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Jinan, July 26th, Xinhua News Agency (Xinhua) - The Fragrance of Wheat on the Land of Qilu - Scanning for the "Three Increase" in Area Yield and Total Production of Shandong Summer Grain

Xinhua News Agency reporter Shao Kun

The National Bureau of Statistics recently released national summer grain production data for 2023. Shandong's summer grain production is showing a trend of "three increases" in area, yield per unit, and total output, continuing to play the role of an important supply area for national grain sources. How can Shandong achieve such results in the face of unfavorable production factors this summer?

All levels of party and government attach great importance to high-yield, and good news frequently spreads

Just after the Spring Festival this year, the main leaders of the Party and government at all levels in Shandong came forward to command and arrange the deployment of grain production work. The Shandong Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs has implemented a leadership assistance and contact mechanism, with 8 groups assigned to the front line to supervise the implementation of various policies related to wheat field management; More than 100000 experts and grassroots agricultural technicians visited villages and households to help farmers increase wheat grain weight.

Cai Xiangdong, a major grain grower in Caijia Village, Sun Town, Zouping City, said, "Following agricultural technicians and scientific management not only saves money and effort, but the key is not to panic." Last autumn, he adopted the main content of "appropriate timing, appropriate moisture content, appropriate amount, appropriate depth, and post sowing suppression" sowing technology under the advice of the agricultural department, and the sowing quality was significantly better than in previous years.

In mid to late June, Shandong Province experienced sustained high temperatures. The Shandong Provincial Government coordinated with the Shandong Yellow River Water Affairs Bureau, Water Resources Department, and others to increase the monthly water use plan for key areas to divert water from the Yellow River, fully supporting emergency drought relief work and ensuring the demand for agricultural production water in the province.

Statistical data shows that the sowing area of summer grain in Shandong is 60.1485 million mu, an increase of 78000 mu year-on-year, accounting for 15.1% of the total sowing area in the country; The yield per mu is 444.6 kilograms, an increase of 4.83 kilograms year-on-year, which is 21% higher than the national average yield per mu; The total production is 53.48 billion kilograms, an increase of 650 million kilograms year-on-year, accounting for 18.3% of the total national production.

The wheat variety "Yannong 1212" achieved a field test result of 880.89 kg/mu in Laizhou City, Yantai, and achieved the best result in this year's Shandong Province Wheat High Yield Competition; More than 80% of the 1.2 million mu "ton and a half grain" core area in Dezhou City produces over 650 kilograms of wheat per mu; In the first year of the establishment of the "ton and a half grain" production capacity in Liaocheng City, more than 90% of the 325000 mu demonstration area plots produced over 650 kilograms of wheat per mu.

Fine classification management policies provide protection and protection

"People are diligent and not lazy. The key to good seedling growth depends on management. Cropland won't deceive people. If you care about it, it will give you back." Looking back at spring plowing and spring management, Sun Dedong, the person in charge of Qingfu Agricultural Complex in Liutuan Town, Changyi City, said, "Step on the node to supply water and fertilizer, and with the help of technology, even though this used to be saline alkali land, the average yield of wheat per mu this year is 590 kilograms."

Wheat harvested from Qingfu Agricultural Complex. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Shao Kun

Different types of planting fields have differences in growth stages, and the management methods for wheat are also different. Last year, the Shandong Agricultural Technology Promotion Department organized the implementation of "promoting roots and tillering, promoting weak and vigorous control, cultivating strong seedlings, optimizing populations, and ensuring safe overwintering of seedlings" before winter. This spring, "preventing spring freezing, preventing spring drought, early weeding, and controlling vigorous growth", guiding farmers to implement policies based on local conditions and seedlings, and setting up a high-yield framework.

Good management brings good harvest. This year, the area of high-yield wheat fields and the yield of dryland wheat in Shandong Province have significantly increased, becoming a key factor in the dual increase of summer grain yield and total yield. Yang Wujie, Director of Shandong Agricultural Technology Promotion Center, introduced that the area of medium to high yield fields in Shandong Province, which yield 400-600 kilograms per mu this year, has increased by 1.9343 million mu compared to last year, accounting for 69.7%; The yield of dryland wheat has significantly increased, with over 13 million mu of dryland wheat in the province, with an average increase of 5.5 kilograms per mu; Low yield fields have significantly decreased, with a field area of only 551300 acres yielding less than 200 kilograms per mu.

In order to protect and mobilize the enthusiasm of local governments to focus on grain production and farmers to grow grain, Shandong continues to increase policy support for grain production. For cities that have completed last year's grain production tasks, combined with annual project arrangements, priority will be given to the top five cities with a reward of 10 million yuan per city; Nearly 8 billion yuan has been allocated for land fertility protection subsidies, 760 million yuan has been allocated as one-time subsidies for actual grain farmers, and 480 million yuan has been allocated for agricultural production and disaster relief at or above the provincial level.

Disease and insect prevention and control awesome machine harvest loss reduction and production increase

This spring, Shandong Province has invested more than 600 million yuan and dispatched 120000 professional and technical personnel to conduct a survey on the occurrence of wheat stripe rust. The province has carried out a "one spray, three prevention" campaign on wheat, covering an area of 91045900 acres, achieving full coverage of wheat planting area.

Yang Wujie introduced that this year, Shandong has controlled the area of wheat stripe rust to 5016 acres, with the lightest occurrence in 10 years and the best control effect in 10 years, building a strong defense line for summer grain harvest.

Wang Guangxuan, a grain grower in Linshu County, Linyi City, told reporters that the average yield per mu of 400 acres of land planted has increased by more than 200 kilograms compared to last year. He said that despite encountering diseases and pests in the early stage, timely "one spray, three prevention" and effective management in the later stage have led to a general increase in wheat production in the local area this year.

Harvest is both managed and snatched back. For five consecutive days, 6 million mu of wheat was harvested daily, and the front and back of the house, as well as the cultural square, became temporary wheat drying grounds. During the wheat harvest period, "racing against the rain" became the main theme of Shandong's wheat harvest.

On June 6, 2023, the Shandong Wheat Harvest and Loss Reduction Skills Competition was held in Linshu County, where agricultural machinery drivers drove harvesters to compete in machine harvesting and loss reduction skills. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhu Zheng

Wheat harvesting is a crucial step towards achieving a bountiful summer harvest. Shandong Province organized 190000 wheat combine harvesters and 240000 corn seeders to participate in the "Three Summers" campaign, achieving a wheat machine yield of 99.8% and a corn machine sowing rate of 99.2%, with significantly higher operational efficiency than in previous years.

"Reducing losses is equivalent to increasing production." Wang Naisheng, Director of the Agricultural Mechanization Management Department of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of Shandong Province, introduced that this year we organized a large-scale wheat harvesting and loss reduction competition in 61 counties, with an average loss rate of 0.89%; In the sampling and monitoring of counties and cities with a wheat planting area of over 500000 mu, the average loss rate of 465 sampling points was 1%, which is 1 percentage point lower than the operating loss standard.