Ploughing and increasing grain in the year of the Horse is heavy.

In the year of the Ox and Horse, it is easy to plow the fields. Grain growers have been busy for a year, rewarding their hard work and reaping a bumper harvest.

This year is the opening year of the new national food security strategy, and it is also a key year for high-level protection after the "ten consecutive increases" of grain. Grain production for the whole year has withstood multiple tests such as serious natural disasters, frequent biological disasters, and changeable market environment in some areas, achieving a total output of 1.2142 trillion jin, an increase of 10.32 billion jin, and a bumper harvest.

"with a good harvest this year, you can eat a good bun!" "over the past year, more than 2000 jin of rice have been beaten!" "there's no shortage of grain. I have a lot of income this year!" In Zhumadian, Henan, Qihe, Shandong, and Jianli, Hubei, grain harvests are gratifying everywhere, and the faces of farmers are brimming with joy.

A bumper harvest is inseparable from policy implementation, production guidance, scientific and technological production, and disaster prevention and reduction.

With a high starting point and high cost, how can grain production reap a bumper harvest? It is the policy that strengthens the foundation. Subsidies for improved varieties, creation of high yields, and soil testing and formula fertilization have been issued early to benefit farmers; subsidy policies such as "one spray and three prevention" of wheat and centralized raising of rice seedlings have resolved the risks in grain production; the minimum purchase price policy has supported the enthusiasm of farmers to grow grain, and the sown area of grain has been expanded by more than 5 million mu compared with last year.

During the critical periods of planting in autumn and winter, spring ploughing and "three summers" production, "strengthening guidance and service and winning summer grain harvest again", "northeast region fighting against low temperature spring waterlogging, spring sowing and spring sowing", and "strengthening service science, disaster resistance and autumn grain harvest action", three key battles ensure that production guidance is in place in important links in a timely manner.

Agricultural science and technology play an important role in the achievements of the bumper harvest. In the core area of the 200000 mu grain yield increase model in Qihe, Shandong Province, the wheat experts of the Ministry of Agriculture guided a group of wheat experts to test and accept, with an average yield of 715.97 kg per mu, with science and technology as the first credit. On the one hand, we should grasp the establishment of high yield and the promotion of the whole organizational system; on the other hand, we should grasp the mode of increasing production and accumulate scientific and technological strength in order to increase production, and in the "year of tackling and upgrading the mode of high grain production and the mode of increasing grain production", we should grasp and study the prescription for two-wheel drive, and give full play to the production of science and technology. With the increase in area and the increase in per unit yield at the same time, a beautiful battle was fought only in the bumper harvest of grain throughout the year.

In April this year, the heading and flowering period of wheat in the Jianghuai region encountered continuous overcast and rain; in summer and autumn, Huang-Huai and parts of Northeast China experienced severe summer and autumn droughts. On the basis of early research and early warning, great efforts have been made to popularize the techniques of subsoiling soil preparation, raising rice seedlings in greenhouse, "sitting in water" for drought resistance of corn, suppression of wheat after sowing, watering over winter water, and "one spray and three prevention" in the Huang-Huai-Hai region. firmly grasp the initiative in disaster prevention.

"xerophytic insects, wet disease", this year's disease and insect disasters are more frequent than in previous years. In the golden rice fields of he Shuguo, a farmer in Qingshanpu Town, Changsha County, Hunan Province, rice bends and bows its head, while green prevention and control facilities such as insecticidal lights and traps are set up high. The integration of unified prevention and control and green prevention and control has been promoted, and the innovation and transformation of the organizational mode and technological system of pest control are taking root in the field. In the 218 demonstration zones established by the Ministry of Agriculture for the integration of professional unified defense rule and green prevention and control, the use of chemical pesticides has been reduced by 20% and 30%, while the average yield per mu has increased by more than 8%. According to statistics, 213 billion jin of grain has been seized by insects this year, and great achievements have been made in the prevention and treatment of pests and diseases.

Looking back on the bumper harvest, the increase in grain production is not easy to come by, which fully proves that Chinese rice bowls can be firmly held in their own hands, and Chinese bowls can be filled with Chinese grain! Looking forward to the coming year, facing the new situation, new tasks, and new challenges, it is also necessary to establish a food security concept of "basic self-sufficiency in grain and absolute security in food rations," fully tap the new potential of production capacity, stabilize output, and ensure safety.