I didn't expect to have such a bumper harvest this year! A bumper harvest of autumn grain in Shandong and Henan has become a foregone conclusion.

Huaxian County, Henan Province, Chengxinzhuang Village, Liugu Town, the demonstration side of the implementation of late harvest technology of corn field. According to experts, peeling and drying late-harvested corn will increase the corn yield by 10 kg per mu for every late harvest.

Autumn is strong, thousands of miles of fields, to spread the autumn grain harvest picture scroll. According to the agricultural regulation of the Ministry of Agriculture, a bumper harvest of autumn grain in Shandong, Henan and other provinces has become a foregone conclusion. According to preliminary production estimates, the area of autumn grain in Shandong Province is 55.475 million mu, an increase of 1.17 million mu, or 2.1%, over the previous year; and the total output is 46.976 billion jin, an increase of 800 million jin, or 1.7%, over the previous year.

Once upon a time, drought was tight and threatened the production of autumn grain in the North China Plain. Once upon a time, aphids and borer insects ate the basis of a bumper harvest of autumn grain in the North China Plain. The golden corn is telling that it is really "the year of the Ox and Horse, good farming", and another bumper harvest in the North China Plain.

Daejeon sleeps on the ditch, not worrying about drought and flood.

"I really didn't expect to have such a bumper harvest this year!" In the corn field of Guozhai Village, Linyi County, Shandong Province, Zhang Xinyao, a big grain grower known as the "grain king of Dezhou", can hardly hide his joy.

What a bumper harvest? Zhang Xinyao pointed to the corn field in front of him: "this is the field. The agricultural department of the county has just measured its yield, and the yield per unit area is more than 1200 jin."

This year's drought is unusual. It has been dry from spring to autumn. This is a severe drought that has not been seen in the meteorological history of Linyi for decades. No wonder the farmer brothers are all sweating for the autumn harvest. Chen Guangchun, deputy magistrate of Linyi County, said, and Zhang Xinyao chimed in: "seeing Daejeon grinning, can you not worry about it?"

Why can we still have a bumper harvest? Small farmers' water came in handy. In recent years, Linyi County has made great efforts to break through the thirsty "last kilometer" of crops. In 2012, a small farmers' water project was launched throughout the county to clean up the dead corners of irrigation and drainage. In July this year, the first phase of Linyi's "2013-2015 high-standard demonstration county for irrigation and water conservancy construction" was completed and put into use, with a total investment of 24.12 million yuan, 14 new small-scale pumping stations and 72 culverts, 56.3km of dredging ditches, 26km of new production roads, 129km of pipelines, and 23000 mu of high-standard irrigation area. Six new technologies such as soil moisture monitoring, unmanned monitoring and automatic alarm are adopted, and irrigation informatization is basically realized.

After the small-scale farmers' water project is in place, the farmland irrigation conditions in Linyi County have been significantly improved. The effective irrigation area of the county has reached 701000 mu, the area of water-saving irrigation has reached 410000 mu, the annual saving of irrigation water is 120 million cubic meters, and the comprehensive grain production capacity of the county has increased by 12%, with an average annual increase of 38.8 million kg and farmers' income of 4038 yuan.

Water conservancy projects enhance the comprehensive production capacity of grain. In the year of severe drought, the role of water conservancy in ensuring crops has once again been confirmed in Huaxian County, Henan Province.

Huaxian County has 1.95 million mu of arable land, planting more than 2.7 million mu of grain all the year round, with a total output of 2.7 billion jin. It is a typical agricultural county, a populous county and a major grain county. It is known as the "granary of northern Henan". It is the first wheat county in China, the first grain-producing county in Henan Province, and the advanced "eleven consecutive champions" in national grain production.

The drought, which has not been encountered for many years, makes Huaxian County very worried. Since 1963, grain production in Huaxian County has never experienced such a severe drought. As Huaxian County has always attached great importance to the construction of farmland infrastructure, "in the end, the drought has not done anything to us." Chen Zhong, the county magistrate, sighed very much.

Since 2012, Huaxian County has planned 33 high-standard grain fields of 10,000 mu, 38 of 1000 mu and 10 of 100 mu, with a planned area of 1.55 million mu, comprehensively planning land management, water conservancy irrigation and drainage, field roads, forest network protection, electric power supporting and other projects, centralized construction, farmland infrastructure has been improved, the county has more than 36000 motor wells, and the effective irrigation area has reached 1.5606 million mu.

"Daejeon sleeps on the canal, and he doesn't have to worry about drought and flood." Chen Zhong said: in the face of the severe drought this autumn, Huaxian County has advanced planning and scientific response, winning the battle to fight drought and ensure a bumper harvest of autumn grain, and the yield measurement is also a bumper harvest.

Good seed and good method, planted "ton grain field"

How much effect does agricultural science and technology have on grain harvest? The ten thousand mu demonstration square of Sun Hansu Village, Zhaijia Town, Linyi County is really admirable.

"with 'one increase and four changes', the crops are just different." Sun Fengzhong, the village branch secretary, brought the reporter to this demonstration party. "guess what the corn yield is in this experimental field? The county agricultural bureau came to measure the yield, and the per unit yield was 1800 jin to 1900 jin. We bookmakers dared not even think about this output in the past! "

What do you mean by "one increase and four changes"? Qi Baoping, director of Zhaijiazhen Agricultural Technology Station, told reporters about the "bumper harvest" of summer corn-- appropriately increasing planting density, changing density-tolerant varieties, changing interplanting to direct seeding, changing extensive fertilization to formula fertilization, and changing manual operation to mechanized operation.

Lao Sun hurriedly asked the reporter to investigate the density of corn planting. Ho! The stem of the corn is almost at the root. Qi Baoping said: "with 5400 plants per mu in this experimental field, it is not surprising that the per unit yield is high." Farmers generally plant 4200 trees in the field, and the estimated yield in the whole county this year is 1219 jin per unit. According to Qi Baoping, the appropriate late harvest technology of summer corn promoted by the Ministry of Agriculture has also seen results in Zhaijiazhen. Since the beginning of October, for every day of delayed harvest, the yield can be increased by 10 kg per mu.

Looking up at the sign of the plot, it turned out that this was a demonstration piece for the Ministry of Agriculture to create a high yield of 10,000 mu of grain, with the goal of an average yield of 650 kg per 10,000 mu of wheat and 850 kg per 10,000 mu of corn. Lao Sun calculated the output account: "with wheat and corn, we have already achieved a ton of fertile land, but we are still far from the goal on this brand."

If a good law is the secret of a good harvest, then a good seed is the key to a good harvest. During interviews in Linyi County, Shandong Province, Wenshang County, and Lankao County, Henan Province, the reporter found that the corn seeds that farmers generally like are "Denghai 605" and "Zhengdan 958" with lodging resistance and high yield.

Relying on Huafeng seed Company, a key leading enterprise in agricultural industrialization, Huaxian County hired Cheng Shunhe Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and Zhang Shihuang, the chief scientist of the national corn industry system, as experts to set up an academician expert workstation to carry out seed research. As a result, the promotion of improved varieties in Huaxian County has been continuously increased, and the coverage rate of improved corn varieties mainly composed of "dredged sheet" series, "slippery jade" series and "Zhengdan 958" in the county has reached 100%.

Science and technology have inserted flying wings for a bumper grain harvest. During the autumn grain production this year, Huaxian County hired Guo Tiancai, deputy head of the national wheat expert group, Li Chaohai, head of the Henan corn expert group, and other 15 well-known experts to set up an expert service team to give advice and solve problems for grain production. Expert groups and technical instructors have gone to the countryside to guide more than 4000 people and trained more than 400,000 people, which has played a key role in comprehensively winning this year's autumn grain harvest.

According to the survey, the planting area of autumn grain in Huaxian County this year is 1.086 million mu, with an estimated average yield of 1250.6 jin, an increase of 186.6 jin, or 17.5%, over the previous year. The total output is expected to be 1.358 billion jin, an increase of 246 million jin, or 22.12%, over the previous year. Among them, 1.047 million mu of corn is planted, with an average yield of 1256.48 jin and a total yield of 1.316 billion jin. The area, per unit yield and total output are expected to reach an all-time high.

New operators join hands with farmers to "round" the autumn harvest

Behind the endless harvest in the North China Plain, there is an active new type of rural management main body. It is the role of new operators such as single households, joint households, large households, cooperatives and family farms that has led to one harvest story after another.

The development of new operators in rural areas has promoted grain production and changed the fate of farmers. Jia Weitao is a "respectable" farmer in Wenshang County, Shandong Province. Because his experience is the development process of almost all new business entities: once a single household, but also developed into a joint household, a large household, and is the head of a family farm and cooperative, relying on the transfer of 1700 mu of arable land, now he is engaged in grain production, with an annual net income of more than 1 million.

Single household has always been the main body of agricultural production in China, and today's single household is no longer the single household in the past. Huang Guoxing, a villager of Xihejing, Baidaokou Town, Huaxian County, fell in love with agricultural technology during the guide of agricultural technicians. by increasing the planting density of corn, he introduced "Longping 206" and achieved a per unit yield of 1300 jin this year. In the process of grain production, he has grown into a new type of professional farmer from brute force to skillful force, from experience to science and technology.

Joint households, large households, cooperatives and family farms are all pulsing new connotations in modern agricultural production. Linyi County, through the alliance of large grain growers, grain production has reached a new level. At present, there are 47 large grain growers of more than 100 mu in Linyi, with a planting area of nearly 200000 mu. After the alliance, better intensive production has been achieved. Wei Dedong, a farmer in Deping Town who has transferred 3000 mu of arable land, is a "major grain grower in the country." he said: "because more than 10 major grain growers have joined together, we dare to accept even the largest grain orders."

Industrial and commercial capital poured in. In Lankao County, Henan Province, the Lankao Modern Ecological Agricultural and Pastoral Park of Jinkai Group transferred 9500 mu of arable land at one time last year, and the transferred arable land mainly planted corn and wheat. The transfer price calculated according to the output of 1000 jin of wheat is 1118 yuan. The state directly subsidizes farmers. In addition to the income of the transferred land, farmers can also choose to work in agricultural and animal husbandry gardens to earn another income.

Rural reform has created new conditions for the development of modern agriculture and the promotion of grain production.

The land of the North China Plain is full of bumper harvests, annotating the new atmosphere of rural reform.