New Gansu Client News (New Gansu Gansu Farmers Daily correspondent Han Yongpu Zhao Shengxiang) in order to give full play to the plateau summer vegetable resources and geographical advantages of Tianzhu County, to promote the high-quality, efficient and green development of the plateau summer vegetable industry. On April 12, the Tianzhu County Agricultural and Rural Bureau took the practical activity of "I do practical things for the masses" as an opportunity, while grasping the prevention and control of the epidemic, sounded the clarion call for spring ploughing and preparing for farming, and when grabbing the farmers, organized agricultural technology extension personnel to hold a live demonstration and training meeting on the rain gutter sowing technology of lettuce whole film double ridge collection in Saishisi Town, and guided farmers to carry out the technical work of rain gutter sowing of lettuce whole film double ridge collection in mountain dryland, setting off a new upsurge of spring ploughing and preparing for farming.
The town of Saishisi in Tianzhu County held a live demonstration training meeting on the rain gutter sowing technology of lettuce full film double ridge collection. Photo by Han Yongpu and Zhao Shengxiang, correspondent of the New Gansu Gansu Farmers' Daily
At the training meeting, the technical personnel of the Agricultural Technology Extension Center of Tianzhu County conducted training on technical points such as land preparation, fertilization and seed selection, ridge mulching, sowing, and field management. In the on-site demonstration stage, the technicians sometimes bend down to demonstrate the ridge trenching skills, sometimes get up to explain the sowing points, and guide farmers on how to distinguish the symptoms of fertilizer deficiency and how to increase fertilizer application at different growth stages according to the characteristics of lettuce fertilizer needs. After the training demonstration, the farmers gathered around the technicians to consult the planting technology problems, and the technicians answered them in detail.
Farmers gather around technicians to consult on planting techniques. Photo by Han Yongpu and Zhao Shengxiang, correspondent of the New Gansu Gansu Farmers' Daily
In recent years, with the increasing shortage of water resources and the continuous reduction of rural labor, the dryland of Eryin Mountain in Tianzhu County has led to a lack of industrial development due to water shortage and drought, which has affected the pace of rural revitalization to a certain extent. The Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau actively thinks and takes the initiative to plan, insists on seeking benefits from the mountainous drylands, and in accordance with the goals of "scientific layout, excellent varieties, standardized production, standardized management, product branding, and intensive development", plans to build a high-quality planting demonstration area for high-quality summer vegetables on the plateau of Tianzhu County, and plans to build a high-quality planting demonstration area for high-quality summer vegetables on the plateau of 100,000 mu, of which 3,000 mu of lettuce full-film double-ridge collection rain gutter sowing technology demonstration base will be built in Anyuan Town, Duoshi Town, and Saishis Town.
Technicians of Tianzhu County Agricultural Technology Extension Center give a live demonstration. Photo by Han Yongpu and Zhao Shengxiang, correspondent of the New Gansu Gansu Farmers' Daily
"Our county's Eryin Mountain dryland planting plateau summer vegetables, affected by moisture, the yield is unstable, the quality is not high, through the implementation of the full film double ridge collection rain gutter sowing technology demonstration, the use of 'coverage steam suppression, membrane surface rain collection, ridge and ditch planting' three technologies into one of the new technology, so that ineffective rainfall into effective rainfall, to maximize the preservation of soil moisture, to solve the Problem of insufficient moisture in the dryland planting plateau summer vegetables in The Eryin Mountains, and then effectively increase the benefits of mountain dryland." Wang Yao, director of the Tianzhu County Agricultural Technology Center, said.
Source: New Gansu