CCTV News: Busy with spring ploughing when grasping farming, spring planting and spring management are being stepped up in various places.
During this period, 1.7 million mu of corn in Aksu Prefecture, Xinjiang, began to be sown one after another. In a farmland in Aksu City, a high-horsepower tractor equipped with a Beidou navigation system carries an integrated precision seeder to sow seeds according to a pre-set seeding route. This integrated precision seeder can not only achieve precision seeding, but also improve planting efficiency. In order to complete the corn sowing task this spring with quality and quantity, nearly 2,400 seeders of various types have been deployed and invested in Aksu Prefecture.
In Zhumadian City, Henan Province, wheat has entered the heading and flowering period, which is a critical period for the implementation of wheat "one spray and three preventions". The agricultural technology service team went into the field and explained to the growers the key points of pest control such as wheat stripe rust and scab. This year, a total of 11.71 million mu of wheat was planted in Zhumadian City, and the growth was better than in previous years.
In Nanchang County, Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province, early rice planting is in full swing. This year, the sowing area of early rice in Nanchang City is 1.918 million mu, and various agricultural machinery and tools have been invested in the local area to accelerate the sowing of early rice. At present, more than 1.3 million mu of early rice has been planted in Nanchang City, and about 7% of the planned sowing area has been completed.
Early rice planting is busy. In the rice field of Longteng Street, Tongcheng City, Anhui Province, the agricultural mechanic drives the rice transplanter to work in the field, and a cluster of seedlings slides down from the seedling tray in an orderly manner, neatly inserted into the paddy field, and the rows of planted seedlings are full of vitality. This year, the planting area of early rice in Tongcheng City is 85,000 mu, and the sowing mechanization has reached more than 90%, and it is expected that early rice transplanting and sowing will be completed in the second half of this month.
Huaibin, Henan: Cat's claw grass enters the full flowering period and ushers in the harvest in mid-May
A few days ago, 30,000 acres of cat's claw in Huaibin County, Xinyang City, Henan Province entered the full flowering period. Cat's claw is a perennial herb named for its tuber roots that resemble cat's claws. The tuber root of cat's claw can be used in medicine and has extremely high economic value. It is also a critical time for field management of cat's claw, which is manually removed because herbicides can be harmful to cat's claw. By mid-May, the cat's claw harvest will begin.