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Original title: Spring ploughing busy rice duck field in Qingming season to promote income increase

The fields were busy. Photographe: Wang Yun

On the vast fertile rice fields, transplanter after transplanter ran over, leaving only neat rows of light green seedlings, and the fields were busy. At the end of March and early April, the reporter successively came to Yakou Village, Nanlang Town, Zhongshan City and Liuquansha Farm, Dayong Town. After visiting the first line of spring ploughing production, it was found that due to the low temperature at the beginning of the year and the influence of more rain, the planting time of spring ploughing in Zhongshan this year was about 10 days later than in previous years, which may affect the harvest in summer. The later weather and water and fertilizer management are particularly important.

busy farming season

150-200 work points per person per day

On the morning of March 31, the outdoor temperature of 20℃ was particularly refreshing. The reporter stood at the entrance archway of Yakou Village, and pieces of farmland were clearly visible. The breeze was mixed with the heavy smell of soil. Although this year's spring ploughing has just begun, the farmland here has been leveled to a high standard, and one can still see the fertility of this land. Tan Weiqin, secretary of the current Yakou Village Committee, told reporters that Yakou Village is the largest agricultural farming village in Zhongshan, with an existing rice planting area of 3000 mu. The village is divided into 13 production teams. Almost all the production in the village is arranged by the team leaders of each brigade. The villagers work together, earn work points and distribute collectively. It is reported that more than 500 villagers participated in collective production labor this year, including 40 agricultural machinery personnel. In terms of machinery, there are 120 Dongfanghong 1204 tractor rubber wheels 4 sets, Qinggang medium-sized tractor 7 sets, Yangma harvester 10 sets, Yangma rice transplanter 8 sets.

"Pick the seedlings…" A loud cry burst out from the field, which was exceptionally loud. Listening to the sound, more than 20 farmers in Team 6 quickly got up, patted the mud on their hips, picked up their carrying poles and walked straight to the seedling field beside the canal. The reporter saw that an aunt put two plates of seedlings on each side of the pole. After setting it up, she immediately bowed down, tilted the 40 - 50 jin pole, and walked three steps and two steps forward. "We've been here since 8 o'clock. We have to be careful today. We've already finished transplanting seedlings at this time of year." After picking seedlings, 58-year-old Cheng aunt and reporters walk while chatting,"Last year almost March 20 began, This year until 30 days only the first day of transplanting, Late nearly 10 days."

In fact, these 10 days are not a simple matter of time, it also really brings trouble to these farmers who eat by watching the sky. "It was too cold at the beginning of the year. There was more rain and less light. Not only are the seedlings planted now old, they are also about 5 cm shorter than the perennial ones. When the time comes, if it doesn't grow well, it will definitely have a great impact on production." Near noon, although there is some anxiety in my heart, Captain Tan of Team 2 still leads the team members to move seedlings and transplant seedlings intensively. According to his introduction, 2 teams allocated nearly 200 mu of farmland, last year's harvest was good 280,000 jin, yield per mu about 700 jin, this year may be only 250,000 jin.

The grain of each production team will not be directly sold to the market, but will be purchased uniformly by the village committee, and the purchase price will generally be slightly higher than the market price. "We will calculate the allocation amount according to the actual quantity of rice put into the warehouse by each production team. Last autumn harvest, the market price of rice was 145 yuan/100 jin, so we will purchase it at the price of 165 yuan/100 jin." Tan Weiqin calculated an account for reporters. After harvesting rice every season, the village would divide the total income of each production team by the total number of work points of the team to calculate the score of each work point, while individuals received different incomes due to the difference of work points. Every year, spring transplanting, summer harvest, summer planting and autumn harvest are four busy farming seasons. Due to the high labor intensity, each person can get 150-200 work points every day. Usually do fertilization and medication work, about 15-20 hours per person per day.

"Last year was amazing. The average salary of villagers participating in collective labor in 13 production teams was 1690 yuan/month, but this year may not be so much." Tan Weiqin told reporters,"Now there is no remedy, Can only hope that after a period of time the temperature can rise, Water and fertilizer are intensified, But the most important or temperature and light."

agricultural innovation

Breeding and breeding of ducks in the field

On March 30, Lu Quansha Farm planted the first seedling of spring ploughing this year. Two days later, they stopped transplanting and chose to supplement seedlings instead. Huang Lineng, 54, is the production director of Liuquansha Farm, but also everyone's friendly and reliable "Nengge", he told reporters, these days have been blowing north wind, dry and cold, planted seedlings are not long, so wait for Qingming Festival to plant again,"blowing a day south wind will reach it three days north wind."

On April 1, the sky was slightly sunny, and the reporter came to this island located in the middle of Xijiang River. In the early years, Liuquansha Island, which covers an area of about 1000 mu, was still a wasteland, but now it has become the "123" grain planting demonstration base of Zhongshan City, and has successively won the titles of Modern Agriculture Demonstration Park of Zhongshan City and pollution-free producing area of Guangdong Province. Along the newly-built hard-bottomed agricultural road into the main production area of Liuquansha, the reporter saw a large paddy field with green spots from a distance, three or four aunts wearing straw hats, bent over busy in the field. Later, I learned that they were all from Xinhui on the other side of the river. They worked on the farm for a long time. In busy farming season, they would also get more overtime pay and subsidies. Each person could also get more than 100 yuan per day.

"This year's spring planting is about 10 days late, and it almost ended before Qingming Festival last year. I have been a farmer for more than 20 years, and this year's situation is also the first time. The sunshine is not good, and the rain is especially heavy." Just as reporters worried about this year's harvest, Huang Lineng said,"Generally transplanting is to the beginning of summer, after the beginning of summer, no one will go to insert, now almost a month from the beginning of summer, according to the season is not too late." We should pay close attention to the future and do a good job in water and fertilizer management. There won't be any big problems. If the weather is good after a while, the harvest may be better than last year." In his opinion, this year's seedlings are a little shorter than in previous years, transplanting time is also late, but overall yield will not be less, but summer harvest time will also be delayed accordingly.

In fact, last year Liuquansha rice planting is also ushered in a bumper harvest, summer harvest average yield per mu more than 900 jin, autumn harvest slightly lower also reached about 800 jin/mu. Chatting, the reporter saw a bag of hardcover rice printed with the words Lu Quansha on the package. Lin Minghui, assistant general manager of Liuquansha Farm, revealed: "Now we will take the rice produced here to the processing plant for screening and processing. After marking the logo of Liuquansha, we will sell it on the market. The price per catty is about 12 yuan." Grain prices are high, in addition to benefiting from processing, quality naturally has to be guaranteed. For this reason, Huang Li can show his special skills, he plans to put more than 1000 small field ducks into rice fields. "These small ducks can eat pests and weeds, so they can reduce pests and diseases to a certain extent. Their feces can also be used as natural fertilizer. In the future, natural fertilizer will be used less, and the rice they produce will be more delicious." For his own "works", Huang Li can be full of confidence. (Southern Daily reporter Guo Dongdong)