With the return of spring to the earth, the wheat returned to green and heading, and by the end of April, the local wheat fields in Wen County, Jiaozuo City, Henan Province had entered the flowering period in a large area.
It is also currently the busiest phase of wheat breeding trials.
In a 10-acre square breeding field, wheat seedlings are arranged in a tight and orderly manner in a small "square", and the various arrays show different forms of high and low due to the different paternal and female parents of the hybrid. In the wheat field, several female workers wearing straw hats are carefully handling the stamens on the wheat ears with tweezers in their hands, and after the hybridization "surgery", they are put on the hybridization bags for professional marking.
"Seeds are the 'chips' of agriculture. Ears of wheat of excellent quality can produce nearly 100 wheat grains in one tree, and the grains are full. As the scientific research leader of this field, Shen Yanchang held one of the thickest ears of wheat in the field and told reporters that at present, in the flowering period, the staff need to manually pollinate the mother wheat one by one. After the hybridization is completed, wait for the seeds to be laid, and then carry out the growth experiment the following year.
"Such an excellent wheat seedling is the product of five years of growth and breeding. But even so, the breeding process is not over. A high-yielding, disease-resistant, high-quality new variety often takes about ten years to cultivate, and the best is selected from thousands of hybrid combinations. Wheat breeding is a long process. Shen Yanchang said.
This breeding plot, which has invested manpower, material and financial resources for many years, is not an experimental area of any research center, but belongs to Wenxian Yutian Agricultural Planting Professional Cooperative.
Zhu Lejun, chairman of the cooperative, told reporters that as a seed industry cooperative integrating breeding, multiplication and promotion, Yutian Agricultural Planting Cooperative currently has 5 new varieties of wheat, of which the self-bred varieties "Wenyu No. 3" and "Wenyu 709" have become the main varieties.
Good grain comes from good seeds, and good seeds depend on breeding. In addition to field breeding, the agricultural production method of Yutian Agricultural Planting Cooperative full of "science and technology" has attracted the attention of reporters.
In the wheat field of Yutian Agricultural Planting Cooperative, you can see monitors and cameras set up in the field, and behind them is the first wheat seed industry big data center set up by Wen County in Henan.
According to reports, the Wenxian wheat seed information public service platform can realize the integration of wheat breeding, multiplication and promotion in Wenxian County through the docking of the national seed industry big data platform, comprehensively display the historical data and development trend of Wenxian wheat seed production county, and provide real-time information such as field farming, moisture and disaster for seed farmers.
In recent years, the promotion and application of the wheat seed information public service platform in Wenxian County has not only reduced the risk of agricultural production, improved the efficiency of agricultural decision-making, but also helped farmers increase production and income, and achieved more efficient water and fertilizer and plant protection, so that wheat production water and fertilizer can save 10%-15%, increase yield by 5%-10%, and increase the average income per mu by more than 100 yuan. Through advanced digital agriculture technology, the scientific and technological content of agricultural products has been greatly improved, bringing higher economic benefits.
In the next step, Wenxian County will continue to play a leading role in the demonstration of Wenmai varieties, and create a model of smart agriculture through data sharing and exchange and big data applications, and call the "Wenmai" brand.
Wenxian Rong Media Center reporter Zhang Hao reported
Image source: "Wen County Today" database