China News Service, Ju County, Shandong, September 22 (Reporter Sun Tingting) The Shandong main event of the 2026 Chinese Farmers Harvest Festival was held on the 22nd in Tianjiadianzi Village, Ju County, Rizhao City. The event focuses on displaying the fruitful achievements of Shandong's rural revitalization, and sets up 11 exhibition areas including the rural revitalization area exhibition, Ju County's characteristic industry market, and the "High-Quality Shandong Special Agricultural Products" harvest market.
The Rural Revitalization Area Exhibition focuses on the construction achievements of rural revitalization areas in 16 cities, and tells the story of Shandong's in-depth study and application of the experience of the "Ten Million Project" and the use of area construction as the starting point to create a Qilu model for rural revitalization. At present, the province has built a total of 2,070 areas, covering more than 18,000 administrative villages. Each area adheres to planning guidance, industry first, and joint village construction, and has cultivated a number of typical examples that can be replicated and promoted.
At the scene, staff from the "Yi Road Blossoms" rural revitalization area in Tangyi Town, Dongchangfu District, Liaocheng City were displaying and selling gourd handicrafts. According to reports, the area relies on ecological resources such as ancient canals and wetlands and suburban advantages to dig deep into gourd culture and develop gourd specialty industries, with annual comprehensive benefits reaching 1.6 billion yuan (RMB, the same below). In addition, under the "one village, one product" layout, Zhangzhuang Village in the area focuses on "Cao Li Jin" gourds, with a planting area of more than 300 acres; Luzhuang Village relies on the cultivation of Santing gourds and has become an important production area of ornamental gourds. Through large-scale and clustered development, this area has become an important gourd planting and trading area.
The smart agricultural machinery (disaster prevention and mitigation equipment) exhibition area comprehensively displays the full chain of modern agricultural machinery and equipment suitable for mountainous hills, field planting, and facility agriculture. It brings together new agricultural machinery such as hybrid tractors, crawler corn harvesters, plant protection drones, and smart irrigation equipment. It is paired with a real-life display of grain drying sand tables, focusing on cutting-edge technologies such as lightweight mountain operations, smart plant protection, water-saving irrigation, disaster prevention and drainage, and grain drying loss reduction.
With more than 30 years of experience in small agricultural machinery, Rizhao Liying Machinery Manufacturing Co., Ltd. has more than 300 agricultural machinery products, covering the entire process of plowing, planting, managing and harvesting food crops and cash crops. At this event, the company focused on exhibiting single-row direct-connected corn harvesters, field management machines, and electric remote-controlled crawler rotary tillers.
Zhang Zuokun, general manager of the above-mentioned company, said that currently, most people engaged in agricultural production are between 50 and 70 years old. As they age, they have more and more needs for small machines that are light and easy to operate. "For example, our single-row direct-connected corn harvester has changed the long-term situation of relying on manual harvesting in hilly areas. It can harvest about one acre of land in one hour, which improves operating efficiency."
Shandong is a major agricultural machinery province. The total power of agricultural machinery in the province exceeds 110 million kilowatts, and the comprehensive mechanization rate of main crop cultivation and harvesting reaches more than 90%. In recent years, the province has promoted high-horsepower and intelligent agricultural machinery equipment, with more than 300,000 high-horsepower tractors and more than 10,000 plant protection drones. In addition, the province is promoting the digital transformation of agricultural production and cultivating application scenarios such as "unmanned farms", smart greenhouses, and smart pastures.
The "Qilu Granary" theme exhibition includes special sections such as seed industry revitalization, smart agriculture, animal husbandry industry, marine fishery blue granary, green production technology, and meteorological services, comprehensively displaying Shandong's achievements in consolidating the foundation of food security and empowering agriculture with science and technology to improve quality and efficiency.
Shandong Dongxin Plastic Technology Co., Ltd., located in Yanggu County, Liaocheng City, has begun to develop a high-standard farmland irrigation and drainage integrated pipe network system in 2021, and is currently promoting the technology in Anhui, Henan, Shandong and other places. Duan Guodong, deputy general manager of the company, said that the integrated irrigation and drainage pipe network system is generally laid after the corn is harvested and the land is cleaned. The cost per mu is about 300 to 400 yuan, and the pipe network is designed to have a service life of about 50 years. The system can also be grafted with intelligent agricultural machinery such as self-propelled irrigation equipment, and adapt to different solutions according to terrain and crop types.
In Duan Guodong's view, at present, agricultural production must not only increase unit yields, but also focus on reducing yield-reducing factors such as waterlogging, and improve farmland disaster prevention and reduction capabilities. "The integrated irrigation, drainage and fertilizer pipe network system can alleviate problems such as waterlogging in farmland and poor drainage and irrigation to a certain extent," he said.
It is reported that the area of integrated water and fertilizer technology in Shandong Province has exceeded 8 million acres, covering major crops. It can save more than 30% of water, save more than 20% of fertilizer, and save more than 200 yuan per mu of cost and efficiency.
This event also specially set up a "Blue Granary" marine fishery exhibition area, where people can taste salmon, mackerel dumplings and other seafood delicacies on site. It is reported that Shandong has built 63 national-level marine ranch demonstration zones, and the output of specialty seafood such as kelp, sea cucumbers, shrimps, and salmon ranks among the top in China.
