Improving agricultural quality and increasing efficiency to promote farmers’ high yield and harvest
In the past year, Xinjiang’s agricultural and rural development has made gratifying achievements. The whole region takes the implementation of rural revitalization strategy as the general focus of the work concerning agriculture, rural areas and farmers in the new era, implements the requirements of high-quality development, continuously improves the quality and efficiency of agricultural development, consolidates the sustained good momentum of agricultural and rural development, realizes the improvement of agricultural quality and efficiency, and enables farmers to have a bumper harvest.
According to the government work report, it is proposed to promote the quality and efficiency of agriculture, adhere to the principle of stabilizing grain, improving cotton, strengthening fruit, promoting livestock and promoting characteristics, and ensure the absolute safety of grain by planting an area of not less than 33 million mu.
In the first year of the "14th Five-Year Plan", how to give full play to the role of "ballast stone" of agriculture, rural areas and farmers, continue to promote agricultural quality improvement and efficiency improvement, and accelerate agricultural and rural modernization has become a hot topic for delegates at the two sessions of the autonomous region in 2021.
Tamp the foundation, stabilize production and ensure supply.
Ensuring the stable supply of important agricultural products is an important mission of agricultural and rural work in Xinjiang. In 2020, agricultural production in the whole region will reap another bumper harvest, achieving the goal of "basically self-sufficient grains and absolutely safe rations", laying a solid foundation for the overall promotion of epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development in the whole region.
"Ensuring food security is the primary task, and we can’t relax at any time." Guo Xiaoping, member of the Political Consultative Conference of the Autonomous Region and secretary of the Party Committee of Niulu Township, Nadaqi, Qapqal Xibe Autonomous County, said that in the process of doing a good job in stabilizing grain, it is necessary to ensure that the grain area does not decrease and the output does not drop, and both quantity and quality should be guaranteed.
Guo Xiaoping said that in 2021, Niulu Township of Nadaqi will vigorously implement the strategy of "storing grain on the ground and storing grain in technology", build a 40,000-mu corn planting demonstration base, tilt high-standard farmland construction projects to grain production areas, and use the best cultivated land to produce grain, so as to make the foundation for ensuring food security more solid.
Cotton is the pillar industry of agricultural development in Manas County, and the local area will develop high-efficiency agriculture according to local conditions, so that cotton production efficiency will reach a new level. Zheng Lei, deputy to the People’s Congress of the autonomous region and secretary of the Party Committee of Manas Town, Manas County, said that in 2021, Manas Town will implement a new round of cotton target price reform policy, step by step withdraw from the sub-optimal cotton area, strengthen cooperation with scientific research units, further improve cotton quality and promote the high-quality development of cotton industry.
Zhu Gang, member of the Political Consultative Conference of the Autonomous Region and director of the Agricultural Office of the Party Committee of the Autonomous Region, said that ensuring supply is the eternal theme of agricultural and rural work. In 2021, the whole region will continue to exert efforts to ensure food security and effective supply of important agricultural products, and ensure that the grain production area and output will only increase. Start the implementation of the "one main and one auxiliary" wheat planting mode, and the northern Xinjiang will focus on the demonstration of high-quality and efficient grain production, and integrate and popularize the standardized technical mode. On the premise of ensuring food security, the southern Xinjiang will gradually withdraw from the fruit-grain intercropping area, increase the area of "white land" for planting grain, strictly prevent the "non-grain" of cultivated land, continuously improve the comprehensive grain production level, and strive to win a bumper grain harvest. The whole region will continue to pay close attention to the improvement of cotton quality, and all localities will continue to withdraw from cotton production in sub-suitable cotton areas, risk cotton areas and fruit-cotton intercropping areas, plant cotton in the most suitable places, and focus on the implementation of the "one main and two auxiliary" planting model to ensure that the proportion of high-quality cotton varieties will be increased to over 90%, and continue to promote the high-quality development of cotton industry. At the same time, in 2021, the region plans to increase the output of meat and milk by more than 100,000 tons each, and increase the output of eggs by more than 10,000 tons to ensure the stable development of livestock and poultry production.
Science leads to increase production and harvest.
In recent years, forestry and fruit industry has played an increasingly important role in the process of driving farmers to increase their income continuously and steadily in Xinjiang. Thanks to the in-depth implementation of the project of improving quality and increasing efficiency of forestry and fruit industry, the per capita net income of fruit farmers in the whole region has exceeded 6,000 yuan, achieving "four improvements" in quality, output, science and technology and income.
"We will continue to promote the quality improvement and efficiency improvement project of forestry and fruit industry, so that the pillar industries that villagers can increase their income and get rich will be more dynamic." Ainiwal Nur, deputy to the People’s Congress of the autonomous region and secretary of the Party branch of Kuonawutang Village, Daqiao Township, Baicheng County, said that in recent years, the whole village has implemented the project of improving the quality and efficiency of forestry and fruit industry. By popularizing scientific planting management techniques, the quality of walnuts has been greatly improved, effectively solving the problems of empty shells and black walnuts, and the average yield of walnuts per mu has increased by nearly 40%.
"Driven by agricultural science and technology professionals, today, a team of local technicians has been set up in Kunawutang Village. They have provided technical guidance services for walnut growers in the village for a long time and played a key role in improving the quality and efficiency of the walnut industry. Techniques such as scientific fertilization and scientific management have been widely used in walnut planting. " Ainiwal Nur said that the whole village has also carried out the work of replacing chemical fertilizer with organic fertilizer, which has greatly reduced the amount of chemical fertilizer used in walnut planting and further improved the benefits.
In terms of animal husbandry development, Bulunkou Township of Akto County also plans to improve the comprehensive benefits of industrial development by adopting scientific breeding methods. "We will continue to do a good job in improving animal husbandry varieties, scientific breeding, and extending the industrial chain to increase the added value of animal husbandry products." Li Wenjuan, member of the Political Consultative Conference of the Autonomous Region and secretary of the Party Committee of Bulunkou Township, Akto County, said that in 2021, Bulunkou Township will adopt the production mode of "four advantages and one standardization", standardize the production mode of animal husbandry through the use of supporting measures such as improved varieties, good materials, good houses, good laws and standardized epidemic prevention, and build a highly standardized, large-scale and refined animal husbandry cooperative, so as to save costs and increase efficiency in animal husbandry and promote people’s income and get rich.
Highlight characteristics, improve quality and increase efficiency
In the process of improving the quality and efficiency of agricultural production, it has become an active exploration in various places to highlight the advantages of regional industrial development by laying a good brand.
"Industrial prosperity is the premise of solving all problems in rural areas, and it is of great significance to cultivate and expand industries with distinctive advantages to improve agricultural quality and efficiency." Zheng Lei said that in 2021, Manas Town will develop characteristic crops such as wine grapes, vegetables, melons and fruits according to local conditions on the basis of stabilizing grain production, make full use of the advantages of rich selenium in local soil, increase the planting area of ecological selenium-enriched characteristic crops, actively develop characteristic fruit industries such as fresh grapes and strawberries, and cultivate organic selenium-enriched characteristic agricultural products brands.
Seed industry is the "chip" of agriculture. In recent years, a number of new varieties of wheat and corn have been selected by Xinjiang researchers, which have improved the yield and quality. In 2021, the whole region will make good use of its unique geographical and climatic advantages and make great efforts to develop modern seed industry.
"Xinjiang will make simultaneous efforts in the protection of germplasm resources, independent innovation, strengthening enterprises, building bases and controlling risks, and actively develop modern seed industry." Zhu Gang said that we will promote the construction of "four million mu" seed bases for wheat, corn, cotton and special cash crops at a high level, and take the high-quality seed base as "buttonwood" to attract "golden phoenix". At the same time, a number of leading seed enterprises and scientific research institutes in the autonomous region will be organized to participate in the national joint breeding research, and vigorously cultivate leading seed enterprises with annual sales exceeding 100 million yuan. Accelerate the construction of a modern seed industry development system based on seed production base, combining Industry-University-Research, and integrating breeding, reproduction and promotion, and continuously improve the breeding innovation ability. The whole region will also do a good job in the protection, utilization, cultivation and promotion of high-quality livestock and poultry variety resources, implement the action plan of introducing fertile cows and ewes and large-scale breeding of chickens, ducks, geese, rabbits and pigeons, and accelerate the improvement of independent seed supply and breeding capacity.
Photothermal resources have also become a favorable support for the development of characteristic industries in Xinjiang. "In 2021, the whole region will develop small varieties of local products based on local characteristic resources, and the southern Xinjiang region will make full use of the light and heat conditions in winter, continue to do a good job in the construction and use of small arch sheds in farmers’ courtyards and simple arch sheds in fields, accelerate the development of large-scale facility vegetable industry, continue to issue and implement the task of re-sowing and storing vegetables in winter, and strive to improve the vegetable supply capacity by more than 50% by 2022 to fill the shortcomings of winter vegetable supply in Xinjiang." Zhu Gang said.