A New Water-saving Wheat Variety Predicted to Yield 1200 Jin/mu

Original title: popularize "New Variety + New Technology" in Zhaoxian County, Hebei Province

The estimated yield of 600000 mu of wheat is 550kg.

A map of the progress of wheat harvest

On the morning of June 1, technicians from the Agriculture, Forestry and Animal Husbandry Bureau of Zhaoxian County, Hebei Province, came to the wheat field of Li Sumin, a major grain grower in the county, to measure the yield of his 200 mu high-yield demonstration field. By checking the growth situation of wheat and checking the technical indexes such as the number of spikes per mu, grains per spike and 1000-grain weight, it is preliminarily predicted that the average yield per mu of the demonstration field will exceed 600 kg.

"my more than 200 mu of land is a new water-saving variety, '103', which is more water-saving than ordinary wheat. It is resistant to cold and lodging, has high yield, and can sell at a good price." Seeing the results of the experts' sampling tests, Li Sumin smiled. Li Sumin, the farmer of the first family farm in Hebei Province, was awarded the title of "National Top Ten Farmers" by the Ministry of Agriculture in 2015. after years of exploration and practice, he came to the conclusion that "new varieties + new technology" is the magic weapon to increase income.

Zhaoxian is a major agricultural county, with a wheat planting area of about 600000 mu, and is a national production base for high-quality wheat and high-quality commercial grain. The county regards the selection and promotion of high-quality wheat varieties as a key step to ensure a bumper summer grain harvest. Through screening, the technical personnel of the county agricultural science institute eliminated the old, degraded and poorly adapted varieties, and vigorously promoted the newly approved, adaptable and high-quality varieties with outstanding comprehensive characters throughout the county.

Li Huili, director of the Zhao County Institute of Agricultural Sciences, said that the county Institute of Agricultural Sciences has not only undertaken the experiments of six research groups of the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, but also undertaken the breeding experiment of new wheat varieties of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and the regional trial of winter wheat varieties in the northern part of Huang-Huai River. In 2015-2016, among the newly approved varieties, Zhaoxian Institute of Agricultural Sciences selected and collected 6 new winter wheat varieties suitable for planting in this region for display, in order to reserve resources for future wheat variety upgrading and promotion. At present, the wheat in the county is in the late filling stage, and the growth of wheat is balanced and consistent. Experts predict that the yield per mu is 550.3 kg, and a bumper harvest of summer grain is in sight.

"at present, we have set up a 'one mix and two spray' experiment and 10 mu of control fields in Qiandazhang Township, and arranged a 100 mu water-saving test control in the core of the demonstration plot of Xujiazhai, demonstrating the high-yield cultivation techniques of wheat with one water and two water." Li Huili said: in order to promote new water-saving varieties and explore new high-yield technologies, they have set up a number of experimental plots and fertilizer reduction experimental plots in villages and towns in the county, such as Qiandazhang Township, to promote green water-saving planting. Judging from the situation in recent years, some new varieties have achieved a thousand jin of water, achieving the effect of saving water and increasing production.

It is understood that in order to ensure the large-scale popularization of new wheat varieties and new technologies, the county has established 12 high-yield wheat demonstration plots with high standards in the county's major grain producing areas, directly creating an area of 137000 mu. In the demonstration film, we will comprehensively popularize and select water-saving, stable and high-yield varieties, timely late harvest and late sowing technology, multi-functional seed coating agent seed dressing technology, straw returning fine soil preparation technology, sufficient soil moisture sowing technology, equal row spacing full density planting technology, mechanical precision sowing technology, post-sowing suppression technology and other eight key technologies to carry out "one spray and comprehensive control" to realize the unified control of diseases and insect pests in all growth stages of wheat, and reduce the frequency of drug use and drug residue pollution. Improve product quality and market competitiveness, radiation drive the county's wheat production. (Xu Zepu, our reporter Hao Lingfeng)