"Machine replacement" helps Modern Agriculture in Ningbo

The mechanization of grain production throughout the process has allowed farmers to bid farewell to the "three bends"; the popularization of agricultural machinery in agricultural characteristic industries has innovated the productivity of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fisheries; the socialization of agricultural machinery services has flourished, and some farmers have become "field bosses" of scale operation; facility agriculture has improved the efficiency of agricultural production and operation, and the construction of "intelligent agricultural machinery" is in the ascendant. Ningbo City Agricultural Machinery Bureau, led by "machine replacement", continuously promoted the transformation and upgrading of agricultural machinery and introduced more advanced agricultural machinery and intelligent agricultural facilities into agricultural production. By the end of 2013, the city's total agricultural machinery power reached 3.237 million kilowatts, with about 400,000 sets of various agricultural machinery. The total income of agricultural machinery operation services was 2.443 billion yuan, ranking first in the province and serving as the modern agricultural development of Ningbo City. The improvement of comprehensive agricultural production capacity provides strong equipment support.

Mechanization of food production:

It has changed the traditional mode of agricultural production and promoted the large-scale transfer of agricultural labor force and land scale management.

During this year's "double summer" period, in Yinzhou District, the largest grain drying center in Ningbo City,"Liangqiao Rice Industry" Company, two grain drying "giants" with a daily drying capacity of 1000 tons operate 24 hours a day. The wet grain unloaded from the truck enters the dryer, while the dried rice is quickly transported out along the caterpillar belt. Zhu Xiping, general manager of "Liang Bridge Rice Industry", introduced that in 2012, the company built a new underground ventilation system for warehouses, and cold wind blew into the grain pile from underground cracks, which could extend the stacking time of wet grain for more than half a month, thus solving the problem of drying wet grain at one stroke.

In recent years, agricultural machinery departments in Ningbo City have vigorously promoted mechanized rice cultivation and transplanting technology and mechanized grain drying technology. The mechanized rice transplanting area has increased from 44,000 mu in 2007 to 724,000 mu this year. The mechanized rice transplanting rate is 56%, which is more than 30 percentage points higher than the provincial average level. The mechanized rice cultivation and harvesting level is 86.8%, which is 20 percentage points higher than the national average. It has taken the lead in realizing the mechanization of mechanical tillage, mechanical transplanting and mechanical harvesting of grain production in the whole province. There are more than 50 grain drying centers, 827 grain drying machines, and batch drying capacity of about 10500 tons, ranking first in the province.

The realization of mechanization of grain production has completely changed the mode of grain production in Ningbo City, which not only stabilizes the grain planting area and ensures food security, but also promotes the scale management of land and transfers a large number of agricultural labor force.

Mechanization of production in characteristic industries:

"Machine Replacement" Innovates Agricultural Productivity

In 2013, Cixi Shishan Agricultural Machinery Cooperative took the lead in introducing two fresh soybean harvesters in the whole province, completing 4000 mu of soybean harvest within 40 days, and the operation efficiency reached 120 times of manual operation. "Pastoral robot" shines brilliantly in the field of characteristic agriculture, which not only makes the enterprises that dare to try taste the sweetness, but also urges the Municipal Agricultural Machinery Bureau to increase the promotion of mechanization of characteristic agricultural industry.

In the first half of this year, Ningbo City issued a new policy of municipal financial subsidies for the purchase of characteristic industries and high-performance agricultural machinery. It has subsidized 28 sets (sets) of featured and high-performance agricultural machinery such as fresh soybean harvesters, unmanned plant protection small aircraft, large granary and high-horsepower combine harvesters, etc.

"In the past, there were very few domestic machinery used for planting and harvesting operations in characteristic industries, but in the machinery catalogue promoted and supported by the state, there was basically no agricultural machinery suitable for cash crops in Ningbo City," said the relevant person in charge of the Municipal Agricultural Machinery Bureau. The inclusion of characteristic and high-performance agricultural machinery into the purchase subsidy stimulated the enthusiasm of cooperatives and enterprises to try "machine replacement."

With fresh soybean harvester as the representative, Ningbo City is speeding up the mechanization of main production links such as vegetables, tea, flowers and other cash crops, livestock and poultry and aquaculture, and will further improve the subsidy policy for characteristic agricultural machinery, and test and popularize new agricultural machinery and tools for characteristic industries in farms and demonstration bases with certain scale.

Socialization of agricultural machinery services:

Full coverage of operation services, and development towards enterprise, specialization and scale upgrading

In June this year, the province's first professional, joint-stock agricultural machinery operation service company "Yushi Agricultural Machinery" was established in Ningbo City. The company was registered and established by three large agricultural machinery households according to the requirements of joint-stock companies. The estimated value of agricultural machinery owned reached 1.73 million yuan, realizing the shareholding of assets, institutionalization of management, enterprise-oriented operation, high-tech machinery and large-scale service. According to estimates, the company's operation service scale this year can reach 35,000 mu times, agricultural machinery operation service income of more than 3 million yuan.

Agricultural machinery socialization service organization is an important part of constructing new agricultural management system, and also an important guarantee for moderate agricultural management scale. The total number of agricultural machinery professional cooperatives in Ningbo City has reached 372, and the average number of agricultural machinery cooperatives in each township in Ningbo City has reached 2.9, ranking first in the country. "No matter in terms of development quantity, service level or service benefit, agricultural machinery professional cooperatives in Ningbo City rank first in the province." City agricultural machinery bureau relevant responsible person introduction.

At this stage, Ningbo City agricultural machinery professional cooperation organizations have entered the stage of quality improvement from the stage of quantity growth, with 118 operating service areas of more than 5000 mu, and 10 regional agricultural machinery comprehensive service centers integrating standardized service organizations, technology promotion training centers, service maintenance centers and drying processing centers. The newly established agricultural machinery operation service company has transformed the loose cooperative with agricultural machinery into a close joint-stock company with modern enterprise system. The machinery use efficiency is higher, the management is more scientific and effective, the socialized service ability is stronger, the operation service benefit is more obvious, the large-scale production and standardized operation can be realized, and the labor productivity and resource utilization rate can be effectively improved. It is the "upgraded version" of the new agricultural machinery service organization.

Agricultural facilities:

Steel frame greenhouse planted "ten thousand yuan field"

What kind of improvement can facility agriculture bring to agricultural efficiency? Hu Xinyan, owner of Kandun Yulan Fruit and Vegetable Farm in Cixi City, which owns 1200 mu of open-air farmland and 100 mu of greenhouse, is very clear. Relying on planting anti-seasonal vegetables to fight "time difference", his greenhouse early got the food processing factory order "iron rice bowl", the average output value of vegetables per mu also soared from 2000 yuan in the open air to 7500 yuan. In addition to order farming, the farm also grows strawberries, small tomatoes and other leisure sightseeing fruits. Like many farmers with greenhouses, Hu Xinyan has begun to target the next market: leisure sightseeing picking agriculture.

Ningbo City has more people and less land, and its per capita resources are insufficient. In particular, it needs to vigorously develop facility agriculture with high input, high output, high benefit, high technology and high quality. Starting from 2010, with the consent of the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Finance, Ningbo City, as a pilot project, will bring the construction of facility agriculture into the scope of subsidies for the purchase of agricultural machinery by the central government, implement project management on subsidies for steel frame greenhouses and glass greenhouses, and focus on supporting grain production functional areas, modern agricultural parks, agricultural industrialization bases and agricultural mechanization demonstration parks.