CCTV News (News Network): All localities seize the farming season and steadily promote spring plowing and spring management to lay a solid foundation for a bumper grain harvest throughout the year.
At present, early rice transplanting in southern China is gradually underway. In Kunyang Village, Heshan City, Guangdong Province, a continuous area of more than 2,000 acres of high-standard farmland, the transplanter is busy working. This spring plowing, the local area will implement unified varieties, unified formula fertilization, unified cultivation management and comprehensive prevention and control of pests and weeds, and the yield per mu is expected to increase by about 10%. This year, Guangdong has built more than 300 large-area rice yield improvement demonstration fields, promoted good varieties and technologies, and helped increase grain production and income.
Scientific seedling cultivation is the key to meticulous cultivation. Hunan's early rice seedling cultivation has entered its peak period. More than 16 million square meters of seedling cultivation facilities have been built, and it is planned to have a centralized seedling cultivation of early rice to reach more than 13.5 million mu. The Hunan Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs has sent a technical guidance team to go deep into 74 key counties for double-season rice production to guide farmers to concentrate seedling cultivation.
Most of the northern winter wheat has returned to green. The overall growth of more than 33 million mu of winter wheat seedlings in Hebei is better than usual. In the Cheng'an County high-standard farmland demonstration zone, agricultural technicians collect soil temperature, humidity, nutrient content and other data in real time through the Internet of Things intelligent monitoring system to help farmers irrigate and fertilize scientifically. More than 60 million mu of wheat in Shandong have entered the rebirth period one after another. In response to the possible frequent occurrence of pests and diseases, the agricultural department has organized local governments to strengthen monitoring and early warnings, prepare sufficient medicines and equipment in advance, and do a good job in prevention and control. In the high-standard farmland in Dali County, Shaanxi, large-scale modern agricultural machinery shuttles through the fields, fertilization, weeding, irrigation, etc. are completed in one go. This year, the local area has adopted refined integrated technology to sow, optimize varieties, and change shallow tillage to deep tillage. At the same time, combined with integrated water and fertilizer technology, laying a solid foundation for a bumper summer grain harvest.
