Gaotai County resolutely shoulders the heavy responsibility of food security, persistently regards the expansion of wheat as the most important and urgent task of the current agricultural work, grasps the early work, extensively mobilizes, and meticulously organizes to ensure the full implementation of the wheat planting area.
At present, during the critical period of large-scale sowing of wheat, in the planting base of Gansu Daye Forage Technology Co., Ltd. in the county, a tractor with a seeder shuttles back and forth to sow wheat. This year, the company used alfalfa rotation to plant 1,000 acres of wheat inverted stubble, and under the guidance of county agricultural technicians, the company adopted deep ploughing deep pine technology to ensure that the sown soil was smooth and soft, and improved the germination rate of wheat.
Chen Gang, a villager in Wutong Village, a camel town, has also been sowing wheat while grabbing farmers these days. "This year, town and village cadres are vigorously publicizing the significance of planting wheat and supportive policies, and we are also well aware of the importance of planting wheat, and my 220 acres of arable land intend to be planted into wheat." Chen Gang said. With the implementation of various policies to benefit farmers, such as wheat planting subsidies and subsidies for deep pine land preparation, the enthusiasm of farmers in growing grain has been greatly improved, and many peasant households in their villages have also set aside a certain amount of land to plant wheat this year while planting cash crops.
In accordance with the principle of "adapting measures to local conditions and implementing policies in different categories," all towns and villages in Gaotai County have publicized and implemented the spirit of the state's policy on supporting and developing grain production, preached the spring wheat planting path of "increasing grain in the front and increasing the efficiency in the back stubble," and raised the enthusiasm of the masses in growing grain. In accordance with the principle of "cultivating an excellent structure, stabilizing grain and increasing income, and planting all seeds", through high-standard farmland construction, guided planting in grain functional areas, improvement of wasteland, crop rotation and stubble, etc., encourage the participation of large planters, farmers' cooperatives and other new agricultural business entities, actively expand the wheat planting area, and give key support to towns with more wheat increase in project funds such as high-standard farmland construction, agricultural machinery purchase subsidies, and socialized services, to ensure that the 52,000 mu of spring wheat planting tasks are implemented.
(New Gansu Gansu Economic Daily correspondent: Duan Hai)