Another Good Year, "Fengjing" Experience the Joy of Harvest from Data and Maps Rice | Seedlings | Joy
CCTV News: In a few days, it will be the grain of grain in the 24 solar terms. During the rainy season and the awning season, rice seedlings are planted in all four fields. Every household has beautiful wheat and rice, and Lingge grows everywhere. The awning season is the busiest time for farmers, as they not only harvest winter wheat but also plant rice, seizing the agricultural season and working hard. Let's open this week's "China Harvest Map" and continue to experience the busyness of this summer from the data and maps.
National Winter Wheat Harvest Progress Over 30%
Entering June, the national wheat has gradually entered the stage of concentrated harvest. At present, the country has harvested an area of 102.38 million mu of winter wheat, with a harvest progress of over 30%, and a daily machine harvest area of 20.98 million mu. The wheat harvest in Sichuan and Hubei is coming to an end, with nearly 60% progress in Anhui and over 50% progress in Henan. At this time, the "Three Summer" wheat harvest scene is bustling with enthusiasm. Looking at the spring sowing in Northeast China, the production of spring plowing in Heilongjiang has basically ended this week and entered the field management stage. The progress of rice transplanting in Jilin is also nearing completion.
The busy transplanting of rice seedlings in the paddy field brings a good harvest of the year
Now let's come to the territory of rice. When the rapeseed and wheat grains return to the warehouse and the land is once again plowed, farmers fill the fields with water, turning the earth into a mirror that reflects the romance of the sky. Here, waiting for new life to settle in - bundles of emerald green rice seedlings begin to breed new hope for a bountiful harvest.
Transplantation is the process of transplanting rice seedlings from the seedling field to the rice field, which is an important agricultural activity during the "Three Summers" season. So, why not plant rice seeds directly in rice fields? This is because by raising seedlings, "seedling babies" can grow healthier. When the small seedlings are strong enough, they can be transplanted to large paddy fields, which ensures better food production.
From south to north, Heilongjiang Province ranks first in rice yield on the rice map
On the world's rice map, China's annual rice cultivation area accounts for nearly 20% of the world's total, and its yield has remained above 200 million tons for many years, making it the world's largest rice producing country. For every ten bowls of rice produced worldwide, four bowls come from China.
In China, rice cultivation is widely distributed, spanning thousands of kilometers from Hainan Island to Heilongjiang, with three advantageous production areas in the northeast, middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and southeast coastal areas. In the main rice producing areas, 9 provinces have rice yields exceeding 10 million tons. Among them, the production champion is none other than Heilongjiang. In 2022, Heilongjiang's total rice production was 27.18 million tons, ranking first in the country. When it comes to the top rice planting area, it is Hunan, the land of fish and rice.
From the well-defined terraced fields of Yunnan and Guizhou to the flat black soil of Northeast China, and even the arid and rainless northwest, as well as the once barren saline alkali land, all have now become "fish and rice towns" for growing rice. "In the fragrance of rice flowers, there is a bountiful year, and listening to the sound of frogs is no longer exclusive to the south.". But there are still differences between the north and south. The south is warm, humid, and rainy, and rice can ripen twice a year; In the north, there is a large temperature difference and less rainfall throughout the four seasons, and only one season of rice is produced per year.
The efficiency of mechanical transplanting is 50 times higher than that of manual transplanting
Planting green seedlings all over the field, looking down, one can see the sky in the water. In the terraced fields of mountainous areas, skilled farmers still need to manually transplant seedlings. In the empty paddy fields, neat seedlings quickly stand up, while in the vast and open high standard farmland, it is a different scene. The unmanned rice transplanter shuttles through the field in an orderly manner, with bundles of seedlings separated from the seedling tray and neatly planted into the field. Mechanical transplanting can cultivate 50 acres of rice fields in a day, which is nearly 50 times more efficient than manual transplanting. In the process of blending with nature, humans have found the most suitable farming method, waiting for the fragrance of rice flowers to come.
The symbiosis in rice paddies nurtures double the hope
The agricultural wisdom of the Chinese people is not only reflected in seizing agriculture, but also in the unexpected neighbors of rice seedlings in the same paddy field. Raising crabs, snails, fish, and shrimp in rice paddies, through symbiosis, breeds double hope. While farmers work hard, flocks of egrets either fly over the sky or leisurely stroll and forage in the rice fields, becoming the most natural and harmonious pastoral scene of the "Three Summers" season.
About 120 days later, when the earth turns golden again, farmers will also welcome the joy of a bountiful harvest. Rice, an essential staple food on the Chinese dining table, is the soul of a meal. Whether Xinjiang hand pilaf, Guangdong Little pan rice, Taiwan braised pork, Fujian salty rice, Yangzhou fried rice, all kinds of rice are mainly rice, and the rich and satisfying taste will linger between the lips and the tongue, leaving endless aftertaste. And these deliciousness are all sweet flavors poured out by hardworking Chinese people with sweat. Only when carbon and water are free can we truly understand the heavy weight of the phrase "having food in hand, not panicking in the heart, Chinese people must firmly hold their rice bowl in their own hands". Looking forward to a good harvest this year, with a full warehouse.
