Source: Qinhuangdao Daily
The warehouse of Ruige Grain Planting Cooperative is full of sacks of seeds and fertilizers, and technicians are maintaining some huge agricultural machines in the workshop, preparing for the spring ploughing.
Preparing for the production materials in advance to prevent cooperatives from being affected by the epidemic.
Various agricultural machinery with complete and stable performance are the guarantee of spring sowing operations.
Tao Xianglin, director of the cooperative, said that the impact of the epidemic on the company’s purchase of seeds and fertilizers was not severe, because most of them had been prepared before the Spring Festival, except a little short of fertilizers. Due to the poor logistics and transportation caused by the epidemic, the manufacturers could not transport the goods. In order to fill the gap, fertilizers can only be transferred through distributors, which increases the cost. “This year we have prepared spring wheat seeds of 1900 mu and 67-ton chemical fertilizers. In addition, the soil moisture content is very good, and we are planning to start in advance.”
Plan the year in spring.
On the morning of February 24, the reporter came to Yangfengtai Village, Longjiadian Town, Changli County again as promised. On the vast land, three large tractors were carrying out the rotary tilling operation with the rotary tiller and seeds in the strong wind, and the other was spraying fertilizer. The cooperative has plowed the land in the autumn harvest of corn last year, and the corn knots have been crushed in soft soil to serve as organic fertilizer. This is the advantage of modern agriculture.
Tao Xianglin said that three machines operating in different areas at the same time can finish more than 100 mu of land a day, and the sowing of 1900 mu of spring wheat can be completed in another ten days.
Photo by Ma Weiqing, Jiang Tao
In the past few days, members of the Voluntary Mutual Aid Team of the No. 2 Peigezhuang Village, Xinji Town, Changli County helped the potato growers plant seeds. It is the season for planting greenhouse potato, 7 Voluntary Mutual Aid Teams composed of party members and activists help farmers in need to do the spring farming while doing a good job in the epidemic prevention and control, which reduced the cross infection risk of people movement and relieved the farmers.
Photo by Li Duo, correspondent Tong delong
On February 21, workers of Fulinrui Fruit and Vegetable Plantation Cooperative in Lulong County are busy cultivating tomato seedlings.
Photo by Ma Weiqing, correspondent Zhang Jiliang
On February 21, a man is connecting the main pipes for heating the sweet potato seedling beds in the greenhouse of Qinhuangdao Agricultural Credit Professional Service Cooperative in Dadaoshang Village, Mujing Town, Lulong County. This cooperative uses ground heating to raise seedlings this year. The seedlings look nice with high seeding rate and high disease resistance rate due to the even heat.
Photo by Ma Weiqing, correspondent Zhang Jiliang
Fu Hemin, a farm agents, is measuring the farmers’ leeks one by one.
Weighing, loading, booming in the greenhouse
On February 20, a van was parked on the non-motorized lane of Ninghai Avenue. People were loading the van with a simple and lightweight small battery hoist with electronic scale. Some electric tricycles loaded with leeks were waiting in line.
Fu Hemin said that he would transport the leeks to Inner Mongolia with the van he leased. Due to the impact of the epidemic, customers’ car could not enter the village. Cuitieying Village is a leek planting village, and every household has leek greenhouses of about 10 mu. Now it is the second harvest, and it is the season of the full harvest of leeks, but they are blocked, and vegetable farmers are anxious about the situation.
The wholesale price of 1 yuan to 1.3 yuan is a little lower than in previous years, but vegetable farmers don’t care. It is good enough to find a buyer. Fu Hemin said that 4 vans of leeks can be brought out each day, 7.5 tons per van, and it is not bad.
On the morning of February 24, the reporter came to Cuitieying Village, and followed Fan Shengmin, secretary of the village party branch, to a greenhouse after taking temperature and registration at the checkpoint of the village, finding that dozens of villagers were busy cropping and wrapping the green leeks in a clear division of work. This greenhouse belongs to Fan Fuyuan, who said that 30 villagers were working here, and they help each other in turn for free.
Fan Shengmin introduced that Cuitieying Village is a professional leek planting village. There are more than 180 greenhouses, over 150 spring greenhouses and bare land on the existing 600 mu of arable land, which are all planted with leeks, occupying all the villagers’ agricultural activities. Three crops of leek each year yield an average of 15,000 kg per mu. The leek grows well this year, although the price is a little lower than in previous years because of the epidemic. It sells well without delay. Thanks to the efforts of the 3 agents in the village. In the past two days, the price rose to 0.75 yuan/kg.
The leek planting in Cuitieying Village can be traced back to the beginning of the dissolution of the production team in the early 1980s. After decades of development, the village of 180 households and 500 people have become a well-known leek planting village. Good-quality leeks are sold to Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, and the regions of Northeast China, and even to the South China. The 3 agents in the village are doing the export trade for the farmers.
“I only have two greenhouses, the least in the village. I can crop about 1000 kg today, and I don't worry about the sales, I trust our brokers!”Fan Fuyuan said.
Photo by Ma Weiqing, Jiang Tao
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