CCTV News: Wujiaqu City, Xinjiang is an important cotton planting base in northern Xinjiang. After heavy snow, in order to ensure the smooth progress of cotton sowing, the local area began to "break the snow" to prepare for tillage.

In Xinhu Farm, Fangcaohu Farm and other places in Wujiaqu City, Xinjiang, the farmland is still covered with white areas. The local area organizes large machinery to help farmers carry out snow-breaking operations to ensure the smooth progress of cotton sowing.

At the mechanical snowbreaking site, a high-horsepower tractor carried a heavy notch rake back and forth on the snow field. The snow was evenly broken and mixed with the turned out soil to speed up the melting of the snow, which could make the cotton sowing time about 15 days in advance. At the same time, it can also destroy the living environment of overwintering insect pupa in the surface soil, improve land moisture, and lay the foundation for a bumper cotton yield and harvest. This year, a total of 136,000 mu of farmland in Wujiaqu City, Xinjiang needs to be broken, and most of it has been completed. After the snow breaks, the cotton seeding time can be advanced from March 25 to March 10.

Xichou, Yunnan: Play "basketball" in the paddy fields to welcome spring plowing

Every year on the first day of the second lunar month, Xichou County, Wenshan Prefecture, Yunnan Province, ushers in a unique Women's Sun Festival. On this day, local Zhuang people will not only put on their clothes, but also a "basketball" competition will be staged in the paddy fields. While celebrating the festival, it also indicates that spring farming production will be fully opened.

In Tanggu Village, Xisha Town, Xichou County, Wenshan Prefecture, two paddy fields were temporarily transformed into basketball courts, with baskets erected on both sides of the field, and the players flexibly shuttled between the paddy fields, returning to defense, passing balls, and shooting. The wonderful game made the villagers and tourists present dazzled.

It is understood that in Xichou County, every year on the first day of the second lunar month, Zhuang women over 16 years old will wear traditional ethnic costumes, hold solemn coming-of-age ceremony, and hold a ceremony of "inviting the sun, looking for the sun, and sending the sun" to pray for good weather and good harvests.

Linyi, Shanxi: The first batch of Yellow River hairy crab seedlings have begun to be released

Recently, the Yellow River hairy crab breeding base in Linyi County, Yuncheng City, Shanxi has seized the farming season and started the release of crab seedlings.

Early in the morning, crab farmers transported the strictly screened crab seedlings to the crab pond in turn. The crab seedlings move quickly, quickly climbing around and entering the sparkling Yellow River water. The crab seedling variety presented by crab farmers is Chinese mitten crab, which has strong adaptability, high survival rate and strong vitality. In order to ensure the unique quality of Yellow River hairy crabs, crab farmers strictly select them according to the standards.

It is understood that the release of crab seedlings in Linyi County this year will last for about 30 days, with about 9.4 million crab seedlings being released. By the golden autumn season, these crab seedlings will grow into hairy crabs in the Yellow River in Shanxi, bringing local crab farmers the joy of harvest and considerable economic benefits.