Wipe the trump card of grain more brightly.

03:40 in the afternoon, a conference room in Xiping County, Zhumadian City, Henan Province.

More than 20 representatives, including large grain growers, leaders of cooperatives, and village cadres, gathered with more than a dozen leaders in charge of provinces, cities and counties and cadres of agriculture-related departments to discuss the topic of grain.

"this year, the average yield of wheat per mu of 1.028 million mu in our county is 569.2 kg."

"the average wheat yield per mu in the project area reached 654.3 kg, more than 120kg higher than that outside the area."

At the forum, the most common sentence said by the villagers was, "this year's harvest is good!"

It's not just Xiping County!

According to figures released by the National Bureau of Statistics on July 14, the total output of summer grain in Henan this year reached 66.776 billion jin, another record high and continues to rank first in the country. The average yield per mu was 819.33 jin, breaking through the 800 jin mark for the first time.

Time is the axis, farming to make a pen, Henan used more than 10 years to draw a high grain output curve.

However, in order to achieve the goal of building an important core area for the steady growth of grain production in 2020, the trump card of grain production must be polished more brightly.

It is easier to know than to do, how to polish the trump card brighter? Provincial Governor Xie Fuzhan told reporters that to continue to achieve breakthroughs at a high starting point, we must rely on scientific and technological means to achieve stable and high yields, rely on the transformation of medium-and low-yield fields to provide per unit yield, and rely on innovative mechanisms to arouse farmers' enthusiasm for growing grain.

The "tens of millions" project builds the granary in the granary.

-- grasping grain is basically arable land.

In Dawangzhuang Village, Jiaozhuang Township, Xiping County, Liu Shuangyin, a major grain grower, contracted 1000 mu of land to grow grain, with a transfer price of 1200 yuan per mu. In Maozhai Village, a fellow township not far from Dawangzhuang Village, another major grain grower known to Liu Shuangyin transferred more than 400 mu of land at a price of 950 yuan per mu.

"when he transferred, the land was not in the project area, but mine was in the project area, with good basic conditions and high output, so it was more expensive." The "project" mentioned by Liu Shuangyin refers to the "tens of millions" high-standard grain field project.

Vice Governor Wang tie told reporters that as the core area of national grain production, Henan has been thinking about how to maximize land efficiency while ensuring that the area of cultivated land is not reduced. In 2012, Guo Gengmao, then governor of Henan Province, explicitly proposed to build "tens of millions" high-standard grain fields, to ensure grain production through land conservation, and to improve agricultural income through modern agricultural production methods and large-scale operation.

The "ten million million" construction project is an important means and basic measure to ensure grain yield. to this end, Henan has identified 95 major grain-producing counties to build 75 million mu of arable land in the grain core area, and plans to build 63.69 million mu of high-standard permanent grain fields in the core area with "100 mu square", "1000 mu square" and "ten thousand mu square" as units.

"the land does not recognize my father and mother, so I have packed up more grain." In order to ensure the quality of grain field construction, Henan took the lead in issuing local standards for the construction of high-standard grain fields, and adopted regulations on the protection of high-standard grain fields, taking the high-standard grain fields as untouchable cultivated land for grain production in the form of legislation. non-grain production is prohibited at any time and under any circumstances.

"if we do a good job in the construction of high-standard grain fields, we can guarantee the comprehensive production capacity of 120 billion jin of grain, and the completion of the commitment of 130 billion jin of grain production will be guaranteed." Zhu Mengzhou, director of the Provincial Department of Agriculture, told reporters that at present, the province has accumulated 22.8 billion yuan in funds for various agriculture-related projects, such as agriculture, water conservancy, land renovation, and comprehensive agricultural development, and the construction of high-standard grain fields has been promoted at the rate of 9 million mu per year. 35 million mu can be completed by the end of this year.

Big water conservancy and small farmers go hand in hand

Grasping grain, the lifeblood lies in water conservancy.

In early August, the drought in many areas of Henan was serious. In the fields of Qinghe Township, Fangcheng County, farmers can be seen everywhere to resist drought and protect autumn.

Henan is a province with serious water shortage, with only 445 cubic meters of water resources per capita. The strange circle of "drought resistance and drought every year" has been difficult to get rid of completely.

In order to change emergency drought and flood control into systematic disaster prevention and reduction, Henan will firmly seize the great opportunity of the state to increase water conservation and water supply projects and the management of the Huaihe River Basin, and speed up the planning of large and medium-sized flood control, irrigation and drainage projects such as the Fashandian Reservoir and Qianping Reservoir. We will increase the construction of water resources allocation projects focusing on the diversion of the Yellow River, and make full use of the water resources of the Yellow River.

At present, the construction of the main trunk project of the middle route of the South-to-North Water transfer Project in Henan Province has been successfully completed, and the expected goal of "four-year task and two-year completion" of 165000 migrants in Danjiangkou reservoir area has also been successfully achieved.

If the big water conservancy project is solid, small farmers' water should also keep up with it. In the "Construction Plan of the Core area of Grain production in Henan", speeding up the construction of water conservancy facilities and strengthening the ability of grain production to resist flood and drought disasters are listed as the first of the main construction tasks. In the construction of high-standard grain fields last winter and this spring, Henan completed a total investment of 29.027 billion yuan in irrigation and water conservancy construction, ranking second in the country in terms of investment and project volume. At present, of the 95 major grain-growing counties in the core areas, 77 have implemented the construction of key counties for small-scale agriculture and water, with a coverage rate of 81%.

In the high-standard grain fields of Chencao Township, Xuchang County, the key demonstration and popularized farmland water-saving technologies, such as integration of water and fertilizer, measurement of soil moisture irrigation, rain harvesting and supplementary irrigation, water gathering and soil moisture conservation, showed their skills in the year of severe drought. Fan limin, secretary of the party committee of the township, said that this year's autumn grain crops benefit from water-saving irrigation, not only will not reduce production, but may continue to increase production.

Nearly a thousand regional stations for agricultural technology extension are all "general practitioners"

-- grasping grain, the way out lies in science and technology

"now when growing grain, the agricultural technician can do whatever he says. No matter what problem he encounters, he will raise his leg and ask." This place that can be reached by Chen Baolin, a big grain grower in Penyao Town, Xiping County, is a regional station for agricultural technology promotion built in high-standard grain fields.

Cai Xinting, director of the Agricultural Bureau of Xiping County, told reporters that on the basis of the original agricultural technology extension system and according to the actual needs of high-standard farmland project areas, we will focus on building regional agricultural technology extension stations to solve the "last kilometer" problem in a down-to-earth manner.

Today, agricultural technology extension regional stations with "zero-distance contact" with farmers are located within 10,000 mu of high-standard grain fields, generally with 100000 mu as a unit, and are directly stationed by county-level agricultural technology extension personnel, focusing on the functions of agricultural technology extension and experiment and demonstration. "the agricultural technicians in the agricultural technology service center are like the doctors in the village health station. They know everything. Farmers can solve any problems directly." Wei Mengguan, deputy director of the Provincial Department of Agriculture, made a vivid analogy.

In the 100,000 mu high-standard grain field in Erlang Township, Xiping County, the agricultural technology service center, which covers a small area, "Sparrow is small, but has all the internal organs." the reporter saw that the large screen hanging outside the office is showing the agricultural skills that are most needed nowadays, and on the blackboard of the training classroom is the blackboard of agricultural technology knowledge left by experts when they teach.

The same agricultural technology service center as Erlang Township, 970 are planned to be built in Henan province, and 776 have been built so far.

With the agricultural technology service center as the carrier, the speed of agricultural informatization in Henan has been greatly accelerated. "if you look at the sky by farming, what farmers care about most is the weather. We seize this point, take meteorology as the starting point for agriculture, connect soil moisture, the situation of diseases and insect pests, guiding measures with meteorological information, and provide centralized information to farmers on the agricultural information inquiry machine of the Agricultural Technology Service Center. " Duan Yanjie, deputy magistrate of Xiping County, said.

At the Erlang Township Agricultural Technology Service Center, the reporter saw many farmers "pointing" in front of the agricultural information inquiry machine. Yang Guang, a farmer in Zhang Yao Village, told reporters that on this machine, only two clicks of fingers are needed to see the weather forecast for the next few days. With a few more clicks, what diseases should be prevented and what medicine should be sprayed will come out.

Agricultural technology is in place, agricultural machinery is also advanced. Every summer, when the wheat harvest in Zhumadian opens, hundreds of thousands of harvesters gather here, and the army of "Tiemaike" sets out from here and goes all the way to the north to harvest the whole country.

Qi Cunjie, member of the standing Committee of the Zhumadian Municipal CPC Committee and vice mayor, said that at present, the total power of agricultural machinery in Zhumadian has reached 13.6 million kilowatts, there are nearly 1,000 professional agricultural machinery cooperatives, and the comprehensive mechanization rate of agriculture has reached 82 percent, all of which are in the forefront of the province.

At present, the comprehensive mechanization rate of Henan province has reached 75%, and wheat production has basically been mechanized in the whole process. In addition, Henan is also a pilot province of UAV injection and three prevention subsidies in the country.

If a good son has a good mother, he will grow more grain. Among the main food crops in Henan, wheat and corn varieties each have two dazzling stars, winning four national first-class prizes for scientific and technological progress in Henan, a major province in the seed industry.

The new wheat variety "Aikang 85" bred by Henan Institute of Science and Technology has solved four major technical problems, such as high yield, large groups and easy lodging, and "Zhengmai 9023", a new wheat variety with strong gluten and high quality selected by Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences. The planting area ranks first among the current high-quality wheat varieties in China.

The cultivation of improved corn varieties is also outstanding. "Zhengdan 958" selected by Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences is the largest maize variety with the cumulative planting area since the founding of the people's Republic of China, while "Jundan 20" selected by Hebi Academy of Agricultural Sciences has set a record for domestic continuous planting in the core area of 10,000 mu and the highest yield of summer corn in the same area in the country, and the planting area ranks second in the country.

The key is to innovate the mechanism of stabilizing grain production and increasing production.

-- Policy is the driving force for grasping grain.

Han Weiyu, a 36-year-old grain grower in Maozhai Village, Jiaozhuang Township, Xiping County, worked in Shanghai a few years ago. "I signed a 20-year contract with farmers and transferred more than 400 mu of land, which was notarized by the rural land transfer service center." Han Weiyu knew how to grow grain in his life.

In the past two years, in order to standardize and promote land transfer, Xiping County has set up land transfer service centers (stations) at the county, township and village levels to provide services for new business entities such as Han Weiyu.

More importantly, Henan explores to give farmers professional cooperative organizations, family farms and professional large households the subject status of agriculture-related projects, and tries to transfer the project assets of financial support to agricultural production to their use, management and protection, thus promoting the development of new agricultural operators.

At present, the number of farmers' professional cooperatives in Henan province has reached 92000, with farmers joining and driving farmers accounting for more than 17 percent of the total number of peasant households; 39000 large grain growers and 16000 family farms with an area of more than 50 mu of arable land. Cooperative management, escrow and other forms of large-scale intensive management have emerged.

In order to solve the capital problem of new business entities, a modern agricultural investment guarantee company has been set up in Henan since last year, striving for a credit line of 30 billion yuan for three years, which has alleviated to a considerable extent the problem of "willing to grow grain without money circulation".

It is not difficult to understand that at present, the circulation area of rural contracted land in Henan province has reached 33.93 million mu, accounting for 34.8% of the household contracted cultivated land area, which is about 7 percentage points higher than the national average. You know, this is not easy in major grain provinces that have always cherished the land to grow grain.

In order to give full play to the leverage of policies to move productive forces, Henan has also focused on establishing and improving 11 mechanisms for the steady growth of grain production, such as investment, incentives and subsidies, scientific and technological innovation, modern agricultural management, rural land circulation, and rural human resources development, which has drawn a hopeful policy map for Henan farmers.