Lack of labor to plant forage grass and harvest for many times has good benefits.

Original title: lack of labor to plant forage grass and get good results for many times.

Gao Linyun is mowing the grass.

Small files for poverty alleviation

General situation: although Gao Linyun, a villager of Shilong Village, Gaojia Town, Fengdu County, planted more than 15 mu of land, the whole family could not cover the income due to lack of labor, so he was listed as a poor household with a card.

Breakthrough: combined with a local 10,000 head beef cattle farm, which needs to buy a large amount of forage grass and straw, the Poverty Alleviation Task Force has developed an accurate assistance plan for the Gao Linyun family.

Path: the county association of science and technology organizes a door-to-door poverty alleviation group to guide Gao Linyun's forage planting technology and provide high-quality forage seeds.

Vision: according to the annual harvest of 8 tons of forage grass per mu and the minimum purchase price of 420 yuan / ton, the gross income of 15 mu land of Gao Linyun family will exceed 50,000 yuan.

"this piece of grass has to be saved for harvest by the Winter Solstice. At that time, the temperature was the coldest time of the year, and the growth of green feed was hindered, so it was relatively scarce, so it could be sold at a good price." Recently, Gao Linyun, a villager of Shilong Village, Gaojia Town, Fengdu County, took the author to visit his pasture field.

Develop a precise assistance plan

There are five members of Gao Linyun's family. His father is 80 years old, his wife is frail and sickly, and one of his two children goes to college and the other goes to high school. Although more than 15 mu of land has been planted, the whole family cannot cover the income due to lack of labor, so it is listed as a poor household with a card.

After the village team came to understand the specific situation, combined with the local ten thousand head beef cattle farm, need to purchase a large number of forage grass and straw, for his family to develop an accurate help plan.

"Lin Yun, considering the fact that your family is short of labor, we suggest that you concentrate your land to plant forage grass. You can harvest it many times after one sowing, and the forage grass can be sold directly to the cattle farm. What do you think?" The village task force had a heart-to-heart talk with Gao Linyun and calculated an account for him: according to the annual harvest of 8 tons of forage grass per mu and the minimum purchase price of 420 yuan per ton, the gross income of 15 mu of land is more than 50,000 yuan.

Teach sowing technology on the spot

The county association of science and technology organized a science and technology poverty alleviation group to guide Gao Linyun in cleaning, ploughing, ridging, applying sufficient base fertilizer and soil preparation, and then sowing high-quality forage seeds such as sweet sorghum, royal bamboo grass, and ryegrass.

"Fengdu is located in the hinterland of the three Gorges Reservoir area, with a warm and humid climate and a short extremely cold winter. Forage varieties in the north can grow smoothly in our county, and most tropical grass species can survive the winter smoothly." While explaining, the scientific and technical personnel demonstrated the sowing technology and tried their best to promote the planting of sweet sorghum to Gao Linyun, saying that the forage of this variety was sown in March of that year and could be harvested after the end of May. It can generally grow 2 meters high, and the yield per mu of the first stubble can reach more than 5 tons, and three crops can be harvested every year.

In view of the labor shortage in Gao Linyun's family, the scientific and technological personnel mainly taught him the planting techniques of annual forage, perennial forage and perennial forage. Scientific and technological personnel pointed out that it is suitable for annual forage grass, and spring sowing must be carried out because of the harvest in the year of sowing. Perennial and perennial grasses can be sown out of season.

"the sowing of forage grass is as important as crops. If the seedlings are not strong, it will affect the harvest of the whole land for a year. Combined with the climate and soil conditions of our county, the main way of sowing forage grass is strip sowing, followed by sowing and sowing on demand. " Scientists and technicians say, and put forward the requirements for different seed sowing depth.

Strengthen management to ensure efficiency

After the seeds emerged, scientists and technicians taught Gao Linyun field management techniques in time, including weed removal, fertilizer application, irrigation and drainage, pest control, and so on. Because these techniques are more or less the same as planting other crops, Gao Linyun can learn and understand a little. in addition, he has worked hard and used Didi sweat in exchange for the lush growth of forage grass.

In the twinkling of an eye, when the forage harvest time came, the scientific and technical personnel came to the scene again for technical guidance, requiring Gao Linyun to achieve the regeneration of forage grass, the safe overwintering and rejuvenation of perennial or perennial forage grass when cutting forage grass, and had no effect on the yield and life span of the next year. "in short, forage grass, like crops, should be harvested as soon as possible. Early harvest affects yield, and late harvest affects the next crop."

Facts have proved that planting forage grass has become an effective way for Gao Linyun to shake off poverty and become rich, and his family's net income from selling forage grass this year is not a problem. (text / photo by Li Dayuan, correspondent)