China News Agency, Henan Zhumadian, June 3 (Reporter Liu Peng) Henan, a major wheat-producing province in China, has more than half of the wheat harvest, and has now crossed the Yellow River, gradually swaying the sickle all the way north.
It was midsummer, and Henan, the "granary of the Central Plains", entered the "wheat harvest time".
There is a saying in farmers that when the wheat is cooked for a while, the dragon's mouth takes the grain.
On the 3rd, a reporter from China News Agency visited 10,000 mu of high-standard farmland in Xiping County, Zhumadian City and found that the motors of several combine harvesters roared, harvesting, threshing, and loading, a busy scene.
Wu Zhenqi, deputy director of the Xiping County Agriculture and Rural Bureau, who is instructing the operation in the field, told reporters that the wheat harvesting work in Xiping County is nearing completion. Because the meteorological department predicted that there may be heavy rain that night, the local area is stepping up the harvest to ensure that the particles are returned to the warehouse.
"This year's average yield per mu has exceeded 1,000 catties, exceeding expectations. This is all thanks to the help of high-standard farmland construction, especially the fully automatic sprinkler irrigation machine, which not only solves the problem of drought and low rainfall this year, but also saves effort and trouble and saves money." Xiping Zhang Weiping, a major grain grower from the Laowangpo Management Committee of the county, said this with golden wheat grains in his hand.
Wu Zhenqi introduced that the heavy rain in July last year affected some farmland in Xiping County, which is in the flood storage and detention area, but according to the current harvest situation, it should be a bumper year.
Henan Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs reported on the 3rd that as of 17:00 that day, the province had harvested 49.71 million mu of wheat, accounting for about 58.5% of the province's planting area.
Among them, Zhumadian is 11.63 million mu and Xinxiang is 570,000 mu.
It can be seen that with the opening of Xinxiang on the north bank of the Yellow River, the large-scale wheat harvest in Henan has crossed the Yellow River all the way north.
Affected by the torrential rain in July last year, flood storage and detention areas in Xinxiang, northern Henan and other places were severely affected.
Right now, it is the first summer harvest after the disaster.
"It is expected that the output will exceed 1,000 jin per mu, which is better than last year." Wang Xianzhu, a villager in Fandian Town, Weihui City, Xinxiang, has also harvested 63 mu of wheat from the 3rd.
He said, "We are a flood storage and detention area. The flooded farmland was like the sea at that time. No one thought that not only the wheat was planted, but now the harvest is just around the corner."
According to Liu Guangliang, the head of the Weihui Agricultural Technology Promotion Station, although wheat sowing in the affected areas was delayed, the joint efforts of all parties have laid a solid foundation for the harvest of summer grains.
"The harvest of 500,000 mu of wheat in Weihui City will be completed by mid-June, and it will definitely increase production and harvest again."
Wang Chenyang, a researcher at Henan Agricultural University and executive director of the National Wheat Engineering Technology Research Center, said in an interview on the 3rd that Henan, the main wheat producing area in China, learned from the current large-scale harvested area that this year's wheat in the province not only turned yellow, but also Full grain, good color and high yield.
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