5.3 million tons of formula fertilizer for major food crops in the first half of 2014

In the first half of this year, the amount of formula fertilizer used for major grain crops in the country was 5.3 million tons (converted to pure), with an area of 360 million mu, an increase of 17.8% and 20% respectively over the same period last year. This is what the reporter learned from the evaluation meeting on the establishment of a demonstration county for promoting formula fertilizer in cooperation between agriculture and enterprises. The meeting was jointly organized by the planting Management Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Sinochem Chemical Fertilizer Co., Ltd. The meeting pointed out that the agricultural departments of the pilot provinces and demonstration counties should further explore new models in line with local conditions to promote the large-scale application of formula fertilizers.

On January 16 this year, the planting Management Department of the Ministry of Agriculture signed a Memorandum of Cooperation in promoting Scientific fertilization with Sinochem Fertilizer Co., Ltd., and decided that starting from this year, in 19 major grain and cash crop counties in 11 provinces, including Heilongjiang, Inner Mongolia and Shandong, jointly carry out the establishment of "Agriculture-Enterprise Cooperation to popularize Formula Fertilizer demonstration County" to create a number of typical models for replication and promotion. To explore the long-term mechanism of popularizing formula fertilizer by cooperation between agriculture and enterprises. On April 1 this year, the Ministry of Agriculture held a national forum on scientific fertilization in Changsha, Hunan Province, and proposed to firmly establish the concept of "fertilization for increasing production, economic fertilization, and environmental protection fertilization", further innovate work ideas, and change the mode of development. embark on a road of scientific fertilization with Chinese characteristics.

Since the beginning of this year, thanks to the joint efforts of the agricultural departments of the pilot provinces and demonstration counties and the relevant enterprises of Sinochem, the establishment of a demonstration county for the cooperative promotion of formula fertilizer between agriculture and enterprises has progressed smoothly. In the implementation of the project, various localities have explored the promotion model of formula fertilizer which is suitable for the local reality according to local conditions, and summed up a lot of good experiences and practices. Practice shows that the cooperative promotion of formula fertilizer between agriculture and enterprises is an important means to deepen soil testing and formula fertilization, a key measure to promote formula fertilizer into villages and households, and an effective way to guide fertilizer enterprises to transform and upgrade and vigorously carry out agrochemical services. Driven by the demonstration activities of the agricultural-enterprise cooperative promotion of formula fertilizer demonstration county, the national fertilizer enterprises actively participated in the production, supply and service of formula fertilizer, which led to the large-scale popularization and application of formula fertilizer.

Longjiang County is not only a national grain production pacesetter county, but also a demonstration county for agricultural-enterprise cooperation to promote formula fertilizer. This year, Sinochem Heilongjiang Chemical Fertilizer Co., Ltd. chose a professional cooperative for corn planting beyond modern times in this county, focusing on corn, the main crop. Through the integration of many high-yield technologies, such as deep loosening soil preparation, selection of improved varieties, scientific fertilization, efficient comprehensive control of diseases, insect pests and weeds, optimization of cultivation model, whole-process mechanization and so on. The cooperative coverage area will be gradually built into a technological radiation demonstration area of maize high-yield and high-quality comprehensive technology integration and efficient production mode.