Shouxin Family Farm in Changli County yields a good harvest of rice this year, paddy plants bend down with heavy ears, and farmers are busy harvesting rice in the field with the combine harvester, rice straw recycling machine, and picking machine.
“The rice variety introduced on the farm is Kangyan(salt-resistant) 45-1, which is resistant to lodging, with high yield and excellent quality! Look at the rice! So bright and so big, and tastes really good! It is a good harvest this year, yielding 900 kg per mu, over 100 kg more than previous years. The purchase price is good, and we can earn about 1,000 yuan from 1 mu of land!” rejoiced Wang Shouxin, a large-scale rice grower.
The 60-year-old Wang Shouxin is the owner of the Changli Shouxin Family Farm. Since 2002, he has transferred more than 1,000 mu of land for rice cultivation. Wang Shouxin said that over the past few years, he had actively introduced new technologies and new varieties, carrying out mechanized planting, and strengthening green prevention and control, to improve the quality and production. “Now the farm is operated on a large scale and is fully mechanized, which relived our burden and increased income. 1,000 mu of land can be done in 5 or 6 days, and the straw can be directly packaged to the farm as feeding stuff, which is convenient and environment-friendly, and increases our income, killing three birds with one stone!”
The land that Wang Shouxin leased was bare saline-alkali soil. He has done a lot to cultivate it into the high-yield land of rice. Wang Shouxin said that at the beginning, he was “crossing the river by feeling the stones” and suffered delays and setbacks. After years of hard work, he has realized the importance of technology, and learning has become an important part of his continuous improvement. In addition, the County Agriculture and Rural Bureau has also provided a lot of help to farmers.
“Technicians from Agricultural and Rural Bureau of Changli County regularly come to teach us how to select seeds, improve quality, what time to water, and when to harvest.” Wang Shouxin smiled, “They offer us new seeds, technology and equipment to increase production and income, and invite experts to train us and analyze market and policies to grasps market trends. Now we ourselves have become experts, too!”
In recent years, the Agriculture and Rural Bureau of Changli County has taken practical and effective measures in terms of farmland infrastructure improvement, full mechanization guarantee, new variety improvement, and scientific and technological guidance, to do a good job in stabilizing grain production and ensuring supply, advocating organic ecological recycling planting mode, to further reduce the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticide, and promoting green agriculture, to effectively improve the overall food production capacity. At present, there are a total of 40,000 mu of saline-alkali rice field and 20,000 mu of dry rice field in Changli County, with an annual output of about 42,000 tons of rice.
“Scientific and technological farming makes farmers more comfortable and confident!” said Li Xiaoyan, director of the Agricultural Technology Promotion Station of the Agricultural and Rural Bureau of Changli County. In the next step, the Agricultural and Rural Bureau of Changli County will continue to strengthen the building of high-standard farmland, prevention and control with UAV, industrial development support, agricultural policy insurance, etc., and guide farmers to develop deep processing industry of high-quality rice and directly sell them to the market, to improve the additional income of farmers.
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