Xizang achieves a bumper harvest of "grain bag" and "vegetable basket"

The latest data from Xizang's Department of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry show that in 2015, Xizang's grain output exceeded 1 million tons for the first time, reaching 1.1078 million tons, and vegetable output reached 820000 tons, both reaching record highs. Xizang's "grain bag" and "vegetable basket" double bumper harvest was achieved.

After a bumper harvest, can farmers increase their production and income? Recently, the reporter conducted an investigation and interview in the Xigaze region, which is known as the "Xizang granary".

"I have earned 180000 yuan from growing highland barley this year." Dawa Dunzhu, a big highland barley family in Jinga Village, Baza Township, Bailang County, Xigaze City, told the reporter that the weather was favorable this year. He planted 93 mu of highland barley and harvested more than 70,000 jin.

Dawa Dunzhu is just a microcosm of agriculture and agriculture. Bazha Township, Bailang County, Jinga Village is a demonstration village of highland barley seed field, with a bumper harvest of 1000 mu, and the interests of food and agriculture in the whole village have been guaranteed.

According to reports, in 2015, Xigaze City comprehensively planted three new varieties of "Zangqing 2000", "Himalayan 22" and "Shandong 7". After extensively carrying out irrigation and water conservancy infrastructure construction, clearing silt and repairing canals, the highest yield of highland barley reached 1100 jin per mu, achieving a bumper grain harvest.

"in the past, we mainly planted local varieties of blue highland barley in Kamai Township. In recent years, we have promoted two new varieties of highland barley, 'Zangqing 2000' and 'Himalayan 22' year by year. " Suo Pian, deputy director of the Bureau of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry of Jiangzi County, Xigaze City, said that the yield of highland barley with the best growth reached more than 1100 jin per mu, while the worst yield per mu also reached more than 700 jin.

In 2015, the grain planting area of Xizang exceeded 2.55 million mu, of which the sown area of highland barley exceeded 1.87 million mu. In addition, the extension area of the new variety "Zangqing 2000" with an average yield of 26.5kg per mu reached 769000 mu, ensuring a steady increase in highland barley yield.

Xizang Tongshan Laver in winter, while the vegetable greenhouse in Bazha Township, Bancang Village, Bailang County, Xigaze County, is green and warm as summer, and cucumbers with small yellow flowers are covered with vines. Bian Ba Dunzhu, a villager in his 50s, is picking cucumbers in the greenhouse. "my family has four vegetable greenhouses, and one greenhouse earns 10,000 yuan a year, totaling more than 40,000 yuan." He said while picking cucumbers while Barton beads.

Pancang Village, which mainly grows and sells vegetables in greenhouse, is a "ten thousand yuan village" in Baza Township, Bailang County, Xigaze County, with a per capita annual income of more than 10,000 yuan. There are 120 greenhouses in the village, and the average annual income of vegetables in greenhouse in the whole village is more than 400,000 yuan. In 2015, Xizang's vegetable planting area reached 374200 mu, with an output of 827300 tons.

In order to stimulate farmers' enthusiasm for growing grain and vegetables, Xizang has continuously increased the policy of strengthening agriculture and benefiting farmers and rich farmers in recent years. Suo Pian, deputy director of the Jiangzi County Bureau of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry, told reporters, "the subsidy for improved varieties of crops is 15 yuan per mu for high-quality highland barley, 10 yuan per mu for wheat and 10 yuan per mu for rape, which really protects the interests of farmers through subsidies."

Highland barley cultivation in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau has a long history, is the staple food varieties of farmers and herdsmen, has long been integrated into the production and life of the Tibetan people, and has become an important symbol of Xizang culture. During the festival, every household is ready to cut horses, which is filled with highland barley grains and poop noodles, with colorful highland barley ears and beautiful buttered flowers, praying for good weather and good grain harvest.

In 2016, Xizang will establish demonstration zones for high-yield standardized production techniques of highland barley in Jiangzi, Bailang, Sangzhuzi, Lazi and other grain-producing counties, and more than one "100 mu Qianjin" demonstration field will be built in conditional non-grain-producing counties. The demonstration field should carry out full-process mechanized operation, demonstrate the standardized and high-yield cultivation techniques of improved varieties of highland barley, drive the local people to learn and use technology, promote the overall improvement of the production level of surrounding highland barley, and ensure food security.