Grasp the grain production in the late autumn to ensure the stability of grain

Reporter learned from the Agricultural and Rural Bureau of Zigong City, Sichuan Province, that after the agricultural production of Zigong City entered mid-May, there were more rainy days, insufficient light, and repeated instability of temperature, which had a certain impact on grain production in spring. In order to ensure the target of 1.38 million tons of total grain production in the whole year, Zigong City attaches great importance to strengthening organization and leadership, increasing measures, increasing investment, and vigorously grasping late autumn production with the focus on Ratooning rice, striving to make up for late autumn losses in spring and making every effort to ensure the stability of total grain production in Zigong City. 

The production of regenerated rice, regenerated sorghum and autumn soybean should be strengthened. Zigong Municipality should seize the favorable conditions of abundant rainwater and sufficient field water storage, continue to expand the storage area on the basis of stabilizing the area retained in previous years, and make great efforts to improve the success rate of storage and yield per unit area. Mobilize and train township, village group and farmers to implement the key technology of sufficient application of Ratooning Rice Bud promotion fertilizer in time to ensure that one mu is retained and one mu is successful. At present, the growth of regenerated paddy fields is good.

Highlighted regenerated sorghum and expanded autumn soybean. All districts and counties take the production of regenerated sorghum as one of the directions of late autumn production, further intensify efforts, promote regenerated sorghum storage technology, and actively expand the storage area of regenerated sorghum. Through standardized production demonstrations such as integrated pest control in demonstration area, radiation drives surrounding farmers to develop regenerated sorghum. Meanwhile, the soybean revitalization plan of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Areas has been implemented in depth, and the soybean planting expansion mission of Zigong City in Sichuan Province in 2019 has been accomplished by all means. Farmers have been actively guided through the intercropping of young forests (fruit trees, pepper, Chinese herbal medicines and other cash crops), sorghum (maize) row intercropping (intercropping) and the empty fields and ridges. The pattern of increasing seed in idle land enlarges the planting area of soybean, further enhances the total effective supply of soybean, and ensures that the task of enlarging seed in 45,000 mu of soybean is completed in an all-round way.

Grasp autumn sweet potatoes and autumn potatoes. Sweet potatoes and potatoes have a good market and high economic benefits. Publicize and mobilize all districts and counties to take market demand as guidance, actively and steadily expand Autumn Potato and Autumn Potato cultivation, so as to increase the yield and efficiency of grain crops and realize the increase of farmers'production and income.

Develop technical training and grasp the key to promote implementation. In late autumn, there are many kinds of crops, short production cycle and strong technology. Various localities have conducted extensive production technology training in late autumn by holding yard and dam meetings, on-site meetings, radio, television media publicity, newspapers and periodicals, etc. Agricultural departments organize agricultural technicians to enter villages, go deep into fields, carry out on-site technical guidance, urge farmers to seize the favorable season and implement various high-yield cultivation techniques for late autumn crops.

Next step measures

Continue to strengthen organizational leadership, increase measures, increase investment, and make every effort to grasp the late autumn production focusing on the work of Ratooning Rice and autumn soybean expansion, so as to make up for the late autumn losses in spring and make every effort to ensure the stability of the total grain production in Zigong City.

Do a good job in guiding agricultural production technology, achieve green pest control and standardized production within the scope of Zigong City, and promote the balanced increase of yield of Ratooning Rice and sorghum in Zigong City by demonstration.