The "drought to water" project is an important measure to improve the quality and efficiency of land, and it is also a livelihood project that benefits the people. In recent years, the townships and towns in Xichang have actively promoted the construction of the "drought to water" project, and have improved land use efficiency, increased rural land income, and further promoted agricultural efficiency and farmers' income by changing dry land and wasteland into paddy fields, and embarked on a new "rice" road of rural revitalization.
Recently, the reporter walked into the site of the "drought to water" project in Ziku Village, Zhangmuqing Town, and saw pieces of curved and layered terraced fields, which meander from the top of the mountain to the foot of the mountain along the mountain.
According to Da Yu, deputy secretary of the Party Committee of Zhangmuqing Town, the land consolidation and drought-to-water conversion project of Ziku Village, Zhangmuqing Town, started on February 19, 2022 and was completed in October 2022, with a construction scale of 719.92 mu, and passed the state-level acceptance in December 2022, obtained the completion acceptance approval and acceptance certificate of the Liangshan Prefecture Natural Resources Bureau, and added 6.21 mu of cultivated land and 324.08 mu of drought-to-water index. After the completion of the project, the Xichang Agricultural Investment Company will transfer the drought-to-water area in a unified manner, manage and protect it for 3 years in strict accordance with the requirements of paddy fields, and plant at least one season of rice and other aquatic crops every year.
After the completion of the "drought to water" project in Ziku Village, Zhangmuqing Town, the cadres of the village group seized the agricultural time, organized the peasant households to prepare the land, harrow the fields, and raise seedlings, and the vast fertile soil is radiating vigorous vitality. It is reported that this year's seedling raising work has been completed, and rice planting will be carried out according to agricultural hours.
The "Drought to Water" project is a bold attempt by Xichang to conscientiously implement the spirit of comprehensive land consolidation in the province and prefecture and strive to break the bottleneck of the balance of cultivated land occupation and compensation. It is also of great significance to improve the quality of cultivated land, optimize the layout of agricultural production, realize a virtuous cycle of ecological and economic benefits, demonstrate and drive the adjustment of the surrounding agricultural industry structure, and promote rural revitalization.
In the future, Xichang will continue to make efforts in the implementation of the "drought to water" project to ensure that the masses can truly benefit from it, realize the "small and large plots of land", "dry land into paddy fields", and "low yield into high yield", and make every effort to promote rural revitalization.
Source: Xichang release