Xu Muxiang, a major grain grower in the country.

As an outstanding representative of the agricultural science popularization front in Anhui Province, he participated in the regional trials and production test projects of new crop varieties in the province, and at the same time participated in the national agricultural science popularization research work, which increased agricultural efficiency and farmers' income in the Huang-Huai region by hundreds of millions of yuan.

Person profile: Xu Gongxiang, born in 1953, is currently deputy secretary of the party general branch and director of the village committee of Zhang Huai Village, Jiuxian Town, Taihe County, a national model worker, a major national grain grower, and a national leader of Huinong Village with popular science. Representative of the eighth Party Congress of Anhui Province, deputy to the second and third Fuyang National people's Congress.

In 2007, with a good harvest of 607.3 kg, Zhang Huai Village broke the record of wheat yield per mu in Anhui Province, and the average yield per mu of soybean was 180kg, the highest average per unit yield of high-protein and high-quality soybean in Huang-Huai region. The person who created this miracle is Xu Muxiang, the leader of science popularization who closely relies on the organization of the Agricultural Technology Association and vigorously popularizes new agricultural technologies and achievements.

Xu Muxiang held the wheat harvest in his hand, and his heart was filled with joy. (photo by Sun Jianguo)

In 2005, with the approval of relevant departments, Xu Gongxiang took the lead in establishing the Taihe County High-quality and efficient Agricultural Technology Association, which consists of 13 popular science groups and 23 township popular science branches, such as pollution-free planting, breeding of improved varieties, tackling key problems of high yield, water-saving irrigation, scientific breeding, purchase and sale of agricultural products, scientific and technological information, and construction of new rural areas. at present, it has 2363 members and 6258 demonstration households, almost all villages and towns in the county. The association popularizes and promotes more than 10 new technologies and achievements every year, producing social benefits of tens of millions of yuan, and turning a number of poverty-stricken households into demonstration households for the popularization of science.

One seed can change the world, and an agricultural science and technology can greatly increase crop yields. In order to vigorously popularize and popularize new agricultural technologies, Xu Muxiang, based on his more than 30 years of practical experience, compiled the high-quality and high-yield cultivation techniques of wheat and soybeans into books in the form of easy-to-understand proverbs, made wall charts and distributed them to villagers and members free of charge. The technical regulations for the cultivation of high-quality wheat with a yield of more than 1000 jin per mu in Huang-Huai region and the new high-yield cultivation techniques for new high-protein soybean varieties have been identified as provincial-level scientific and technological achievements by provincial agricultural experts and have been popularized and used in the province.

In order to meet the scientific farming needs of villagers and members, Xu Muxiang took the lead in setting up farmers' popular science books in the county and bought VCDs and various popular science books at his own expense. In recent years, thousands of mu of agricultural popular science demonstration parks he has set up have implemented the "five-unified" model of fine varieties, formula fertilization, planting management, mechanical harvesting, and order price increase. The average yield per mu of wheat and soybeans in the low-yield depressions of the whole village is more than 30% higher than that of the project, and the output value per mu is increased by 300 yuan, thus increasing the annual income of Zhang Huai Village by nearly 1 million yuan.

At present, the high-quality wheat and soybean science popularization demonstration park created by Xu Gongxiang has been recognized by the Provincial Agricultural Commission as a pollution-free agricultural product base and a breeding base for high-quality wheat varieties, and has been named as "the core demonstration area of the provincial grain abundant project" by the Provincial Science and Technology Department. Taiyu 976, a new high-quality and super-high-yield wheat variety he carefully cultivated, has a very obvious yield-increasing effect in the provincial regional test, and his new soybean variety Taifeng 3 has been tested by the Soybean quality Supervision, Inspection and Test Center of the Ministry of Agriculture. The total content of crude protein is 5 percentage points higher than that of ordinary soybean. Recently, the Ministry of Agriculture has decided to establish the only high-protein soybean core demonstration area and soybean demonstration area of ten thousand mu in Zhanghuai Village in Anhui Province.

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The greatest joy of living is to contribute to society. It is my eternal pursuit to increase agricultural efficiency and increase farmers' income.