In preparation for spring ploughing, land is the foundation. As the temperature rises, all parts of Jingzhou District have successively carried out spring plowing and preparation work, drought can be irrigated, waterlogging can be drained, the land is leveled, the soil is fertile, and the high-standard farmland that can implement mechanized operations throughout the whole process has maximized the comprehensive benefits of farmland, laying a solid foundation for farmland efficiency and farmers' income.
In Yanjiang Village, Libu Town, a two-meter-wide cement-hardened channel is interspersed with high-standard farmland, and the clear water canal next to the road is murmuring, and the mechanized plow road next to the channel is paved with gravel, and agricultural machinery can drive to any field. In the farmland, the drivers of the Gengcheng Vegetable Professional Production and Marketing Cooperative are working together, one person driving the fertilizer spreader to spread fertilizer, and one person driving the rotary tiller to turn the soil to prepare for the next step of sowing. The busy scene makes it hard to imagine that this land was previously unattended due to low-lying waterlogged.
"Before the construction of high-standard farmland, the 230 acres of farmland here in our village were prone to water accumulation due to heavy rain due to the low-lying terrain, and were not rationally used. After the construction of high-standard farmland, the land was leveled, the ditches were dredged, and the flooding was no longer affected. This season, we are going to plant corn, and the yield per mu is expected to be 1,800 catties. Zhou Ao, deputy secretary of the general party branch of Yanjiang Village, Libu Town, said.
Since the high-standard farmland construction project was settled in the village, the canals on this land have been repaired, the machine farming roads have been repaired, and the efficient irrigation has increased the enthusiasm of farmers for farming, and the low-yield land in the village has become a "big producer" of grain.
In 2024, Jingzhou District plans to achieve a grain sowing area of 707,000 mu. At present, high-standard farmland has become an important part of modern agriculture, and through scientific management and technological innovation, the productivity and sustainability of farmland have been improved, and a good start has been made to achieve high-quality agricultural development.
At the construction site in Manan Village, Mashan Township, operating machinery is stepping up operations in the field. Excavators, bulldozers and other large machinery work at full capacity to level the land and dredge the drainage canals. As far as the eye can see, the land that has completed the work is formed in large chunks, and the river is flat.
"Before, this place was all uneven, uneven small farmland, but the village's 1,300 acres of farmland was divided into 548 plots. We are now consolidating scattered plots of land through the method of 'small fields and large fields', and then the cooperatives can concentrate on planting, which can greatly improve our planting efficiency. At present, the land leveling work is about to be completed, and the next step will be the hardening of drainage ditches and road hardening, which is expected to be completed in mid-May. Liu Zaihua, deputy director of the Manan Village Committee, introduced.
This year, Jingzhou District plans to build 55,000 mu of high-standard farmland in Mashan Town, Chuandian Town, Taihugang Street and other places through comprehensive transformation such as land leveling, soil improvement, and field road construction.
"We will accelerate the progress of high-standard farmland construction, further improve the quality of cultivated land, realize the storage of grain on the ground and technology, consolidate the 'ballast stone' of food security, and increase the income of the people. The relevant person in charge of the District Agriculture and Rural Bureau said.