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Good Varieties, Good Opportunities and Good Laws Escort the Harvest of Summer Grain to Build a "Ballast Stone" for Food Security

People's Daily Online reporter Li Dong
May 20, 2024 13:42 | Source: People's Network
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At the time of "three summers", wheat billows and a bumper harvest is in sight. This year, the area of winter wheat in China has steadily increased slightly, and the overall growth is better than that of the previous year. Over the past few days, all regions have striven to seize the agricultural time, and made every effort to do a good job in the summer harvest. Good varieties, good opportunities and good methods have been used to escort the summer grain harvest, making a good start and a good start for the year's grain harvest.

Improved varieties ensure stable production and increase production

Good varieties are a solid foundation for agricultural modernization.

Recently, in Shuangfo Town, Nanbu County, Nanchong City, Sichuan Province, the high-yield demonstration area of "Tianfu Granary · One Hundred Counties and One Thousand Pieces", the harvester was busy in the wheat waves with a roar, and the field was very busy.

"The average yield per mu in the demonstration area reached 615.93 kg according to the measured yield based on the actual harvest, which again broke the record of 515.57 kg of wheat per mu in Nanchong set last year, more than twice the average yield of the whole province." Xue Xiaobin, deputy head of Sichuan Agricultural Technology Popularization Station, said.

To build a powerful agricultural country, science and technology are the best tools; Science and technology are also the fundamental way out for stabilizing and increasing grain production. It is understood that the "Mianmai 902" wheat variety in this yield testing demonstration area has been the wheat variety with the highest yield under the large-scale planting conditions in the southwest wheat region.

Luo Youming, deputy director of Nanchong Agricultural Technology Popularization Station, introduced that this variety has the advantages of high yield, good resistance, low protein content and weak gluten strength. "At present, the total planting area of weak gluten wheat in China is still small. After large-scale promotion, it is expected to improve the self-sufficiency of weak gluten wheat in raw grains and reduce dependence on imported raw grains."

Seed is the "chip" of agriculture. In recent years, China's seed industry revitalization has made solid progress and achieved a number of landmark achievements and phased progress. At present, the coverage rate of improved varieties of crops in China is more than 96%, the contribution rate of improved varieties in agricultural production increase is more than 45%, and the area of self bred varieties accounts for more than 95%. Domestic seeds can basically meet domestic demand.

Good opportunity to make summer grain production more efficient

Good opportunity is the equipment support of agricultural modernization.

When the wheat is ripe for a while, the most important thing is fighting. Early in the morning of May 14, about 800 mu of wheat was harvested in Yangchang Village, Wangjiang County, Anqing City, Anhui Province, marking the first battle of local winter wheat harvest.

"In the past, when wheat was about to be harvested, we had to find agricultural machinery, drying plants and sales companies in advance. Now we have a one-stop service for agricultural machinery, which is much easier." Zhou Xiaolin, a big grain farmer, was delighted to see clusters of wheat "transform" into plump grains in the operation of the harvester.

Zhou Xiaolin said that before the wheat maturity season came this year, the agricultural machinery harvesting team had already docked in advance and was ready to harvest wheat at any time.

The relevant person in charge of Wangjiang County Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau said that during the "three summers" period, 195000 mu of wheat is planned to be harvested by machine, and the yield is stable at more than 99%. "This year, it is planned to invest 1200 combine harvesters, 1000 large tractors and 8000 sets of supporting agricultural machinery. It is expected that large-scale harvesting will be basically completed in the first ten days of June."

Agricultural mechanization is the foundation of agricultural modernization. Agricultural machinery can help to speed up the production of summer grain. The No. 1 Document of the Central Committee of the People's Republic of China this year proposed to vigorously implement the action of patching up shortcomings in agricultural machinery and equipment. At present, the comprehensive mechanization rate of crop cultivation and harvest in China has reached 74%.

"Next, we will continue to focus on strengthening the foundation, breaking the card, improving quality and controlling risks, and strive to make up for the outstanding weaknesses in the agricultural machinery field as soon as possible, so as to stabilize the chain and strengthen the chain," said the relevant person in charge of the Department of Agricultural Mechanization Management of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs.

Good laws provide "hard support" for summer grain harvest

Good law is the technical way of agricultural modernization.

In Cheng'an County, Handan City, Hebei Province, grain grower Zhu Xintao is working with local agricultural technicians to check the planting of wheat with wide border and other row spacing.

"The number of ears per mu per mu of wide border and dense planting can be increased by 3% to 5% than before. Through scientific water and fertilizer management, the quality and yield of wheat this year can reach a new level." Zhu Xintao is full of confidence in the high yield of wheat this year.

Zhu Xintao said that the wide border and dense planting mode was to change the field to a large border field mode with a width of 5 meters, and each border field was planted with 18 rows of wheat. "Compared with the previous 2.7m border width, the land utilization rate can be increased by 6% to 7%."

Zhao Dandan, a technician from the Agricultural and Rural Bureau of Cheng'an County, said that the wide border and dense planting mode has improved the land utilization rate, and the yield per mu can increase by about 50 kg.

The relevant person in charge of the agricultural technology department of Cheng'an County said that this year, on the basis of the promotion of fine wheat varieties, Hebei Province also extensively promoted a variety of new planting technologies, and "good varieties+good methods" ensured the steady increase of grain yield per unit area.

This year, the No. 1 Document of the Central Committee proposed to solidly promote a new round of 100 billion kg grain production capacity improvement. Not long ago, the State Council issued the Action Plan for a New Round of 100 Billion jin Grain Productivity Improvement (2024-2030) (hereinafter referred to as the Action Plan). When answering questions about the Action Plan, the leading comrades of the National Development and Reform Commission said that the implementation of the new round of 100 billion jin grain productivity improvement action, the in-depth implementation of the national food security strategy, and the solid promotion of grain storage in the ground To store grain in technology, we should start with farmland, water conservancy, seeds, agricultural machinery, chemical fertilizers and pesticides, and farming technology, strengthen cohesion and technological integration and innovation, strengthen the construction of grain production capacity, and comprehensively consolidate the foundation of national food security.

A bumper harvest of grain in summer and initiative throughout the year. Summer grain is the first season of grain production throughout the year. The bumper harvest of summer grain under the escort of good varieties, good opportunities and good laws is constantly building the "ballast stone" of national food security.

(Editor in charge: Yang Xi, Lv Qian)
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