hometown for spring farming, ready to sow the hope of the new year.
Liu Changquan, Institute of Rural Development, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences: Guarantee spring ploughing, it is not only related to the production of this year, but also such a problem of food security, political security and social security in the whole country, so I think it is more than the traditional meaning. The "one year of misunderstanding" is even more important.
Don't miss farming time don't miss farming
Guarantee the green channel for the transportation of agricultural materials
In Cang County, Hebei, this week, many farmers started watering and irrigating winter wheat.
Spring returns to the earth and the climate warms. Winter wheat has experienced five months of growth and entered the stage of jointing growth. At this time, the wheat seedlings need a lot of water and fertilizer, and they have enough food and drink to grow quickly.
However, in this critical period of water and fertilizer, the prices of watering and fertilizers have risen considerably.
Affected by various factors at home and abroad, domestic fertilizer prices have generally risen this year.
According to the documents provided by farmers in Cang County, a 40-kilogram bag of nitrogen fertilizer rose from 48 yuan in March last year to 76 yuan in March this year, an increase of 28 yuan, an increase of 58.3%.
High prices and transportation difficulties during the epidemic have caused some farmers to be unable to buy fertilizers.
Wang Linqing of Cang County Fumin Agricultural Technology Professional Cooperative: After the outbreak of the epidemic, the transportation was not smooth, and the wheat should be top-dressed with urea on time this season, but the price of fertilizer has risen too much. Three or four hundred dollars, so there is no way, the cooperative organizes members to spray foliar fertilizer on the wheat.
Wang Linqing's cooperative has 1,300 mu of land. If all the urea fertilizer is used, it will take about 50 tons. According to the current market price of 2,400 yuan per ton, the cooperative will spend nearly 20,000 yuan more than last year. Besides, it is difficult to buy enough fertilizer. fertilizer.
In order not to miss the farming season, farmers use foliar fertilizers instead of chemical fertilizers.
During the spring ploughing season, many vegetables and fruits also enter the season of planting or fertilizing.
Xiaoyi, a vegetable farmer in Weifang, Shandong, has built two new ginger planting bases in Guangrao, Shandong and Suqian, Jiangsu. Ginger seeds have been cultivated at the bases, but the purchased fertilizer cannot be delivered due to the epidemic.
Xiaoyi, a vegetable farmer in Weifang, Shandong: We pulled ginger to Guangrao for germination in advance. It has been more than 28 days now. Ginger should have been planted in the ground. We ordered fertilizer in Weifang at the end of last year, but due to epidemic control The reason is that logistics vehicles are more difficult to find, and as time drags on, some ginger sprouts can no longer be used, and there are losses every day.
Ginger seeds cannot be planted without waiting for the base fertilizer.
In order to deliver the fertilizer to the base as soon as possible, Xiaoyi constantly consulted on changes in the epidemic control policy, and was constantly looking for a logistics company that could deliver.
Xiaoyi, a vegetable farmer in Weifang, Shandong: I made logistics calls one by one and asked them if they could send it. I found dozens of logistics vehicles and asked them if they could go to that place, only after two or three stops in the middle.
The price of logistics costs is basically seven or eight times that of the previous ones.
Recently, Heilongjiang, Jilin and other provinces have issued work requirements on the guarantee of agricultural materials transportation.
Specific measures include establishing a "point-to-point" green channel for the supply and transportation of agricultural materials, strictly prohibiting road blockages and road closures at will, and ensuring a smooth road network.
To ensure that the agricultural materials are placed in place in time, so as not to miss the farming time and agricultural affairs.
Prevention and control, agricultural time with both hands
Safeguarding agricultural sales
Yaozhuang Town, Jiashan County, Jiaxing, is rich in tomato and other agricultural products, and is one of the vegetable baskets near Shanghai, Jiangsu and other places.
More than 400 farmers manage about 3,000 mu of tomato fields. However, when the epidemic hit, the first tomato crops faced slow sales as soon as they hit the market in mid-March, and the current daily output is close to 100 tons.
Gu Jinhai, deputy mayor of Yaozhuang Town, Jiashan County: We in Yaozhuang do not have the step of deep processing. They are all seasonal fresh vegetables, so they have a certain timeliness in preservation.
We also feel a little pressure under the uncertain situation of the epidemic. If the transportation channels are not smooth, or there is a sharp decline in sales, it will lead to a harvest problem for our common people this year.
Many tomatoes here have been resold by inter-provincial vehicles that drove in. As of this week, there is still an epidemic in Jiaxing. Epidemic prevention requires that the circulation of people and materials slow down, and vehicles cannot enter. The sales of these seasonal agricultural products are slow for a day. It's too late.
In addition to the local guarantee for domestic sales and the turnover consumption of cities and counties in the province, it is still necessary to allow major customers from other provinces to drive in under the epidemic prevention.
You can only enter but not enter. In Yaozhuang Town, you can enter and exit. The premise is that drivers in low-risk areas outside the province must hold a green health code, an itinerary code without a star, and a negative nucleic acid report, and get off at the expressway bayonet. Do nucleic acid and antigen testing, and after passing the test, the body will be released with a seal and enter the trading venue.
Shen Dongming, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of Jiejinggang Village, Yaozhuang Town, Jiashan County: We got the pass the day before, and there is a summary of how many vehicles will come to us. First, the farmers will transport the agricultural products to the designated trading point of our temporary transaction, and then drive the car. Come in to kill, and after killing, go outside the designated trading point.
After our stevedores loaded the tomatoes, the car returned on the same road, and the driver did not get off the car the whole way.
The government has formulated a standardized epidemic prevention strategy, legalized the passage of vehicles from other provinces, and carried out the whole process of epidemic prevention supervision, while customers from other provinces are specifically connected by more than 160 agricultural product brokers in the county, ensuring that each driver from other provinces corresponds to the agricultural products of farmers one by one.
In such an open-air exchange far away from the population, farmers evacuated after bringing in agricultural products, without contact with vehicles from other provinces, while third-party stevedores wore protective clothing to load vehicles from other provinces.
Under the epidemic, Yaozhuang can still ensure that seven or eight vehicles from other provinces drive in every day, and there is no case of infection.
Guarantee spring ploughing, people can go back, and agricultural materials can be sold; guarantee sales, let the products go out, and farmers can get rid of heart disease.
In the spring when there is an epidemic, when protecting farmers, what is guaranteed is the first income of the year, and the first hope planted in the year.
Various forms of prevention and control, and exploration programs that have been well grasped during farming are the direction of our efforts.