More than half of the country’s autumn grain harvest has been harvested, with multiple factors working together to lay a solid foundation for a bumper harvest

Report from our newspaper, Beijing, October 10 (Reporters Zhu Jun and Yu Jingxian) It is the critical season of agricultural production in the "Three Autumn Periods". In Beilin District, Suihua City, Heilongjiang Province, rice is beginning to bloom. "This year I planted Suijing 306 and harvested it before the frost." Ni Jicheng, a major grain grower in Xiangyang Village, Shuanghe Town, planted 600 acres of rice, using techniques such as greenhouse seedlings and dense planting for intensive farming. The yield per mu reached 570 kilograms.

Autumn harvest across the country has reached its peak, and autumn and winter planting have begun. According to the latest agricultural dispatch from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, as of October 10, the national autumn grain harvest has exceeded 50%. Among them, 75% have been harvested in the southwest, 50% in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, 60% in the Huanghuaihai Sea, 55% in the northwest, and 35% in the northeast. Winter wheat has been sown one after another, and more than 10% of winter rapeseed has been sown. The autumn harvest and autumn planting are progressing smoothly.

In recent years, increasing yield per unit area has become the main driving force for increasing grain production. The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs continues to implement the action to improve large-area yields of grain and oil crops, expanding the number of counties promoting the integrated system to 1,000, and adding 20 new cities promoting the integrated system. Judging from the autumn grain production situation, various regions have accelerated the promotion and application of leading varieties, main technologies, and main machine models to promote a balanced increase in crop production over a large area.

Corn is an important yield-increasing crop. In Huantai County, Shandong Province, high-yielding, density-tolerant varieties such as Denghai 618 and Nongda 372 are widely planted. The average planting density of corn per mu reached 5116.8 plants, an increase of 14.3 plants from the previous year. As a county promoting the improvement of corn yield, Junxian County in Henan has laid out and created 8 100-acre research fields, 10 1,000-acre demonstration fields and 2 10,000-acre high-yield fields. It has implemented key technical measures such as dense planting drip irrigation, divided top dressing, and one spray and multiple boosts, which has radiated the county's corn yield improvement demonstration area to 500,000 acres.

A new batch of advanced and applicable agricultural machinery products were put into production. In Gansu, Chongqing, Sichuan and other places, tractors drive into sloping farmland and terraced fields in hilly and mountainous areas. In Changji, Xinjiang, a 410-horsepower domestic hybrid tractor gallops through the fields and efficiently carries out autumn plowing and deep plowing operations, reducing fuel consumption by about 20% compared with traditional fuel-powered engines for comprehensive operations.

Agricultural production in the "Three Autumn Periods" is advancing. The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs has dispatched six working groups and scientific and technological teams to 12 key provinces for autumn harvest and autumn planting to conduct research and guidance on autumn grain harvest, wheat and rapeseed sowing, autumn field management, and guidance on the implementation of key measures such as fine soil preparation and pre-winter field management.