Make every effort to "seize grain at Longkou" - Various departments and regions take multiple measures to fight the tough summer harvest battle. Emergency response | Agricultural machinery | Department

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, June 10th (Xinhua) - Strive All Out for "Longkou Grains" - Various departments and regions take multiple measures to fight a tough summer harvest battle

Xinhua News Agency reporter

Spring competes for the day, summer competes for the time. In recent times, in the face of local adverse weather and other impacts, various departments and regions have taken multiple measures and strengthened their response, making every effort to fight the tough summer harvest battle. Currently, large-scale cross regional wheat harvesting is continuously advancing from south to north, and relevant regions are implementing comprehensive policies to seize grain at Longkou, striving to solidify the foundation for food security.

"People stop and machines don't stop" to ensure wheat harvest

Recently, Minquan County in Henan Province experienced continuous cloudy and rainy weather, which had a negative impact on wheat harvest. As soon as it clears up, the local authorities will quickly organize farmers to harvest and bake wheat.

At Wangfeng Agricultural Machinery Cooperative in Minquan County, the reporter saw that the combine harvester was working non-stop and the drying equipment was working non-stop 24 hours a day. The chairman of the cooperative, Zhang Guofeng, said that all 16 wheat combine harvesters have been put into production, adopting a "non-stop" and day and night approach to quickly deliver wheat to farmers' homes.

In order to improve the quality of grain storage, Minquan County has invested 18 grain drying equipment and arranged technical personnel to provide technical guidance and services 24/7 to ensure the normal operation of the drying equipment.

Recently, agricultural mechanic Wu Tianchang and his wife, who were working across different regions, drove a truck carrying a harvester on a highway heading north again. Chongqing, Hubei, Anhui, Jiangsu... The couple has been working on machine harvesting outside for over a month now.

"On this journey, we cross district harvest on the highway for free, and there is a service station at the operation point." Wu Tianchang told reporters in Jiangdianzi Town, Yingshang County, Fuyang City, Anhui Province that they will register cross district operation certificate information at the highway exit, and the local government will provide guidance for machine harvesting operations. Hao Shilong, the head of the Agricultural Comprehensive Service Station in Jiangdianzi Town, said that the county dispatches the work of township agricultural machinery operators every day to ensure that cross regional workers have work to do and avoid clustering.

The reporter learned from the Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of Anhui Province that since the wheat harvest this year, Anhui has experienced two consecutive rainstorms. The agricultural and rural departments have organized the "North Machine Southward, South Machine Northward Assistance" campaign, introducing machines and tools from Shandong, Jiangsu, Henan and other places, and investing in crop harvesting 24 hours a day without stopping.

According to the wheat harvesting schedule of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, as of 17:00 on June 9th, 204 million acres of winter wheat have been harvested nationwide, with a harvest progress of 67%. The daily harvest area is 17.8 million mu, and 271000 wheat combine harvesters were put into operation on the same day. The wheat harvest in Anhui has basically ended, with progress exceeding 90% in Henan, 60% in Jiangsu, 30% in Shaanxi, 30% in Shandong, and 10% in Shanxi and Hebei.

Multi department comprehensive implementation of policies to seize and bake

The sound of machines rumbling and the wheat waves rolling. Starting from June 10th, Pingyuan County, Dezhou City, Shandong Province, has shifted from sporadic harvesting to centralized harvesting.

Qi Qiang, Deputy Secretary of the Pingyuan County Party Committee, said that 12 "Three Summer" wheat harvesting emergency operation service teams have been established in the local area, and more than 70 agricultural machinery operation entities and more than 1800 wheat harvesters in the county have been fully equipped and ready for deployment. Meanwhile, the drying equipment of 22 drying enterprises has been repaired and can be put into use at any time as needed.

Li Nan, the head of the Agricultural Meteorology Department at the Shandong Provincial Climate Center, stated that in order to guide grassroots and farmers in timely harvesting, they have created a special report on wheat machine harvesting meteorological services, providing precise services for "Three Summers" production.

Faced with adverse weather conditions in some areas during this year's summer harvest, various departments and regions have taken multiple measures to strengthen their response.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs has issued a warning, proposing measures such as rushing to drain accumulated water in the fields, dispatching machinery to harvest, drying and drying, and disposing of sprouted and moldy wheat; Establish cross regional operation reception service stations, open the "Three Summers" agricultural machinery hotline, establish an emergency operation service team for agricultural machinery, and work together with transportation, ecological environment, emergency, meteorological and other departments to promote emergency recovery; Organize 12 experts from the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences to form 3 scientific and technological teams, and go to Zhumadian, Luohe, Xuchang, Zhoukou, and Xinxiang for on-site guidance.

China Grain Reserves Corporation urgently dispatched over 3000 grain machinery and equipment to assist Henan in dealing with the severe "rotten rain" weather, and carried out summer grain procurement to help reduce losses for food and agriculture.

Since late May, China Supply and Marketing Group has dispatched more than 20000 grassroots agricultural service outlets, more than 1300 service personnel to continuously fight on the field front line, and dispatched nearly 400 agricultural machinery and equipment to ensure agricultural production in many areas during the summer.

At present, it is a critical period for the "Three Summers" harvest and planting rush, and various parts of the country are about to enter the flood season comprehensively. The person in charge of the relevant departments and bureaus of the Ministry of Water Resources stated that they will solidly ensure agricultural production irrigation and take early measures to prevent water and drought disasters.

The meteorological forecast shows that in the next 10 days, most of the northern winter wheat areas will have sunny weather, which is generally favorable for wheat harvesting and sun drying, and the progress of wheat harvesting will accelerate.

Grasp the key links of disaster prevention and reduction

In recent times, in order to support the steady development of summer harvest and ensure the income of farmers, relevant departments and local governments have strengthened their investment in "real gold and silver".

In order to protect the "Central Plains granary", the Ministry of Finance has urgently issued a central government agricultural production disaster prevention and relief fund of 200 million yuan, supporting Henan Province in carrying out agricultural machinery harvesting operations on disaster stricken wheat fields, drying harvested tidal grains, and other disaster reduction and loss reduction related work;

Henan Province's finance department has urgently allocated 200 million yuan to support the mechanical drying of harvested wheat, and has urgently pre allocated 500 million yuan of financial premium subsidy funds to support agricultural insurance underwriting institutions in initiating rapid claims procedures;

The Agricultural Development Bank of China has arranged 110 billion yuan of credit funds for the purchase of summer grain, ensuring that there is no problem of "difficulty in selling grain" and "issuing IOUs" due to untimely funding supply;

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The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs stated that during the wheat harvest period this year, some areas in Henan and other major production areas have experienced "rotten rain", once again indicating that agricultural production is "going through five hurdles and six generals". It is necessary to strengthen awareness of risks and bottom line thinking, grasp the key of disaster prevention and reduction, prepare for risks in advance, and focus on long-term improvement of disaster prevention and reduction capabilities.

It is understood that relevant departments will make every effort to focus on the production of "three summers", guide local governments to continue to do a good job in harvesting and drying, establish a detailed provincial package mechanism, dispatch a working group to help coordinate and solve practical difficulties such as agricultural machinery allocation, drying and storage, and organize a scientific and technological team to go deep into the main production areas of summer broadcasting to carefully guide summer planting and management.