East China’s Jiangsu province has spared no efforts to shore up grain production by responding to the central government’s plan to build at least 80 million mu of high-standard farmland.
Regional governments across the province are mobilized to build 495 plots of high-standard farmland and ensure that the farmland will be put into use in the upcoming summer transplanting season.
The high-standard farmland in Zhuzhen town of Luhe district, Nanjing, had been planted with rice seedlings as of the end of May.
The local government is revving up the leveling of the farmland and construction of the ditches to ensure that these fields will be accessible to transportation and irrigation facilities in the course of field management.
Through comprehensive improvement, the field roads have been widened, and irrigation ditches have also been linked to each other. The fields divided into small plots over the land in the past have been turned into fields of large span to enable agricultural machines and increase the cultivated land area.
Yang Cheng, Dead of the Office for Farmland Improvement, Zhuzhen Township Government
We have turned the small plots of farmland into fields of large span by reducing the ridges to facilitate mechanic accessibility.
Chen Guoxuan, farm owner in Luhe District, Nanjing
The farmland improvement plan has helped us to increase the wheat yield per mu from a range of 200 to 250 kg to 450 kg now.
Since the start of this year, Jiangsu has made every possible effort to improve the farm fields and build drought and flood resistant farmland that relies less on pesticides and fertilizers so as to secure bumper harvest with high yield and high efficiency.
In the meantime, Jiangsu has revved up the construction of 495 plots of high-standard farmland since mid-March with 3.3 million mu of crop fields ready for rice seedling transplanting in June.
Wang Zhao, Head of Farmland Construction Management Office, Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs
We will make every possible effort to ensure that 10 million mu of high-standard farmland will be renovated across the province before the end of 2022.
