Longxi financial media reporter Lin Yangtian: It's May, and it's also the potato planting season. At present, we have come to the potato breeding base in Fuxing Town, and we have also seen the busy figures of farmers in the farmland, so we will follow our footsteps and see how high-quality potatoes are grown.
When I came to the potato seed multiplication base in Chonghe Village, Fuxing Town, I saw that the high-standard farmland was covered with black mulch, and the workers were grabbing the potato seed potatoes on demand during the agricultural season. Gong Shuzhen, secretary of the Party branch of Chonghe Village, Fuxing Town, and head of the Santai Sheep Breeding Farmers' Cooperative in Longxi County, is touring the fields to guide workers to standardize scientific sowing.
Lin Yangtian, a reporter from Longxi Financial Media: Hello Secretary Gong, we have seen this way, our mulch film is black, and then the original seeds of the potatoes we sowed are also black, is there anything special about this?
Gong Shuzhen, head of the Santai Sheep Breeding Farmers Cooperative in Longxi County: Because we are now using this black film, the first is to prevent weeds, and the second is to improve our potato yield. Our original potato seeds are mixed with "potato stewards", and if they are mixed with "potato stewards", they will sprout and grow together, and can also prevent aphids and potato rhizomes from rotting. This year, we mainly plant varieties such as Qingshu No. 9, Longshu 15, Longshu 10, and Longshu 12 (this).
Since 2017, Gong Shuzhen, the person in charge of the Santai Sheep Breeding Farmers Cooperative in Longxi County, began to transfer land in Fuxing Town for large-scale, standardized and improved potato planting. At present, the potato planting area of the cooperative has expanded to more than 1,000 acres.
In order to achieve a bumper potato harvest this year, the cooperative carried out mechanized deep ploughing and mulching of 1,000 acres of circulating land in advance to protect moisture. In order to better ensure the quality of seed potatoes, in addition to some self-breeding potato varieties, the cooperative also purchased a certain number of potato seeds from Gansu Yuxin Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Technology Co., Ltd. The cooperative also specially invited the technical personnel of the county seed station to provide technical guidance to improve the scientific potato planting level of the cooperative.
Guan Qingxia, director of Longxi County Seed Station: Today all the staff and technicians of our seed station have come to this base, mainly in this base as the county's potato 100 acres of research, what we are mainly doing today is to introduce a new variety, preparing to introduce 32 new varieties, and display 8 varieties of the introduction. Through black film mulching, scientific fertilization, green prevention and control of pests and diseases, and mechanized farming, we have further improved the production level and production capacity of the entire potato base, playing a role in demonstration and driving.
In recent years, based on the advantages of natural conditions, combined with market demand, and closely focusing on the goal of "increasing agricultural efficiency and farmers' income", Longxi County has continued to promote the potato industry to embark on the road of scientific layout, large-scale planting, specialization of varieties, production standardization, industrialization of operation and deepening of processing. The annual potato planting area of the county is about 340,000 mu, of which about 25,000 mu are early-maturing potatoes, and the potato seed rate is more than 80%, forming a late-maturing potato planting structure dominated by Longshu No. 7, Longshu No. 10, Qingshu No. 9, etc., as well as Holland No. 15 and Xisen No. 6. The total annual output of potatoes in the county reaches 40-500,000 tons, and the annual output value is more than 700 million yuan. This year, the county plans to build 3 potato breeding bases of more than 1,000 acres and 9 standardized potato planting bases of more than 500 acres. At present, potato planting in the county has been in full swing, and it is expected that all sowing will be completed in early June.
Longxi Rong Media All-Media Reporter Mo Hongxia Lin Yangtian