Sanmen County's early rice planting is entirely handled by large grain-growing households

    Sanmen County scored a "turnaround victory" in early rice production this year, with the county's sown area reaching 8,160 mu, an increase of more than 6,500 mu over last year, setting a new record for early rice production in recent years. And this more than 8,000 mu of early rice planting was entirely taken on by 26 large grain-growing households.

The intensified land transfer effort was the key factor behind Sanmen County's outstanding early rice production results. Since last year, the county has on the one hand stepped up land development and consolidation, and on the other hand promoted the orderly transfer of land contract management rights through public bidding, while tilting various subsidy policies toward large grain-growing households, with very obvious results.

According to reports, the county's early rice planting area this year is entirely concentrated in the hands of 26 large grain-growing households, with the largest planting area reaching 1,505 mu and the smallest at 30 mu. Large grain-growing households have become the "main force" of the county's grain production, enabling the promotion of a large number of advanced and applicable technologies such as mechanized rice transplanting, direct seeding and seedling throwing.

The orderly progress of land transfer has attracted considerable industrial and commercial capital as well as returning farmers to invest in early rice production. Zhai Changxing, a villager from Meiao Village in Xiaoxiong Town, had always been in business; after learning that the local land consolidation project had been completed, he contracted 1,000 mu of land in one go to plant early rice. Wang Congfu, a villager from Mazhuang Village in Liu'ao Town, had long contracted land in Shanghai; after the Liu'ao Nantang land consolidation project was completed, he rushed back to his hometown at the first opportunity to contract land, planting 1,505 mu of early rice this year and becoming the county's early rice "champion" this year.

In addition, the county also increased direct financial subsidies to grain farmers this year. Large grain-growing households can enjoy subsidy policies in areas such as selecting improved rice varieties, applying mechanized rice transplanting operations and receiving pest and disease "unified prevention and unified control" services from plant protection cooperatives, and can also receive grain reserve rewards. It is reported that with all the various subsidies combined, large grain-growing households can receive up to 290 yuan per mu in financial subsidies.

In order to publicize the various policies supporting agriculture and benefiting farmers thoroughly, the county's agriculture department put a great deal of thought into it, distributing more than 100,000 "clarity cards" to farming households throughout the county. The "clarity cards" not only print the various policies of the central government and the provincial, municipal and county governments at all levels supporting grain production, but also include support-agriculture service items, service content, service units and service hotlines, all complete. "We are very clear about the support policies and service items for grain production. With so much financial subsidy for growing grain, our enthusiasm for growing grain is naturally high," villager Chen Maopeng of Yuxi Village in Lipu Town told reporters. He planted 400 mu of early rice this year, and making 40,000 to 50,000 yuan should be no problem.