"Today, more than 80 people returned to the village and are registering one after another."
At noon on the 8th, Ding Wenfu, Secretary of the Party branch of xinglongchuan village, Xiyang Town, Yongji County, Jilin City, Jilin Province, who had just organized the villagers to finish the 18th round of nucleic acid, hurried to the entrance of the village to welcome a new batch of spring ploughing returnees.
"The east wind blows the green grass, and cuckoo persuades spring ploughing." How to protect spring ploughing under the epidemic is the top priority for Ding Wenfu and the whole village.
"point to point" return home and "two points and one line" spring farming in the field
Since the new round of covid-19 outbreak in March, the situation of epidemic prevention and control in Jilin City, Changchun City and other places in Jilin Province has been more severe.
As an important granary in China, the area of spring sowing grain in Northeast China accounts for half of the country. It can be said that if we do a good job in spring sowing production in Northeast China, we will grasp the initiative of the national spring sowing work, which has a vital impact on China's grain production this year.
"For those who want to return home, we have established an account to ensure that the bottom number is clear and the situation is clear." Ding Wenfu told China news finance and Economics on the 8th that although xinglongchuan village is still under control, the preparation of farmland is being carried out in an orderly manner.
In order to help the villagers return home smoothly for spring farming, xinglongchuan village carefully conveys and interprets the latest return policy to all returning personnel, actively contacts and guides the villagers to apply for return as soon as possible on the premise of meeting the requirements of epidemic prevention, so as to buy time for preparing for farming and do not miss the agricultural time.
"Since April 5, many migrant farmers have returned to the village one after another. Today, more than 80 people have returned to the village and are registering one after another." Ding Wenfu said.
"The application submitted to the community on April 7 will return home on April 8!" Tian Libo, a villager who returned home by car, studied in Yongji County because of her children. She worked in the county all year round and only returned to the village in the sowing and harvest season.
Tian Libo told Zhongxin finance and economics that her family has about 10 mu of land. All the corn planted is commercial grain, and the annual output is about 25000 kg. "I came back in mid April and ploughed in spring. I didn't leave until mid May."
In order to ensure spring farming, Jilin Province recently issued the "work plan for farmers staying in Changji and Jilin cities to return home for spring farming", which makes detailed provisions on return conditions, application procedures, personnel transfer and control after return. We are speeding up the issuance of permits for stranded farmers in the two cities of Jilin and Changchun.
On April 8 and April 9, Jilin city carried out centralized transfer of beichungeng farmers stranded in Jilin City and beichungeng returnees from Changchun City and other seven cities and prefectures in two batches, which solved the return demands of some farmers.
According to the specific implementation plan of returning stranded farmers to their hometown for spring ploughing notified by Changchun and Jilin, those returning by self driving can pass by virtue of the permit for returning spring ploughers; For centralized transfer personnel, organize vehicles to the designated centralized transfer point in batches to pick up the returning personnel point-to-point.
Ding Wenfu said that nowadays, farmers generally choose to work nearby when they go out to work, so there is no great difficulty in returning home. "The village helped coordinate with the local community and other relevant departments to apply for the pass. After I arrived at the card point with the pass, the village cadres picked me up and let me pass through the card. I didn't get off the bus in the whole process and got home point-to-point, so as to ensure a timely and safe return to my hometown for farming."
According to the regulations of xinglongchuan village, farmers returning home from Yongji County can directly invest in spring farming, but they should strictly abide by the "two points and one line" action in the field at home and should not go out to participate in gathering activities without authorization; For farmers returning from Changchun and other areas, they need to be isolated at home for 7 days, and nucleic acid testing shall be carried out on the 2nd, 4th and 7th days respectively. They can participate in spring farming only after all the test results are negative.
Another good news for Ding Wenfu is that, at present, after more than a month of hard fighting, the epidemic situation in Jilin City and Jiutai District of Changchun City has been cleared, and 42 regions in Changchun have been successively adjusted to low-risk areas.
agricultural materials online purchase, point-to-point delivery without contact
The problem of spring ploughing personnel has been alleviated. How to ensure the necessary agricultural materials such as seeds and chemical fertilizers?
In Liaoning Province, an agricultural related person in Huanren Manchu Autonomous County, Benxi City told Zhongxin finance and economics that although the logistics channels are not unblocked due to the closure and control of the epidemic, it has little impact on the preparation of agricultural materials.
"In fact, as early as before the Spring Festival, most farmers have begun to prepare agricultural materials for spring farming." The source said that because the prices of agricultural materials such as seeds and chemical fertilizers are cheaper before the Spring Festival, most farmers will choose to prepare in advance. "If you start preparing agricultural materials in these two days, you may be affected."
It is customary to plant corn in the early April to the late may according to the local practice.
Ding Wenfu told Zhongxin finance and economics that online procurement has become the main channel for agricultural materials preparation in xinglongchuan village. "The village actively provides farmers with the contact information of agricultural materials stores with good reputation, and encourages farmers to purchase seeds, chemical fertilizers and other materials online through wechat, telephone and other means. For the elderly and other people who can't operate, the village will understand the people's ideas and help them purchase on behalf of them."
"This year, the price of seeds has risen a little and not too much. The rise of chemical fertilizer, diesel oil and agricultural film is large, mainly due to the rise of raw materials." Ding Wenfu told China news finance that the price of chemical fertilizer rose by more than 40% compared with the same period last year.
After the arrival of the purchased agricultural materials, xinglongchuan village adopts the contactless method of point-to-point delivery to the epidemic prevention and control card point in the village. The card point duty personnel notify the farmers one by one and go to get them back at the wrong time to avoid personnel gathering. For special groups such as the elderly and disabled households, the village arranges to send them to the farmers' homes.
"Up to now, the household rate of rice seeds in xinglongchuan village has reached 100%, the household rate of corn seeds has reached 93.7%, and the household rate of chemical fertilizer has reached 77.8%." Ding Wenfu said, "in recent days, farmers have successively built greenhouses. At present, they are soaking rice seeds. It is expected to start sowing and seedling raising in the shed around April 11; the sowing date of corn and soybean is in the middle and late April, that is to say, the dry field will be ready to plough in another seven or eight days."
why does spring ploughing attract more attention than in previous years
"This year, grain production is facing the coexistence of natural risks and market risks." Tan Zhixin, an associate researcher of the rural economic research center of the Ministry of agriculture and rural areas, said in an interview that due to the impact of the epidemic and international market fluctuations, there is great pressure on China's grain supply and price stability.
"In March, the FAO grain price index rose 17.1% month on month." The food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations reported on the 8th that the conflict between Russia and Ukraine led to a sharp rise in world food commodity prices in March, reaching an all-time high.
In the past three years, Russia and Ukraine together accounted for about 30% of global wheat exports and 20% of corn exports. The conflict between Russia and Ukraine has seriously exacerbated global food insecurity. The world food programme has even warned that 2022 will be a disastrous year of hunger, with 44 million people in 38 countries hovering on the edge of famine.
In order to avoid the "food crisis", some countries such as Japan are buying food from the international market, while some countries are taking measures to give priority to ensuring China's Shenzhen Agricultural Products Group Co.Ltd(000061) supply and do not hesitate to control grain exports to ensure China's food security.
"No matter how the international situation changes, we have the ability to ensure that the 1.4 billion Chinese people eat at point every day without hunger, and that their jobs can be more and more stable and eat better and better." Tang Renjian, Minister of agriculture and rural areas, said this at the national two sessions this year.
On March 25, the Ministry of agriculture and rural areas and the Ministry of finance made clear the key work of grain production and a package of support policies in 2022: a one-time subsidy was granted to farmers who actually grow grain to alleviate the impact of the increase in grain expenditure caused by the rise in the price of agricultural materials; Implement subsidies for corn and soybean producers and rice subsidies, and appropriately raise the minimum purchase price of rice and wheat; Implement belt planting subsidies for corn and soybean, support the compatible development of soybean and corn, and so on.
On March 28, the national development and Reform Commission and other more than ten departments jointly issued a notice calling for strengthening China's fertilizer production and supply capacity, improving the guarantee level of fertilizer and its production raw material transportation capacity, ensuring the stable operation of fertilizer supply and market, supporting agricultural production in spring and consolidating the foundation for a bumper harvest of summer grain.
In Ding Wenfu's view, grain prices have been basically flat in the past two years. Compared with previous years, the sowing date of this year has not been delayed at all. It is expected that the grain harvest will not be affected and the grain output will not be greatly affected.
