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13 villages in Dongsunzhuang Town, Wuqiang County, Hebei Province, shut down irrigation machine wells Response: Implement dry farming and rainwater breeding projects

Hebei News Network News (reporter Lv Ruoxi) Recently, netizens in Wuqiang County, Hengshui City, Hebei Province, reflected on the Hebei News Network's "Sunshine Administration" platform that the irrigation machine wells in some villages in Dongsunzhuang Town were sealed and could not be watered, and I don't know why. In this regard, dongsunzhuang town government staff responded that in recent years, some areas of Hengshui city groundwater exploitation is serious, in order to save groundwater, in accordance with the requirements of the higher authorities, since October 1, 13 villages in Dongsunzhuang town as pilot villages began to implement dry farming and rain breeding projects, successively shut down irrigation machine wells, during this period, villagers need to use natural precipitation to plant crops, each mu of arable land will be subsidized to villagers 800 yuan per year.

According to Mr. Wang, a villager in the blacksmith village of Dongsunzhuang Town, Wuqiang County, when he went to his own farmland a few days ago, he found that several irrigation machine wells near the cultivated land were sealed. Not only that, Mr. Wang said, but the irrigation machine wells in Liu Nanzhaoshi Village and Heli Village, which are adjacent to the blacksmith village, have also been shut down. "After shutting down the irrigation well, you can't water the land, the harvest may be affected, why shut down the irrigation well?" Mr. Wang said.

In this regard, a staff member with a high surname of Dongsunzhuang Town Government said that in recent years, groundwater exploitation in some areas of Hengshui City has been serious, in order to save groundwater, in accordance with the requirements of the higher authorities, since October 1, 13 villages in Dongsunzhuang Town have begun to implement dry farming and rain breeding projects as pilot villages, and have successively shut down irrigation wells. According to the staff member, the dryland rainwater breeding project is to change the water irrigation land to dry land, adopt the drought resistance and moisture protection farming method, use natural precipitation to develop agricultural production, shut down the water wells in a unified manner, and no longer pump groundwater for irrigation. "More than 20,000 mu of arable land in Dongsunzhuang Town implemented the dry farming and rain-fed project, and after shutting down the irrigation machine well, the villagers need to use natural precipitation to plant crops, of which each mu of cultivated land will be subsidized by the villagers 800 yuan per year." The staff member with the surname Gao said.

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