CCTV News: "Three Summers" is a critical period for grain production throughout the year, and it is crucial to achieve the annual grain production target. The reporter learned from the Ministry of Water Resources that as of mid-May, the national average precipitation this year was nearly 20% less than that in the same period last year, and the water inlet of major rivers was nearly 30% less than that in the same period last year. The Ministry of Water Resources scientifically dispatches water projects and makes every effort to ensure water for grain production and irrigation. At present, the national spring irrigation area has reached 360 million mu.

Jixi, Heilongjiang: Application of intelligent and good opportunities to empower rice transplanting

In early summer, in the vast farmland of Jixi, Heilongjiang, the use of advanced agricultural machinery and equipment such as electric rail transport trucks, unmanned transplanting machines, auxiliary direct navigation systems, etc., makes rice transplanting operations time-saving and labor-saving, and a more accurate and efficient agricultural production method lay a solid foundation for a bumper grain harvest.

At the rice transplanting site of Qingfeng Farm in Beidahuang in Jixi City, the "Seedling Transportation Train" is driving in the fields. The application of this equipment has relieved the trouble of time-consuming and labor-intensive handling for growers with larger areas.

After the end of the rice transplanting season, these "small trains" can continue to be used as field transport tools for fertilizers and agricultural machinery. At present, Qingfeng Farm has promoted electric rail seedling transportation systems in 50,000 mu of rice fields, and has also upgraded more than 600 sets of wide and narrow row transplanters, intelligent inspection drones and other equipment to promote new technologies to empower agricultural production.

In Xingkaihu Farm in Beidahuang, unmanned rice transplanters equipped with satellite navigation assistance systems have been widely used. Farmers only need to set parameters such as transplanting depth and plant distance on the operating table, and the rice transplanters can automatically move forward according to the preset route and operate accurately. Some plots of the farm were renovated and upgraded last fall, and merged the small ge fields into large ge fields, which not only increased the effective arable land area, but also gave advanced intelligent agricultural machinery more room to display.

Yan'an, Shaanxi: Technology helps intelligent rice planting in Nanniwan

Earing summer, Nanniwan, located on the Loess Plateau and one of the birthplaces of the large-scale production movement, ushered in the rice transplanting season. The unmanned rice transplanter equipped with Beidou navigation system drove into Nanniwan for the first time, marking this fertile land entering a new era of intelligent rice planting.

Compared with traditional rice transplanters, unmanned equipment not only realizes "centimeter-level" plant spacing control, but also reduces the rice transplanting work that originally required 4 to 5 people to cooperate to complete to 1 person. At the same time, during the Nanniwan rice planting process this year, drone fertilization and other operations were also implemented to improve planting efficiency in all aspects.

In recent years, Nanniwan has cooperated with Beidahuang Group to continuously introduce experimental rice varieties, increasing the rice yield in saline-alkali land from 700 jin per mu to about 1,000 jin. At the same time, thousands of acres of rice fields have become a way for local tourism to increase income, and have received a total of 1.2 million tourists.

Sichuan: 870,000 mu of wheat are successively harvested by sickles.

At present, more than 9.3 million mu of winter wheat in Sichuan Province are gradually ripe. Various places have taken multiple measures to seize the farming season and harvest sickles to ensure that the pellets are returned to the warehouse.

Walking into Huilong Village, Fuxi Town, Shehong City, Suining, Sichuan Province, looking around, the golden wheat ears were undulating like waves, and harvesters lined up in the farmland. With the assistance of smart agricultural machinery, farmers can complete wheat harvesting, stubble extermination, threshing and other work at one time, and the work efficiency of summer harvest is increased by 40%. Thanks to the order agriculture model, farmers have signed a stable acquisition agreement with local enterprises. After the harvested wheat can be delivered to the order enterprise as soon as possible to complete the sales.

According to reports, Suining City is a typical mountainous shallow hill area. In recent years, through high-standard farmland renovation projects, the farmland plots have been small and large and steeply flattened, further improving the access and operating conditions of agricultural machinery and solving the "last mile" problem of agricultural machinery equipment entering the ground in hilly and mountainous areas. This year, the wheat sowing area in Suining City exceeded 870,000 mu, an increase of 24,000 mu over last year, and the comprehensive mechanization rate of farming and harvesting reached 94%. At present, the city's wheat harvest is more than 70%, and all wheat harvesting is expected to be completed by late May.