Source: Economic Daily
It is the wheat harvest season of another year, and the land of Jianghuai is full of scenes of grabbing summer grain.
On the morning of June 8, this reporter went to Zhanghuai Village, Jiuxian Town, Taihe County, Fuyang City, Anhui Province, and met Xu Shuxiang, a 70-year-old grain grower and senior agronomist, standing in a golden wheat field, his face full of joy of harvest.
"This year is another harvest year", Xu Shuxiang casually folded a wheat ear from the wheat field, counted the full ears on it, "this ear has 54 ears on it, generally more than 40 ears belong to the harvest year." ”
The high yield of wheat is inseparable from the mastery of science and technology. Xu Shuxiang, who has been cultivating land for decades, told reporters that the high yield of wheat must first rely on scientific and technological breeding and selection. This year, he selected 3 varieties, namely Annong 0711, Xinmai 26 and Fuhangmai No. 1, "'Fuhangmai No. 1' is the first new variety of wheat bred in space in Anhui, with the characteristics of short stalks, large ears, strong disease resistance, and large elasticity of the sowing period, which is more suitable for local needs." Xu Shuxiang said.
Also tasting the sweetness of excellent varieties is Fan Hengjin, head of Hengjin Family Farm in Taihe County. He transferred 4,700 mu of cultivated land in and around Fanmiao Village, Jiuxian Town, Taihe County, and this year also achieved a bumper harvest.
Fan Hengjin told reporters at the edge of the wheat field that the wheat planted here is a new variety of Hengjin Wheat No. 8 that they have selected and bred for many years, which better solves the problem that the disease resistance and yield of wheat varieties are difficult to combine, and in different years, they have shown high yield and stable yield characteristics, not only the characteristics of resistance to gibberellosis are outstanding, but also have the characteristics of cold resistance, fall resistance, disease resistance, dry and hot wind resistance.
"The 4,500 mu of wheat we planted this year has a high-yield field yield of about 740 kg per mu, and the average yield per mu is more than 550 kg." Fan Hengjin said that this wheat belongs to medium and strong gluten wheat, which is especially suitable for making ramen, so the price per kilogram is about 7 cents higher than that of ordinary wheat.
Good seeds are the first step to ensure high yields, and other scientific and technological factors such as soil testing and formula fertilization, and accurate spraying of anti-pest drugs by drones have also played a positive role in the planting process.
Xu Songxiang said: "Last year, when we sowed in winter, we invited experts from the Provincial Academy of Agricultural Sciences to conduct soil testing and formula fertilization, and targeted fertilization of wheat according to the soil fertility situation not only has a good effect, but also saves 20% of the amount of chemical fertilizer used than usual." ”
"In addition, in recent years, the state has increased investment in farmland infrastructure, drilled wells in wheat fields, built drainage channels, and can be watered and drained in drought. Over the years, the wheat planted can be harvested in drought and flood. Xu Shuxiang told reporters.
The reporter noted that at present, the mechanization of wheat field harvesting has been very high. In a wheat field of more than 40 acres, two combine harvesters eat wheat while spitting out wheat bran, and it takes less than 20 minutes to harvest all of them.
Anhui is one of the main wheat-producing areas in the country, and this year the province planted 42 million mu of wheat. The reporter learned that in order to promote the production of high-quality special wheat and improve the level of yield, the Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of Anhui Province carried out the activity of finding the "highest yield of wheat in Anhui Province" this year. On June 3, a high-yield demonstration field in Fanying Village, Yingquan District, Fuyang City was accepted, and the yield reached 851.05 kg. On June 5, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs organized a national wheat industry system expert group to measure the yield of three wheat high-yield fields in three townships in Woyang County, Bozhou City, showing that the average yield of the three fields was more than 800 kg, of which the highest was the "Ceres Wheat 19 Varieties" wheat field located in Xinxing Town, with a yield of 860.6 kg. (Economic Daily-China Economic Network reporter Liang Rui)