Nowadays, walking into the Weiyuan County concentrated continuous potato mechanization demonstration site breeding base located in Yuanming Village, Lianfeng Town, Weiyuan County, the high-standard farmland on one side is vast and flat, and the potato branches are lush and vigorous, and the science and technology correspondent is conducting face-to-face field technical guidance to provide technical help for improving potato yield and quality.
It is the flowering and tubing period of potatoes, which is a critical period for potato field management, where the loud roar of tractors is constantly echoing, and the soil is being subsoiled. At the same time, with the roar of the motor, the plant protection drone loaded with chemicals took off into the air, rotating and panning...... Under the skillful operation of the operator, the plant protection drone shuttles back and forth for flight defense operations. The mist pesticide is sprayed from the body, accurately and evenly sprayed on the leaf surface, forming a fog curtain, and in just ten minutes, the drone has completed the spraying of several acres of potato fields.
It is understood that this year, with the support of relevant policies benefiting farmers, Gansu Weishui Hongyuan Agriculture and Forestry Technology Co., Ltd. introduced advanced machinery and equipment such as potato ridge mulching and film planting machine, soil mulching machine, weeding and spraying machine, etc., in the construction of the base, through the application of "detoxification and improved seed + plastic film covering + formula fertilization + mechanical farming + pest control" potato integrated planting technology, to build a thousand acres of continuous potato planting base, to achieve a full mechanized operation rate of more than 95%, and comprehensively improve the scale, standardization and intensification of potato planting, mechanization level, effectively promote the integrated development of the potato industry, and embark on a road of potato planting and development of "characteristic industries + scientific and technological support + strong villages and rich people".
The base is based on the work idea of science and technology to help agriculture, vigorously popularize and promote modern scientific and technological planting management methods, seize the key period and key nodes of prevention and control, improve the level of mechanization and intelligence of agricultural production, and through the promotion and application of high-tech technology, the total output of potatoes is expected to reach more than 3,000 tons, and truly help improve the quality and efficiency of agricultural production with modern science and technology, realize agricultural production and farmers' income, and empower rural revitalization. "This year, in accordance with the implementation plan of the socialized service project for the development of agricultural industry in Weiyuan County in 2024, the equipment manufacturing science and technology service group guided Gansu Weishui Hongyuan Agriculture and Forestry Technology Co., Ltd. to build a 1,000-acre centralized continuous potato mechanization demonstration site in Yuanming Village, Lianfeng Town, and adopted mechanized control in the whole process of farming, planting, prevention and harvesting, and increased the promotion of improved seeds, the application of advanced equipment and scientific plant protection, which effectively improved the yield and efficiency of potato planting." Science and technology correspondent Gan Yali introduced.
In recent years, relying on resource advantages and industrial foundation, Weiyuan County has focused on the key links of the potato industry, taking the socialized service project of agricultural production as the starting point, accelerating the mechanization, scale and intensification of potato production in the county, taking the high-end, intelligent and green industry as the direction, insisting on strengthening the leader, supplementing the chain and gathering groups, continuously improving the efficiency of potato production, and promoting the high-quality development of the potato industry.
Reporter: Wang Yaxiong Correspondent: Feng Xiaohua, Gan Yali, Mu Yanjun