Zhang Chunhua: Sweat on the fertile soil, cultivating only for a greater harvest from the land
From starting work in 1996 to the present, Zhang Chunhua, head of the Plant Protection and Quarantine Station of the Fugong County Agriculture Bureau and a senior agronomist, has devoted his youth and heart and youth for twenty-one years without change, constantly rushing about on the front line of agricultural production, using countless technical training sessions in the fields to interpret the strong? sense of dedication and responsibility of "loving one's career without fearing hardship, and working with selfless dedication." Recently, at the 22nd Yunnan Province Model Workers and Advanced Workers Commendation Conference, Zhang Chunhua was awarded the honorary title of "Yunnan Province Advanced Worker."
May, the sowing season, is the busy farming season. During his time in the provincial capital receiving the commendation, Zhang Chunhua still had his heart set on the production work of the farmers and villagers in his hometown, worried that something might go wrong and prevent the village farmers? from sowing normally. Sure enough, as soon as he returned to the county seat, he learned that the rice seedlings in Zhiluo Village, Shiyueliang Township, had been damaged by disaster. He had not yet had time to celebrate properly with his family and colleagues, and family, before hurrying off to investigate? the seedling damage.
In 2007 and 2008, when disastrous weather such as late spring cold occurred in succession, and rice armyworms and corn underground? pests broke out on a large scale, Zhang Chunhua and his colleagues went every day to the disaster-stricken fields in various townships and towns to investigate the disaster situation, promptly formulate technical plans for resisting pests and diseases, put forward countermeasures on site, and guide villagers in carrying out production recovery, controlling the damage to a minimum.
From 2009 to 2011, Fugong County suffered three consecutive years of winter and spring drought. Facing the increasingly severe drought, according to the deployment of the county Party committee and county government, he bravely shouldered the heavy task of fighting the major drought, safeguarding people's livelihood, and promoting spring plowing. Zhang Chunhua went deep into various townships and towns, towns and villages to carry out drought relief and disaster relief work, understand what the masses needed, and solve the masses' difficulties. In order to effectively solve the problem of the masses? achieving full planting and full transplanting of large spring crops, during the day he rushed about in the fields, going deep into the fields to investigate the drought situation, and understand the masses' difficulties. During the day he rushed about in the fields, guiding the masses in technical guidance work for drought relief and self-rescue; at night he gathered the village's scientific and technological leaders, village committee directors, and Party branch secretaries to study and solve the problems encountered in drought relief work. After collecting the situation of the whole county, he promptly reported it to higher-level departments, striving for more disaster relief subsidy projects, and made his due contribution to the county's agricultural production in fighting disasters, reducing damage, and securing a bumper harvest.
For more than twenty years, whether in the cold windy twelfth lunar month or in the scorching summer heat, he appeared countless times in the fields regardless of the time period, leading the masses to seize the farming season and planting time. If pests and diseases occurred, then he had even more reason to "reside permanently" in the fields, investigating the occurrence of pests and diseases on site, clearly understanding the patterns of their occurrence, grasping their dynamics, fully using his solid professional and technical knowledge, comprehensively applying various modern statistical analysis and forecasting methods, scientifically and accurately analyzing and forecasting pest and disease occurrence trends, proposing safe and effective prevention and control technical plans and measures, recovering to the greatest extent the losses caused by pests and diseases, and safeguarding agricultural production safety.
"When the tsaoko flowers bloom in the tsaoko field, the weeds around them must be removed completely." "When it blooms, if not many bees come, add a little white sugar water to the sprayer and spray it on the flowers to attract bees to collect nectar and increase pollination, and then more fruit will set." ... Pu Yedu, a villager from Zhiluo Village, said that he learned all of this when attending the tsaoko planting training conducted by Zhang Chunhua.
Over the past 21 years, focusing on increasing agricultural production and efficiency, Zhang Chunhua has devoted himself to research and vigorously promoted applicable agricultural yield-increasing technologies. He has presided over and participated in more than 10 agricultural science and technology projects in total, making outstanding contributions to Fugong County's grain production, standardized and efficient cultivation of oil crops, pest and disease control, renewal and upgrading of improved varieties, and agricultural structural adjustment. The hybrid corn area in Fugong County expanded from 10,000 mu in 2001 to 60,000 mu, bringing the hybrid corn planting coverage rate in Fugong County to over 90 percent. During the promotion of comprehensive cultivation technology for ten thousand mu of rapeseed, he actively carried out training on high-yield cultivation techniques such as the use of improved varieties, hole dabbling and direct seeding, seedling raising and transplanting, increased application of boron fertilizer, and control of aphids, changing Fugong County's habit of broadcasting rapeseed and neglecting intertillage management; yield per mu increased from about 20 kg under conventional planting to 75.4 kg. In the promotion of pest, disease, weed, and rodent control technology, he promoted high-efficiency, low-toxicity, and low-residue pesticides, supporting technologies such as rotational use, alternating use, precise use, and safe use, popularized knowledge of standardized pesticide use, strictly observed the pre-harvest interval for safe pesticide use, and through rational pesticide use minimized the negative impacts caused by pesticide use. Through promoting and applying green control technologies such as ecological regulation, biological control, physical control, and scientific medication, he protected biodiversity, reduced the probability of pest and disease outbreaks, alleviated the losses from pest and disease damage, and safeguarded a bumper grain harvest and the effective supply of major agricultural products.
Villager Ge Sidui said gratefully: "Whenever crops are damaged by pests, Technician Xiao Zhang comes to bring us medicine and help us treat the crops. I have now also mastered some agricultural techniques and knowledge. This is all thanks to Technician Xiao Zhang's long-term training for us. I am truly very grateful to him."
"Seeing the farmers' joy at harvest is better than anything, and makes me happier than anything." With such persistent pursuit, Zhang Chunhua silently shed his sweat. Heaven rewards diligence; where there is cultivation, there is harvest. Over 21 years, Zhang Chunhua successively won many awards, including third prize for 12 major agricultural science and technology promotions in the province, second prize and third prize for provincial agricultural technology promotion, third prize for science and technology from the prefectural government, and the prefectural agriculture bureau's "Twelfth Five-Year" advanced individual award. In 2012 he was elected as a representative to the 11th County People's Congress and as an advanced worker of the second Nujiang Prefecture; in 2017 he was selected as a member of the 11th Prefectural Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.