At present, it is the season of early rice transplanting, and the large grain growers in Xintianpu Town, Xinshao County, Hunan Province have seized the agricultural time, manpower and machine to carry out early rice transplanting operations, weaving a busy picture of spring ploughing.
On April 7, walking into the field of Chengshantou Ecological Agriculture Professional Cooperative in Xinguang Village, Xintianpu Town, Xinshao County, several members were busy stacking the raised seedlings neatly on the rice transplanter. Subsequently, the rice transplanter loaded with seedlings shuttles back and forth in the paddy fields under the skillful operation of the agricultural mechanic. Accompanied by the sound of the "da-da" engine, the tender green seedlings slipped off the seedling tray of the rice transplanter one after another and were evenly inserted into the paddy field, paving a layer of "new green" for the rice field. Not far away, the rice transplanters hired by the cooperative are methodically carrying out manual planting operations, and the whole base is busy with labor.
"This year, our cooperative plans to plant more than 2,000 acres of early rice, mainly in several villages in Xintianpu Town and Xiaotang Town. Bi Guoyu, head of the Xinshao County Chengshantou Ecological Agriculture Professional Cooperative, introduced that the current base is mainly based on mechanical farming, and for some small and scattered fields that are not suitable for mechanized operation, the man-machine collaborative farming mode is adopted to ensure that the basic farmland is not barren.
According to Bi Guoyu, the cooperative has purchased and introduced more than 10 sets of large-scale agricultural machinery and equipment such as rotary tillers and rice transplanters, and established a well-known "pioneer machine farming team" with party members as the pioneer. At present, not only does its own cooperative realize the whole process of mechanization, but also helps other large grain growers to carry out mechanized operations.
In recent years, the Party Committee of Xintianpu Town, Xinshao County, attaches great importance to the safety of grain production, and promotes the transformation of traditional agriculture to modern agriculture by increasing subsidies and vigorously promoting advanced agricultural machinery. In order to ensure the smooth progress of this year's spring ploughing production and promote the continuous increase of farmers' income, since the beginning of spring this year, the town has given full play to the leading role of party building, and the chief, team leader, and neighbor chief have gone to the village to publicize extensively, actively mobilize the enthusiasm of farmers for grain planting, and mobilized funds to carry out comprehensive management and protection of the town's paddy fields and canals and other facilities, laying a solid foundation for spring ploughing production; The difficulties encountered in ploughing, and according to the specific situation of rice seedlings, targeted guidance is carried out to guide growers to carry out scientific field management. It is understood that this year, the town plans to complete the planting area of more than 22,000 acres of early rice, and it is expected that all the early rice transplanting operations can be completed before May. (Qu Ling, Furong, Jin Zhijun, Tang Wenfeng, Tan Qingyu)
Note: This article was originally published in "China.com"
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