CCTV News: It is the right time to cultivate spring. In Huantai County, Zibo, Shandong, the local area has broken the traditional corn planting model by using intelligent technology equipment and realized precise "seedling" transplanting and breeding technology, injecting new impetus into increasing grain production and farmers' income.

In the farmland of an agricultural professional cooperative in Maqiao Town, Huantai County, an unmanned tractor is operating in the fields. With the precise placement of the robotic arm, tender green corn seedlings are planted neatly into the soil. At the same time, as the machine drove by, fertilization, watering, covering the mulch film, laying drip irrigation tape, etc. were also done in one go.

Sun Cheng, head of Qirun Agricultural Professional Cooperative in Huantai County: All agricultural machinery in our cooperative are equipped with Beidou navigation, which can be more accurate when operating in the field, reduce the working intensity and personnel costs, achieve accurate row spacing and plant spacing, reduce the use of seedlings, and reduce the cost.

This year, the local area actively explores and innovates new agricultural planting models, tries to promote the planting of fresh corn two seasons a year, and shortens the number of corn growth days through "factory seedling cultivation + mechanized transplanting".

Sun Cheng, head of Qirun Agricultural Professional Cooperative in Huantai County: This fresh corn can be harvested from seedlings to harvesting in about 75 days. Now after we transplant the seedlings, the first crop can be harvested around June 20. After harvesting the first crop, we will breed the second crop in advance, so that the second crop can be harvested by around mid-August. After harvesting, we can grow crops such as radishes and cabbage to achieve three harvests a year.

Spring irrigation is the right time, and digital intelligence empowers to help spring farming

At present, many places in Hubei have entered a critical period of spring irrigation. All regions are skillfully using digital platforms and dispatching drones to fully ensure the water used for farmland irrigation.

In the past two days, the Wangying Irrigation District, which is responsible for supplying water to nearly 500,000 mu of farmland in Wuhan, Xianning and other places, has officially launched spring irrigation.

Wang Ying Irrigation District has a digital twin platform like "smart brain". It collects various types of data and simulates the real irrigation district situation on the computer, so that staff can clearly grasp the real-time status of the irrigation district. Relying on this platform, staff can "open" all gates in the irrigation area with a click of the mouse.

In other parts of Hubei, Chunguan also incorporates management models such as technology and wisdom. In the thousand-acre continuous wheat fields in Zhengji Town, Yicheng City, drones hover in the air, carefully patrolling the irrigation lines, checking for hidden dangers, and ensuring the stable operation of the irrigation system.

In Zaoyang City and Shayang County, Jingmen City, local forces are organized to actively clear channels and clean up silt, and on the other hand, through water diversion and water lifting projects, water resources are allocated across regions to fully ensure the use of agricultural spring farming.