“This year, affected by many factors, the prices of agricultural materials such as chemical fertilizer have increased significantly. However, by improving the level of mechanized operation and introducing high-quality hybrid fragrant rice varieties, we have reduced the costs of seedling raising, farming and fertilization, increased output and benefits, and improved the villagers’ enthusiasm for spring farming production. The rice planting area has increased by 300 mu compared with last year to about 2000 mu.” Zheng Chenggong, chairman of Binyang Lianfeng agricultural machinery service farmers’ Professional Cooperative in Nanning, Guangxi, told reporters on the 20th.
Binyang County is a major agricultural county and one of the main grain producing areas in Guangxi. It is known as the “national commodity grain base county” and the national “high-quality grain project” action demonstration county. Over the past five years, the grain sowing area has been stable at more than 1.08 million mu, and the annual output has reached more than 353000 tons. In recent days, the reporter of chinanews.com has visited and learned about the local spring tillage preparation.
In the paddy field circulated by Zheng Chenggong’s cooperative, the machines roared. The tractor team composed of five ploughing machines operated orderly at the same time, and soon leveled the wasteland. Then, the rice transplanting team drove the rice transplanter to plant the seedlings into the field, which was a scene of busy operation.
Zheng Chenggong said that in recent years, the state has increased incentives and support for major grain producing areas and food and agriculture, and introduced a series of preferential agricultural subsidy policies, which have benefited large grain farmers and greatly improved their enthusiasm for growing grain. In the spring of this year, the rice cooperative has adopted modern mechanized operation on 2000 mu of farmland, and is expected to complete all machine insertion tasks within a week.
However, compared with last year, due to the rise of international commodity prices and other factors, the price of chemical fertilizer this year has increased from about 2500 yuan per ton to more than 4000 yuan. Li zongnan, manager of Wangke fertilizer business department in Binyang County, told reporters that in order to cope with the peak demand for fertilizer and slow down the adverse impact of price rise, enterprises raised funds in various ways and reserved a number of sources of goods. The sales volume of chemical fertilizer is about 300 tons per day.
Zhang Yingji, head of Binyang Kaida Agricultural Machinery Co., Ltd., also said that in the face of the adverse impact of factors such as the rise in the price of chemical fertilizer, in order to reduce production costs, local farmers’ enthusiasm for purchasing agricultural machinery has gradually increased, and mechanical products such as rice transplanter, small walking tractor and forklift have been favored.
Today, large agricultural households in Binyang County are also gradually extending the industrial chain from simple rice planting to seedling raising, processing, sales and other links to deal with market changes.
Fang YONGYING, assistant director of Binyang agricultural and rural Bureau, introduced that Binyang County promoted large-scale planting, standardized production, industrialized management and brand sales of high-quality rice. At the same time, it increased support for large-scale grain planting households to ensure the demand for agricultural materials and irrigation water for grain production in spring.
Zhang Xianqi, President of the Communist Party of China Agricultural Bank Of China Limited(601288) Binyang County sub branch, also said that since the beginning of this year, there has been a strong demand for funds for spring ploughing and preparation in Binyang County. The bank system focuses on large planting households, large agricultural machinery households and rural individual industrial and commercial households, extends the scope of financial supply from agricultural materials and agricultural machinery to agricultural power, and has invested more than 50 million yuan in credit funds.
