CCTV News (News Network): Farming is busy during the Qingming Festival. At present, all regions are scrambling to carry out agricultural production during the farming season to lay the foundation for a bumper harvest of crops in summer and autumn.
Winter wheat in many places in the north has entered a critical period of spring pipelines. At present, more than 33 million mu of wheat in Hebei are growing well. The local area uses smart irrigation and watering to replenish moisture, so that the first batch of winter wheat can be filled with full water. At present, the proportion of wheat fields in Hebei's first and second category strong seedlings exceeds 92%. In Shandong, more than 60 million mu of winter wheat have entered the festive period. A total of 147,000 agricultural technicians at all levels have been sent across the province to provide squatting to guide farmers in spring wheat management, scientifically fertilizing, weeding, and preventing diseases and pests.
As the temperature continues to rise, Gansu, Inner Mongolia and other places have gradually entered spring sowing. In Jiayuguan, the popularization and application of new technologies has enabled wheat planting to achieve ditches, sowing, fertilizing, laying drip irrigation belts, and covering soil in one go. Compared with the traditional methods, it greatly reduces the consumption of water resources, and also improves the wheat's cold resistance, drought resistance and lodging resistance. In Inner Mongolia, the local area seizes the favorable opportunity of suitable soil moisture and launches wheat spring sowing in full swing. Up to now, 400,000 mu of wheat have been planted in Inner Mongolia, and it is expected to enter the peak period of spring sowing in late April.
The production of early rice in southern China is carried out in an orderly manner. In Anhui, early rice and regenerated rice have entered the stage of comprehensive seedling cultivation. In one automated seedling cultivation factory, intelligent seedling cultivation has shortened the seedling emergence time by about 10 days, and the yield per mu can be increased by 10%-15%. Fujian has invested 194,000 units (sets) of modern agricultural machinery and equipment this year, including intelligent seedling cultivation equipment, Beidou assisted driving system, agricultural drones, etc., providing intelligent services for the planting of more than 1.41 million mu of early rice in the province. More than half of the early rice transplanting in Guangdong have been planted with more than 13 million mu. This year, Guangdong has promoted 24 new high-quality and efficient rice varieties and 15 advanced rice cultivation technologies to help rice seedling cultivation and sowing.
