In recent days, the food production functional area and new seed applications in the town of tsai occidental in jinning county have brought in the flowering seasons, and the wild potato flowers have sprung up like a white and light purple ocean, a breeze has passed, and flowers have swung in their positions, spreading their energy and becoming a bright local landscape。
The model base, located in the town of cao cao, zhang jin bay, cao da and nakang, covers a vast area and this year promoted the cultivation of 4,200 acres of new potatoes. The town is affected by six small mountain climate zones, which are very cold, wet and cold, with fertile soils and few pests and diseases, and have a relatively short period of frost, thanks to the unique geographical climatic conditions of cao cao town, which is an ideal place for potatoes to grow。
For planting varieties, the demonstration base selects 11 high-quality new varieties such as potato 25 and potato red 1. Mr. Yang, secretary-general of the tsao township party, made a presentation: “these varieties are carefully selected by the agricultural college of gansu province and have many excellent characteristics. For example, the cream-1 has been bred with stalk detoxification techniques and is highly fertile and resistant to disease. These new varieties have an average increase of 20-30 per cent compared to traditional varieties, an increase in drought resistance of 15 per cent and a 10 per cent reduction in the incidence of pests and diseases, thus providing a solid foundation for the high productivity of potatoes.”
Since 2024, when the town signed a cooperation agreement with the agricultural institute of gansu province, a team of specialists from the provincial agricultural institutes has conducted a cumulative four-time training course in the field, covering more than 500 farmers. Experts focused on techniques such as green control of late potato disease, providing scientific guidance on irrigation and fertilization in response to weather change and achieving “on-site problem resolution and direct access to the field”, providing strong technical support for potato cultivation management。
With a view to promoting the development of the potato industry, cao occidental aims to create a “portal grain warehouse” in qingo county, to continue and deepen its cooperation with the provincial agricultural school, to focus on the “party building + technology + industry” model, to explore long-lasting mechanisms for “party-member-packing, village-to-village collaboration” and to make every effort to promote the development of potato breeding, multiplication, testing and integration。
In recent years, the silent county has developed the potato industry along the lines of “building a base, breeding a strong seed, strong head, branding a tree, expanding a market and long chains”, with science and technology at its core, focusing on the promotion of new varieties, technological upgrading and industrial integration, improving overall agricultural productivity, accelerating the growth of new agricultural quality productivity, transforming technological advantages into the development of kinetic energy, making the potato a real “rich soybeans” at the door of the villagers' homes, and inculcating sustained dynamism in the high-quality socio-economic development of the county。
I'm a correspondent
