The reporter recently learned from the Department of agriculture and rural areas of the Tibet Autonomous Region that by the end of 2021, the comprehensive mechanization rate of crop cultivation and harvest in Tibet had reached 66.1%, and the contribution of science and technology to agricultural production had been significantly enhanced.
Once upon a time, Tibet's agricultural production depended entirely on human and animal resources, and the production efficiency was low. With the development of science and technology and the change of labor concept of Tibetan farmers, in recent decades, mechanization has been accelerated in various fields of agricultural production in Tibet. Agricultural production has basically realized the transformation from relying on human and animal power to mechanical power, and entered a new stage dominated by mechanization.
"In the past, the autumn harvest of cultivated land depended on yaks, which was not only time-consuming, but also very tired." Said NIMA, a villager of Tangjia Township, Mozhugongka County, Lhasa City, Tibet. In order to reduce the labor burden, since 2008, he has cultivated land with walking tractors and reaped autumn crops with harvesters. "Now, it only takes more than ten days to plough and harvest together."
Du Jie, director of the Department of agriculture and rural affairs of the Tibet Autonomous Region, said that in the next step, Tibet will accelerate the deep integration of technology promotion and informatization, automation and intelligence, use information technology and scientific and technological means to guide work, comprehensively improve the ability of agricultural machinery technology promotion, innovation, transformation, support and service, and improve the level of mechanization.
