Planting Good Grains and Harvesting Busy - Experience of Rice and Shrimp Production in Multiple Areas during the "Three Autumn" Season | High Standards | Experience

Autumn grain production accounts for 75% of the total annual grain production. Approaching this year's Chinese Farmers Harvest Festival, reporters saw in major grain producing provinces such as Hunan, Jiangxi, and Heilongjiang that various measures were taken to plant good crops and promote income growth, and the fields were filled with the joy of a bountiful harvest.

High standard farmland hides harvest codes

As the autumnal equinox approaches, rice ears gradually become plump in 10000 acres of high standard farmland in Linan Town, Li County, Changde City, Hunan Province. Hu Jingming, a grain grower from Gaoyan Village in Linan Town, stood on the field ridge and grinned, saying, "I planted over 1000 acres of late rice this year, and it is expected to increase yield by 5%."

Hu Jingming told reporters that this year's harvest code is hidden in newly built high standard farmland. He calculated an account and said, "In addition to regulating the contiguous area, the government has also re planned ditches and machine plowing roads according to the needs of our large households, making agricultural machinery operations more convenient and reducing the cost of rice cultivation per season."

It is understood that in 2023, a total of 1.75 million mu of high standard farmland will be newly built and 1.7 million mu will be upgraded and renovated in Hunan Province.

The segmented harvesting site of the harvester in the comprehensive standardization demonstration area of rice planting in the third management area of Beidahuang Group Puyang Farm Co., Ltd.

The autumn wind blows, and in the Lingchangfeng management area of Baoquanling Branch of Beidahuang Agriculture Co., Ltd., mature rice rolls in layers of waves. Li Hongwei, a grain farmer, told reporters that he completed the construction of high standard farmland last year by planting 404 acres of paddy fields, making water and fertilizer management and agricultural machinery operations more convenient. "Last year, there was also a grid transformation, which increased the effective planting area by 12 acres. Last autumn, the total grain production increased by more than 12000 kilograms. This year is also a harvest year."

In the high standard farmland of Qinkou Village, Qinjiang Town, Shicheng County, Jiangxi Province, two harvesters shuttle back and forth between rice paddies. "The transformation from small fields to large fields has increased planting efficiency, lowered planting costs, and increased farmers' enthusiasm for growing crops," said Liu Shixian, Secretary of the Qinkou Village Party Branch.

It is understood that since 2017, Jiangxi Province has coordinated and integrated a total of 53.01 billion yuan in funds, and built 17.8585 million mu of high standard farmland. The built high standard farmland has basically achieved "square meters of farmland, interconnected channels, connected roads, dry energy irrigation, and flood energy drainage". The average grade of cultivated land has improved by 0.5, and the average grain production capacity per mu has increased by more than 100 kilograms.

Grasp the opportunity to collect and reduce losses, strive to return particles to the warehouse

In the golden September of autumn, the vast expanse of fertile land in the north is golden. At the rice plot in the Fuyuan management area of Beidahuang Group Junchuan Farm Co., Ltd., harvesters and windrowers are carrying out harvesting operations. Planter Yang Mingcheng, under the guidance of agricultural technicians, took the lead in opening the sickle and adopted a combination of direct harvesting and sun harvesting for harvesting.

Farmers in Yugan County, Jiangxi Province harvest regenerated rice in high standard farmland. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Chen Chunyuan

The deputy director of Fuyuan Management District stated to reporters that combining the two harvesting methods, the directly harvested rice is spread out and dried in the sun drying field, while the harvested rice is air dried in the field. This not only reduces the pressure on the sun drying field, but also greatly compresses the rice harvesting cycle, avoiding potential losses caused by extreme weather during the harvesting period. "Some rice plants have already matured, and harvesting them through sun drying can also prevent losses caused by excessive ripening and grain loss," the statement said.

The guarantee of agricultural machinery is crucial for autumn grain production. Wang Jiayun, Deputy Director of the Department of Agricultural Mechanization of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, said that in response to possible adverse weather during the "Three Autumn" production period, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs has recently deployed disaster prevention and relief work for agricultural machinery, requiring all regions to fully play the main role of agricultural machinery in agricultural production and emergency relief, and make every effort to prepare mechanized production equipment and teams for the "Three Autumn" period, providing strong support for the annual grain harvest.

Huang Mingqiang is a grain grower in Honglinghu Village, Yanwanghu Town, Hanshou County, Changde City, Hunan Province, and also a "agricultural machinery expert" in the county. During this period, he squatted in his own hangar every day with the agricultural machinery workers, debugging the fan system and threshing system of the harvester.

"In order to improve efficiency and speed up progress, some operators may adjust the power of the harvester's fan to a high level, which can lead to significant waste." Huang Mingqiang told reporters that under the previous extensive harvesting mode, about 50 kilograms were wasted per acre. Now, through careful debugging, the machine's harvesting loss is controlled within 2%, and about 3000 kilograms of rice can be harvested for every 100 acres of field.

It is understood that since last year, the Hunan Agricultural Machinery Affairs Center has continued to carry out propaganda and training on agricultural machinery loss reduction throughout the province, striving to control the rice harvest loss rate this year within 2.46%, lower than the national standard.

Green transformation and expansion of income growth space

Autumn wind rises, crab roe is fat. Villagers are busy fishing for the first batch of crabs this year at Tongjiang Wanmu Rice and Fish Base in Pangu Town, Jishui County, Jiangxi Province. Pouring each Chinese mitten crab into a basin, the head of the base, Wang Yin, exuded a joyful harvest on her face: "This year, the 2000 acre field adopts a rice crab rotation mode, with a crab yield of about 200 kilograms per acre and a gross profit of 12000 yuan per acre. The crab's excrement becomes organic fertilizer, resulting in higher rice yield and quality."

In order to promote the prosperity of villagers, Wang Yin led the establishment of the Runze Breeding Professional Cooperative in Jishui County, using a "company+cooperative+breeder" model to drive 14 surrounding villages and 507 households to invest and embark on the path of increasing income and wealth.

In recent years, Jiangxi has fully explored the resources of rice fields suitable for fishing, developed comprehensive cultivation of rice and fish, and integrated and promoted seven main cultivation models: rice shrimp, rice fish, rice frog, rice loach, rice turtle, rice crab, and rice snail. The scale has increased from 1 million mu in 2018 to 2.75 million mu currently, and the average income per mu has increased by more than 1500 yuan compared to single cultivation of rice.

In the rice shrimp field of Nanshan Village, Nanzhou Town, Nanxian County, Yiyang City, Hunan Province, rice grows happily.

The rice and shrimp in the Dongting Lake Plain have recently begun to harvest abundantly. The rice and shrimp farming area in Sanli Village, Mingshantou Town, Nan County, Yiyang City, Hunan Province is over 3000 acres, making it a well-known "rice and shrimp village". Since 2016, Zhang Dehui, the Secretary of the Village Party Branch, has been experimenting with rice and shrimp co cultivation. He has a profound "Rice and Shrimp Classic" in his heart: "Shrimp is used to loosen the soil, provide fertilizer, and ventilation for rice, while rice is used to provide bait and shade for shrimp, achieving a virtuous cycle of mutual benefit and symbiosis. Rice and shrimp have high yields and good quality, and are very popular in the market."

At present, the rice and shrimp cultivation area in Nanxian County has remained stable at 620000 acres. By creating a high standard concentrated and contiguous 10000 acre rice and shrimp demonstration base and a rice and shrimp industry demonstration park, we aim to expand greater income growth space for farmers through green production.

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