The latest agricultural report from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs indicates that over 64% of the nation’s autumn grain has been harvested, marking a 1.1 percentage point increase compared to last year. Meanwhile, autumn planting is also moving forward.
Regionally, over 75% of the autumn grain in the Huang-Huai-Hai and southwest regions has been harvested, with the northwest seeing more than 80% completion. The northeast, the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and south China have all surpassed the halfway mark.
During field interviews, reporters discovered that this year, various grain-producing areas have been exploring new methods, from farming infrastructure to improved seeds and techniques.
In Jilin Province, significant efforts have been made to comprehensively utilize saline-alkali land. Of the more than 6.7 million acres of saline-alkali land in the province, over 2 million acres have been developed. Currently, the 300,000 acres of saline-alkali rice fields in Da’an are at their peak harvest. This year, local farmers have used bio-remediation methods with new organic silicon materials to transform more saline-alkali land into arable fields.
In Heilongjiang, particularly in Heihe City, there’s a strong focus on promoting quality staple varieties to enhance overall grain production capacity. In one cooperative’s field, harvesters are working at full capacity, bringing in a soybean yield that exceeds previous years.
As for the winter wheat sown area, over 20% of the planting has been completed nationwide. In Henan, work continues to establish a high-yield demonstration zone covering 15 million acres. In the fields of Jiehe Road Village in Huaxian County, autonomous precision sowing machines equipped with Beidou navigation systems are operating along pre-set paths. These machines manage sowing, fertilizing, and pressing in one go, ensuring uniform seedling growth and simplifying subsequent management.
Since September, more than 10 million various agricultural machines, including grain and oil crop harvesters, tractors, and planters, have been deployed for autumn harvesting and planting across the country.
