How to handle autumn and winter planting? The Ministry of Agriculture calls for timely implementation
Currently, more than 70 percent of the national autumn and winter planting has been completed. On October 23-24, Vice Minister of Agriculture Yu Xinrong went deep into Heze City and Liaocheng City in Shandong Province to investigate autumn and winter planting production. He stressed that autumn and winter planting is the first battle of the year's agricultural production, bears on the overall situation and is of great significance, and it is necessary to solidly advance the pace of autumn harvest and autumn planting, ensure sowing occurs in the suitable sowing period, effectively strengthen wheat field management before winter, ensure safe overwintering, and strive to achieve the goals of stable area, optimized structure, improved quality, cost savings and efficiency gains in this year's autumn and winter planting, laying a solid foundation for securing a good summer grain and oil harvest next year.
In places such as Yuncheng County of Heze City and Yanggu County of Liaocheng City, the newly planted wheat has already grown to about an inch high. According to reports, Shandong Province has had continuous low rainfall since September, with signs of drought emerging, and agricultural departments at all levels are currently advancing scientific drought resistance and vigorously grasping field management. Yu Xinrong analyzed the current autumn and winter planting production situation together with local agricultural officials in the fields and studied response measures. He stressed that against the background of deepening advances in changing the agricultural development model and adjusting the structure, the task of developing production and ensuring supply is heavier, and the responsibility of agricultural departments to strengthen production guidance is greater. All localities should speed up the pace of autumn and winter planting and focus on adjusting variety structure on the basis of stabilizing area. It is necessary to improve sowing quality, accelerate rush harvesting and rush sowing, carry out fine land preparation, sow an appropriate amount, and strengthen post-sowing compaction. It is necessary to change the development model and focus on key measures such as water conservation, fertilizer conservation and pesticide conservation. It is necessary to base efforts on disaster prevention and mitigation, resist drought to ensure full stands, control excessive growth to prevent freezing injury, and move the threshold forward to prevent pests and diseases. At the same time, strengthen the supply of agricultural inputs and scientific and technological guidance services, and, with carrying out green yield-increasing model research as the starting point, integrate and promote technical models that are high-yield and efficient, resource-saving, and green and environmentally friendly.
In the 200,000-mu wheat high-yield creation demonstration area in Yuncheng County, Yu Xinrong learned in detail about the construction of high-standard farmland. He stressed that, on the premise of absolute security of staple grain, it is necessary to explore the construction of high-standard staple grain fields under green and sustainable conditions, formulate and improve a set of basic standards, functional standards, technical standards, investment standards and so on that are long-term oriented and replicable, and gradually build a model of high yield and high quality, precision management and green development, so as to realize the organic combination of economic benefits, social benefits and ecological benefits.
⟦NL> During this period, Yu Xinrong attended a symposium on poverty alleviation work of the State Council. During investigations at places such as the Fengyuan Modern Agricultural Science and Technology Demonstration Park in Yanggu County and the National Black Donkey Breeding Center in Dong'e County, Yu Xinrong stressed that it is necessary to effectively grasp agricultural production, maintain stable market prices and balanced supply, closely combine with local realities, actively explore various forms of integrated development of the primary, secondary and tertiary industries, vigorously advance agricultural industrial poverty alleviation and targeted poverty alleviation, and blaze a path of poverty alleviation and development with strong industrial support, improved public services, innovative systems and mechanisms, and sustainable development.