Zhangjiachuan County Rong Media Center (Reporter Dou Miaomiao) Around us, there is such a person, in the eyes of colleagues, he is not like a leader, he is simple, kind, and more like his friend; in the hearts of the peasants, he is the most reliable friend of the peasants when they have difficulties in solving problems and growing grain. A friend in the eyes of colleagues, the "old Zhou" in the hearts of farmers is Zhou Zhiguo, the stationmaster of Zhangjiachuan County Agricultural Technology Service Station. He carried the solemnity of the years and reaped the vicissitudes of the world; he was unswerving, unswerving, ploughing the earth, ploughing the ideals, and interpreting the true meaning of the party spirit, conduct, and exemplary and the original intention of the communists with the most simple actions on the big stage of agricultural technology popularization work.
Zhou Zhiguo is a scientific and technological worker who came out of the countryside and returned to the countryside, he was born in the countryside, grew up in the countryside, and knew the needs of farmers, agriculture and rural development, after graduating from the Tianshui Agricultural School in July 1995, he returned to his hometown where he was born and grew up, and worked in the agricultural technology station under the County Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Bureau.
In April 2022, he was organized and arranged to serve as the person in charge of the Zhangjiachuan County Agricultural Technology Station. Since he served as the director of the agricultural technology station, he knows that the promotion of agricultural technology in the "three rural" work and the important position of the county's economic work, always strict with himself, he takes learning as a kind of cultivation, a responsibility, a pursuit, a realm, a habit, and has always insisted on constantly updating and improving his political consciousness and professional knowledge level. Zhou Zhiguo pays special attention to strengthening the construction of agricultural technology extension services, actively strives for the support of leaders, and strives to speed up the pace of reform of the grassroots agricultural technology extension system.
Zhou Zhiguo often said: "It is the mission and responsibility of our agricultural technicians to solve problems for farmers and continuously promote advanced technology for agriculture, and agricultural technology promotion is always on the road." He paid attention to research and research, regarded every time he went to the countryside to talk to the masses as a necessary content, and required all employees to think about what the masses think, do what the masses need, and achieve a target. He pays attention to front-line service, squatting in the countryside for more than half of the time every year, combined with the conditions of Zhangjiachuan region and natural resources, in the past three years, he has introduced more than 30 new varieties of crops, established more than 50 demonstration base points, and promoted more than 800,000 acres of new technology crops. He has organized and implemented high-yield projects for wheat and corn for many years, and integrated more than 20 comprehensive agricultural technologies such as excellent varieties, formula fertilization, seed coating-based plant protection technology, machine deep ploughing, and machine furrow sowing, which have greatly increased the yield level of the two major crops. He constantly discovered new problems and new needs in agricultural production, strengthened the experiment, introduction and popularization of advanced technology with the problems, and introduced new varieties of wheat and corn with high quality and high yield. He attaches great importance to the integrated development of agricultural machinery and agronomy, takes the modernization of the county's agriculture as the goal, establishes the idea of large agriculture, actively promotes the integration of agricultural machinery and agronomy, and introduces no-tillage wheat seeder, wheat rotary tillage fertilization and seeding machine, and wheat wide uniform seeder, which greatly promotes the mechanization level of grain crops in our county. Vigorously promote soil testing and formula fertilization technology, promote soil testing and formula fertilization of more than 620,000 mu in the county every year, preside over the completion of the grassroots agricultural technology service system construction project for three consecutive years, and actively carry out the promotion of waste agricultural film recycling, tail vegetable treatment, etc., laying the foundation for the development of green agriculture in the county.
Zhou Zhiguo attaches great importance to innovation, and has presided over and participated in the completion of 1 provincial science and technology project, 8 municipal science and technology projects, and 7 county science and technology projects. In January 2017, he was awarded the honorary title of county-level individual for the promotion of agricultural science and technology in the province by the Gansu Provincial Department of Human Resources and Social Security and the Gansu Provincial Department of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry, and in June 2019, he was awarded the honorary title of outstanding communist party member in the county by the Zhangjiachuan County Committee of the Communist Party of China. He has been awarded the honorary title of advanced worker by the Agriculture and Rural Bureau (Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Bureau, Agricultural Bureau) for 12 times. From 2013 to 2021, the annual assessment for 9 consecutive years was excellent. 1 scientific and technological achievement won the first prize of Gansu Province's agriculture, animal husbandry and fishery harvest, and 2 applied technology science and technology achievement awards. He said that the land is the best yardstick for testing scientific research technology, and whether the technology is good or not, you will know that as an agricultural technician, you must promote the most reliable technology to the peasants.
Only by caring for farmers can we take root in the countryside, and only by caring about agriculture can we dedicate ourselves to agriculture. Since the horn of rural revitalization sounded, as the first secretary of the village assistance, he went deep into Miaowan Village, Maguan Town to carry out the village assistance work, he wanted to bring agricultural technology to the grassroots, and he knew that the villagers of Miaowan Village needed him. During his stay in the village, he took root in the countryside, brought excellent crop varieties to Miaowan Village, trained farmers in advanced agricultural technology, and went down to the fields to explain crop cultivation, fertilization, pest control and other technologies to farmers, which was deeply loved by the villagers. With his help, Miaowan Village's agricultural technology has been greatly improved, and he has contributed to the construction of the village.
After 29 years of love and persistence, the former teenager has gray temples, but the heart that loves agricultural technology is still passionate, and the pace of action has been fighting in the front line of the county's agricultural technology promotion cause. A hard work, a harvest, since joining the work, he is interpreting the original intention of the Communists with his own actions, the responsibility and mission of agricultural technology extension workers, and his selfless dedication and service to the grassroots have won a good reputation and a good evaluation for themselves.
Jiang Li, an employee of the county agricultural technology station, told reporters: Stationmaster Zhou is sincere and modest, conscientious and responsible, good at uniting colleagues, and can fully mobilize the enthusiasm of our work, especially after the implementation of the socialized service project of agricultural production in 2022, he took us to conduct experiments in the field when the weather was fine, and went to the cooperative to guide the service of wheat and corn "farming, planting, management and harvesting" on rainy days. Although there are many projects, heavy tasks and few personnel in the agricultural technology station, under the leadership of Station Manager Zhou, everyone can perform their duties, cooperate with each other, and work together. As the saying goes, the train runs fast, all depends on the headband, under the leadership of the stationmaster Zhou, I hope that our agricultural technology extension work is thriving and going to a higher level.
Zhang Yanfeng, secretary of the party branch of Yueshan Village, Liangshan Town, said: "Stationmaster Zhou is down-to-earth in his work, and attaches great importance to the wheat production, demonstration base construction, and improved seed breeding in Yueshan Village, and organizes our masses to carry out training at any time to solve technical problems in production, so that the wheat industry in our village has changed from extensive production to improved seed breeding, and wheat seeds are sold for 5-6 dimes more per kilogram than rations, which has greatly improved the income of our farmers." In view of the problem of seed drying and drying in the process of wheat breeding, he actively coordinated the declaration of the project, and won the agricultural product drying field project, making up for the shortcomings in wheat production. ”
Li Yongfeng, the person in charge of the Manliang Cooperative, said that the stationmaster Zhou is pragmatic and can go deep into our cooperative to carry out technical guidance in a timely manner. For example, when he suffered from low temperature and frost damage in April 2023, he went to the front line with provincial and municipal experts without my knowledge, inquired about the pulse, and proposed solutions. Through project support, we have also introduced and distributed excellent varieties, machinery, fertilizers and other materials to us for the construction of wheat demonstration bases and the breeding of improved varieties. In the cooperative, a scientific and technological mission wheat industry group workstation was set up, and provincial experts were invited to carry out tour guidance to promote the upgrading of wheat in the demonstration base, and the wheat output increased significantly, and our farmers got real benefits.
In an interview with reporters, Zhou Zhiguo said: I was born in the countryside, grew up in the countryside, went to school in an agricultural school, and after graduation, I served in the county's "three rural" work, and I love the land where I was born and raised! In the past 29 years of work, under the training of party organizations at all levels, I have set strict demands on myself with the standard of a Communist Party member, devoted myself wholeheartedly to the county's agricultural technology extension work, led the technical team of the agricultural technology station, and devoted myself to serving the agricultural and rural work. The first is to resist the banner of food security, conscientiously implement the strategy of "storing grain on the ground and storing grain in technology", pay close attention to food security, and implement the five major scientific and technological measures to increase grain in "plastic film, seeds, plant protection, agricultural machinery, and fertile soil", and do a good job in improving grain yield; Fourth, we should do a good job in implementing industrial projects, such as dry farming and courtyard economy, as well as provincial and municipal agricultural projects, and implement these policies of the party and the government to benefit farmers.