East China’s Jiangsu province has attached great importance to arable land and seeds, the two key elements of agricultural production, continuously improves the level of high-standard farmland construction and strengthened scientific and technological research and technology promotion of seed sources so as to consolidate the foundation for stable production and supply.
Xuliu Town, Huaiyin District, Huai'an City has recently invested in various types of machinery to build anti-seepage canals for high-standard farmland.
The project will upgrade all 6,000 mu of dry land in Xuliu Town to paddy fields for rice and wheat rotation, promoting grain production and increasing the collective income of the village.
Du Yeyan, a farm owner of Xuliu Town, Huaiyin District, Huaian City, said that they renovated the water conservancy canals and planted rice in all the farmland, which is estimated to increase the income by nearly 500 yuan per mu. She plans to contract another two or three hundred mu next year.
Ding Yuguo, Secretary of the Party Committee of Xuliu Town, Huaiyin District, Huaian City, said that they opened up the ridges between the cultivated land, expanded the area of cultivated land, continuously improved the infrastructure of ditches, roads and culverts, mobilized the enthusiasm of the contractors for production, and the average land rent increased by nearly 100 yuan per mu.
Jiangsu is continuing to promote the construction of 3.9 million mu of high-standard farmland, and it is expected that all of them will be put into use during summer planting in June.
This year, Jiangsu will increase the construction of 4 million mu of high-standard farmland, and the maximum investment ceiling will also be raised from the previous 1,750 yuan to 3,000 yuan, so as to improve the farmland's ability to ensure high yields and stable yields during droughts and floods.
In the meantime, Jiangsu is also continuously promoting the improvement of fine varieties to increase grain output and stabilize market supply.
Researchers from the Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences have used the temperature and light control of facility cultivation in intelligent greenhouses to increase the annual reproductive algebra of soybeans, and cultivate new soybean varieties with high yield and high quality faster and better.
By increasing the flowering period from once a year to three times a year, researchers can hybridize plant parents more quickly, aggregate high-quality genes, and breed new varieties with integrated excellent characteristics so as to have increased the breeding efficiency by more than five-fold.
With the support of scientific and technological means such as intelligent greenhouse and molecular breeding, the Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences has cultivated 7 new soybean varieties, and at the same time, combined with the soybean and corn ribbon compound planting technology, it has continuously innovated the landing mode and supporting scheme of technology promotion.
“What we are now promoting is the 4:2 mode, with 4 rows of soybeans in the middle and two rows of corn on the sides”, Chen Xin, Chief Expert of Jiangsu Province Special Grain and Special Economic Industry Technology System, introduced “so that both rows of corn have a side-row effect, the yield of corn is not reduced, and the yield of soybeans is increased, achieving the best combination of highest variety and technology”.
This year, Jiangsu will provide a financial subsidy of 170 yuan, which will further mobilize the enthusiasm of planting subjects on the basis of the central government subsidy of 150 yuan per mu.
Jiangsu will also support a number of modern commercial breeding innovation centers, carry out research and popularization and application of core technologies such as germplasm resource innovation, and improve comprehensive agricultural production capacity.
