Xinhua News Agency Chengdu, May 7th Question: "Smart Field" for Tibetan Grain - Summer Harvest and Summer Planting in Chongzhou, Sichuan
Xinhua News Agency reporters Ye Hanyong, Yuan Qiuyue, and Yuan Bo
The beginning of summer has just passed, and it is now the busy farming season. When the reporter visited the countryside of Chongzhou City, Chengdu, Sichuan, he saw that the local area was actively promoting the construction of high-standard farmland, and intelligent agricultural machinery, remote sensing satellites , and ground sensing devices built a digital smart farmland management system. The deep integration of science and technology and agriculture achieves the goal of "harvesting food in the land and hiding food in technology".
In Longxing Town, Chongzhou City, high-standard farmland is concentrated and contiguous, with smooth and smooth working roads, criss-crossing drainage and irrigation canals, and complete modern agricultural facilities. The roar of harvesters can be heard in the wheat fields.
Looking at the harvesters shuttled back and forth, Zhang Luyong, a villager in Shima Village, Longxing Town, felt much more at ease: "We need to start production early in the spring. The wheat must be harvested in mid-to-late May, and the vacated fields will be composted, watered, and rice transplanted while harvesting."
In Longxing Town, Chongzhou City, villagers are driving harvesters to harvest wheat. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Yuan Bo
This year’s No. 1 Central Document proposed to build 100 million acres of high-standard farmland by 2022. Chongzhou builds high-standard farmland and uniformly plans and levels the cultivated land scattered by farmers to solve problems such as messy land and poor water supply and drainage.
"The land consolidation and high-standard farmland transformation in the past few years have been of great help to the cooperative." Mou Chonglun, chairman of the Jixian Liangjing Land Cooperative in Chongzhou City, drove an "Iron Bull" to plant rice in the fields. The reporter checked the table and calculated. The rice transplanter can complete the transplantation of one acre of rice in about 8 minutes at the fastest. He said that compared with ordinary farmland, high-standard farmland has more stable water supply, stronger disaster resistance and higher grain yield. The cooperative's rice yield per mu has increased from 800 to 900 kilograms to more than 1,000 kilograms, and the sowing area has also increased from more than 300 acres in 2012 to the current 2,300 acres.
Huang Chunjiang, deputy director of the Chongzhou Municipal Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau, introduced that from 2011 to 2020, Chongzhou City has recognized a total of 364,300 acres of high-standard farmland, and the average investment standard per mu is not less than 3,000 yuan. The planned planting area for spring grain in 2022 is 362,000 acres, of which the rice sowing area is 318,200 acres, an increase of 1,200 acres compared with 2021.
High-standard farmland has been built, and smart agricultural machinery and equipment have a "stage" to show off their skills.
Villagers put seedling cultivation tray on the rice transplanter and prepared to transplant the rice seedlings. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Yuan Bo
At the Yangliu Farmers' Professional Cooperative in Chongzhou City, more than 20 pieces of modern agricultural machinery and equipment, including rotary tillers, rice transplanters, plant protection drones, and fully automatic grain drying equipment, are "lining up." Wang Lingli, the agricultural professional manager of the
cooperative, is a "post-90s generation". After graduating from college 7 years ago, she returned to her hometown and followed her father, Wang Zhiquan, one of the first agricultural professional managers in Chengdu, to become a " new farmer". Now the father and daughter work together to manage three cooperatives, and the fields they manage have grown from more than 80 acres at the beginning to more than 3,900 acres today. They have implemented full mechanized operations such as seedling cultivation, transplanting, plant protection, harvesting, and drying, and introduced a modern agricultural service smart platform.
"Take rice transplanting as an example. In the past, a person could plant up to 2 acres of land in a day, while a rice transplanter could plant about 50 acres a day." As the rice transplanter ran in the field, Wang Lingli sat in the office. She could see the operation track of the rice transplanter on the background of her mobile phone. If the density was uneven, she could arrange for manpower to make up for it in time.
Yangliu Farmers' Professional Cooperative has now developed into a national farmer's professional cooperative demonstration cooperative that integrates large-scale grain planting, drying, storage, and processing. Its revenue in 2021 is 2.77 million yuan, and the average member dividend per mu is 2,782 yuan. The three cooperatives managed by Wang Lingli produced about 2.28 million kilograms of dry wheat and about 4.18 million kilograms of rice in 2021. For this reason, she won the title of "National Advanced Individual in Grain Production".
"The cooperative also provides full agricultural services from planting to processing for more than 20,000 acres of surrounding farmland." Wang Lingli said that in compliance with the general trend of agricultural digitalization and intelligence, she is changing from a grain operator to a comprehensive agricultural service provider.
Farmers from Jixian Liangjing Land Cooperative are inspecting the seedling trays.Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Yuan Qiuyue
From relying on the sky to "smart" farming, Chongzhou's high-standard farmland construction has become more and more "smart".
"Technology has made fields 'smart', and you can monitor the growth of rice with just your fingers." Mou Chonglun took out his mobile phone and showed the reporter the "Beidou Agricultural Machinery Manager" mobile application. With one click, he can see the operation status of a rice transplanter. In the past, he was "hectic", but now he is able to patrol the fields in the "cloud" proficiently. This veteran farmer who has been farming for more than 30 years feels more calm.
"Small weather stations and sensing equipment are installed in the rice fields. Through data analysis, we can know which fields need pest control without going to the fields." Wang Lingli said with a smile that the use of digitalization and mechanization has saved costs and increased the efficiency by about 30% per mu.
high-standard farmland, intelligent agricultural machinery and equipment and agricultural big data platform are the basic support for the development of modern agriculture. Huang Chunjiang said that to solve the problem of "who will farm the land, who will operate the land, and who will provide services", Chongzhou City will continue to explore and gradually build a new agricultural co-operation system of " land joint-stock cooperatives + agricultural professional managers + agricultural comprehensive services", develop smart agriculture, and accelerate the penetration of agricultural digitalization into the entire industry chain of production, supply and sales, further activating new momentum for rural revitalization.
