Don't miss the farming time to live up to the spring, and see the spring ploughing in a good year. After a few spring rains, it is a good season for spring sowing, and the agricultural machinery and equipment of the 10,000 mu dry farming demonstration base in the southern area of Tonghua Town, Zhuanglang are shuttled back and forth, rotary tillage, fertilization, sowing, and mulching...... Spring ploughing and spring sowing bursts of laughter and laughter, rippling in the fields from time to time.
Farmers are planting potatoes Photo by Cao Xiaocheng
Zhao Caimei, a villager in Xinzhuang Village, Tonghua Township, has been planting potatoes in the cooperative these days, and she has entrusted her family's land to a local agricultural socialized service organization, which is managed by the cooperative. The cooperative's participation has freed small farmers like Zhao Caimei from heavy agricultural tasks. "My family has 8 acres of land, which is transferred to the cooperative for planting, and now I work for the cooperative, and I can cook a meal when I go back at noon, and I do odd jobs for 80 yuan a day, and I have work to do every day. Zhao Caimei said.
Zhuanglang County 10,000 acres of dry farming demonstration base photo by Cao Xiaocheng
In order to make it convenient for farmers to cultivate and actively grow grain, the town has fully implemented the construction of dry farming bases, green planting and breeding circular agriculture pilot projects and socialized services, and built 8 industrial roads of 9.2 kilometers and 5.6 kilometers of desertification roads in the base, and provided support and guarantee for plastic film, fertilizer, seeds, etc., which further consolidated the industrial foundation. All this made Su Xinwang look at it, and in recent years, he began to transfer arable land to plant potatoes. "I have 680 acres of land in circulation this year, and 270 acres of potato seed potatoes are planted, and now the benefits are considerable. Township technicians on the land preparation, mulching, planting the whole process of technical service guidance, this period of rain rain, good moisture, 30 people a day to participate in planting, ready to plant the seed potatoes within half a month. Su Xinwang, head of Feiyao Planting Family Farm in Zhuanglang County, said.
Mechanically planted potatoes Photo by Cao Xiaocheng
After years of exploration, Zhuanglang County has embarked on a path of dry farming development with Zhuanglang characteristics based on "million mu" terraced fields. The county focuses on the side sowing technology of black full-film ridges, adheres to the coordination of the promotion of dry farming agricultural technology and the adjustment of agricultural structure, the matching of improved varieties and good methods, and the combination of agricultural machinery and agronomy, and takes agricultural efficiency and farmers' income as the goal, encourages the active participation of large grain growers, cooperatives, family farms and other new business entities, and firmly grasps the initiative of grain income.
"At present, the moisture is just right, at the critical moment of potato sowing, we promote the 'excellent variety + detoxified seed potato + black film cover + scientific fertilization + green prevention and control + mechanized farming' as one of the potato green, high-quality and efficient cultivation technology model, to promote the county's potato planting of more than 365,000 acres, and promote the sustainable and healthy development of the potato industry. Xie Wenbin, deputy director of Zhuanglang County Agricultural Technology Center, said.
Source: New Gansu