Heilongjiang's grain output ranks first in the country for the first time

According to the Voice of China News and Newspaper Abstracts, Heilongjiang Province built large-scale water conservancy projects and developed large-scale agricultural machinery. In return, the province’s food production has increased by eight. This year, grain production for the first time has leapt to the top of the nation.

In another year of good harvest, Wang Shuchun, a farmer in Dongxing Village, Lindian County, Heilongjiang, experienced the most profound changes brought about by water conservancy projects:

Wang Shuchun: It brings a lot of benefits, and the increase of the benefits of 1,000 yuan per mu.

In 2011, Heilongjiang Province relied on large-scale irrigation areas to develop paddy fields, use rice to control floods, and use the capacity of adjusting and accumulating water resources in the Nierji water conservancy project in the western part of the country to build flood and drought protection lands.

The Deputy Director of the Department of Water Resources of Heilongjiang Province Ruan Xinping: In the past five years, we have added more than 30 million mu of irrigated area. It is precisely because of the large-scale and rapid development of the irrigated area, which has laid a solid foundation for grain production in our province.

Dashui profit Zelongjiang grain fields, large agricultural machinery also to the harvest, 385 sets of GPS satellite positioning and automatic driving system and 213 imported precision seed drills of the Nongsan 3rd Bureau of Agriculture and Landscaping, making the overall agricultural mechanization rate exceed 98%.

Farming Jiuzhai Management Bureau Heshan Farm Second Livestock District driver Mu Shaofeng: I have a fairly high operating efficiency of this Case 535 wheeled tractor. The satellite positioning can be done with a single key, without manual driving, compared to the car I opened before. In terms of land preparation, the efficiency is more than doubled.

At the end of the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan”, the total grain output of Heilongjiang Province will start to hit 150 billion kilograms.

Ji Bingxuan, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee of Heilongjiang Province: We did not talk about harvesting in the harvest season. We put the land in good order in autumn. We arranged spring plowing, weeding in autumn and soil preparation, and now we have prepared enough food for the next year. There is a good harvest.