CCTV News: Spring is coming and farming is busy. Laibin, Guangxi is one of the main production areas of sugar cane. In 2025, more than 630,000 acres of sugar cane were planted locally. At present, sugarcane farmers are scrambling to catch up on the farming season and stepping up their operations, and the planting work is coming to an end. What is the scene of sugarcane cultivation? What are the new changes in the planting method in 2025? Agricultural machinery helps to greatly improve sugarcane planting efficiency

Now, the local spring sugarcane seeds are coming to an end. In the sugarcane field, large mechanical equipment tables are shuttled back and forth in the sugarcane field. On the planting machine with Beidou Navigation installed, the sugarcane farmers put the sugarcane seedlings into the machine, and the machine automatically completes a series of processes such as seedling planting, covering film, and covering soil. In the past, the traditional artificial planting method could only plant one acre of land a day. Now, using large machinery, one machine and two people can plant more than 20 acres of land a day on average, which greatly improves efficiency. High-standard farmland construction allows industries to improve quality and efficiency

The terrain here is undulating and belongs to hilly terrain. The more than 730 acres of sugarcane land are made up of 200 small pieces of land in contiguous areas. In the past, the land where sugarcane farmers planted sugarcane was small and scattered, large-scale machinery and equipment could not be accessed, and water conservancy facilities and infrastructure could not be matched. It took time and effort to plant sugarcane farmers to plant sugarcane.

In recent years, the local area has implemented a high-yield and high-sugar sugar cane base construction project, integrating the land through "small pieces and large pieces" and transferring it to large growers. The quality improvement and upgrading of farmland construction has also allowed large agricultural machinery to play a role, greatly shortening the planting time and making the sugarcane growth process more unified. Deeply pursuing the improvement of sugarcane varieties, the results of new varieties and seedlings have begun to show

In addition to mechanized planting, the local area also improves the yield and quality of sugarcane by introducing new sugarcane varieties. Now, sugarcane planting also uses detoxified seedlings like potatoes. This detoxified seedling has two buds per plant, so it is also called a double bud sugarcane seedling. One sugarcane can grow 6-8 pieces after planting it. In the past, sugarcane farmers used to cut the sequins by cutting the ripe sugarcane into sections and buried it directly into the ground. There were many seedlings, but the germination rate was not high. Moreover, because the overall sugar content of the roots was not high, the sugarcane grown was not high, and the higher the length, the lower the sweetness.

Detoxification seedlings make up for these shortcomings well. Compared with traditional seed retention, their growth cycle can be about 10 days earlier, their yields are also increased by about 10%, and they are highly resistant to disease. The sugar content of sugar cane grown in detoxified seedlings increases by about 0.5%, and the quality of the squeezed sugar is more guaranteed. Since 2023, the local area has begun to promote this anti-toxic seedling. In order to encourage everyone to try, as long as the sugarcane farmers who plant detoxified seedlings in the first year can get a subsidy of 600 yuan per mu of land.

Laibin City currently has a total area of ​​sugar cane planting about 1.93 million mu, and spring planting is expected to be completed in early April.