The area of spring sown grain accounts for more than half of the annual grain area. According to the agricultural situation dispatch of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the intended area of spring sown grain this year exceeds 950 million acres. Currently, various localities are taking effective measures to promote the implementation of intended planting areas.
The intended area for spring grain sowing this year exceeds 950 million acres
Inner Mongolia’s intended grain planting area this year exceeds 110 million acres, a steady increase from the previous year. Among them, the intended planting areas of corn and rice both increased. In the plot of Zhao Guang, a major grain grower in Tuyou Banner, a driverless rotary tillage and film-mulching machine installed with Beidou Navigation is running at full capacity to plant film-covered corn. Thanks to the vigorous promotion of abandoned land remediation and high-standard farmland construction, the local area has increased by about 10% this year, allowing Zhao Guang to transfer an additional 3,000 acres of land.
Zhao Guang, a major grain grower in Tumed Right Banner, Baotou City: This year, the total land area has reached more than 26,000 acres. With grain subsidies and land subsidy funds this year, we are quite motivated to farm.
In the past few days, ratoon rice cultivation has begun in Huoqiu, Anhui Province. The intended planting area of ratoon rice here has reached 830,000 acres, an increase of 26% over last year. This year, the local government continues to deepen the joint responsibility of the party and government for food security, and has included the construction of rice-growing factories and agricultural service centers into assessment targets. The number of rice-raising factories in the county has increased to 165, and each township has more than 2 standardized rice-raising factories. To ensure the quality of seedlings and promote the implementation of the intended area.
Zhan Changguo, Secretary of the Party Committee of Madian Town, Huoqiu County, Lu'an City: It is different now. The assessment of the number of rice-growing factories and the area of machine-transplanted rice has indeed become much more detailed. We feel that the burden is heavier and we have more grip. We at the grassroots level are actually implementing this work.
Spring plowing and land preparation are being stepped up in Hainan Prefecture, Qinghai Province. This year, the area of local spring sowing grain intentions remains stable. In order to promote the implementation of the intended area, Postal Savings Bank Hainan Branch established a spring plowing service team to go deep into the fields and use mobile exhibition equipment to enter information on farmers with financing needs. Farmer Han Baosen promptly applied for a 130,000 yuan subsidized loan, which solved his urgent need.
Han Baosen, a villager in More Village, Jiangxigou Town, Hainan Prefecture: The Postal Savings Bank of China disburses money very quickly. We applied for the loan on the same day, which was very helpful to us.
Increase the application of agricultural technology and strive to increase grain yields
In the past few days, early rice planting has been in full swing in Nanchang, Jiangxi. This year, the local area has increased the application of integrated agricultural mechanization technologies such as mechanical sowing and transplanting of rice. The mechanization rate of early rice planting is expected to exceed 57%, further increasing the level of yield per unit area. In Qianxi Village, Zhang Guangshui, a major grain grower, is stepping up his efforts to plant 200 acres of early rice. Agricultural machinery operators are driving high-speed rice transplanters to insert green seedlings into the fields in an orderly manner.
Zhang Guangshui, a major grain grower in Qianxi Village, Bayi Township, Nanchang County, Nanchang City: It is very uniform and neat, which also facilitates our later management. The grain yield is also guaranteed, which is 50 to 100 kilograms per acre higher than traditional manual planting.
Regeneration rice is a rice variety that can grow another crop after the first crop is harvested through fertilizer and water control, achieving two harvests after sowing once. It is an important measure to increase yields in many major rice-producing areas. In Huoqiu, Anhui Province, in order to increase the yield of the second crop of ratoon rice, this year the local government promoted the early sowing technology at the right time, advancing the seedling raising time by one week to extend the growth cycle of ratoon rice.
Du Jian, a major grain grower in Madian Town, Huoqiu County, Lu'an City: Sowing early at the right time and extending the cycle will be of great benefit to us in extending the growth cycle of ratoon rice in the later period and will be of great help in increasing yield. We plan to plant more than 200 acres this year, which is double that of last year.
As the weather gets warmer, rice seedling cultivation in Qing'an, Heilongjiang has started in full swing. This year, the local area focuses on promoting the application of ultra-early pot cultivation and high-yield cultivation technology. By raising seedlings nearly ten days in advance, the vegetative growth period of rice is extended, ensuring the maturity of fine rice varieties, increasing yield, and improving quality. At the Qing'an National Modern Agricultural Science and Technology Demonstration Base, the first batch of seedlings in the conjoined greenhouses have broken out of the ground, and the seedbed is full of green.
Wang Tingfu, a farmer in Jiusheng Town, Qing'an County, Suihua City: Now the seedlings have reached one leaf and one core. When the seedlings reach three leaves and one core, we can go to the fields to transplant rice seedlings after May 2 or 3.
(CCTV reporters Wang Kaibo, Chen Yewei and Song Jianchun)