In the north-west of spring day, the villagers sprung through the fields with a new potato grower, sowing seeds, fertilizer, risers, retinas and piercings. The silver-white membranes are spread along the surfaces and bright under the sun. This is an impressive view of the spring tillage of the village of takata, haiwon county, ningxia。
From labour to full-scale machinery, high-quality production is received from a wide variety of species, and a round potato is no longer a mere crop, but a growing “gold egg” for farmers. All of this has benefited from the results of agricultural science and technology in the dry mountain regions — the soybeans “four ones” and the rain harvesting techniques。
More than 15 per cent of the cost of planting and a 30 per cent increase in water conservation and productivity have been achieved. This technique, developed by chen jiayun's team, a joint professor at the ningxia university school of life sciences, has made small potatoes the brightest rural renewal card in takata village。
Ten years to solve the problem
In the mountains of ningxia, the village of takata, where there is low precipitation, high evaporation and low soil moisture utilization, combined with a single variety of pests and pests and poor cultivation patterns, the local potato industry, which is a local pillar, has been mired in a long-term “food-in-the-scenes and production instability”, which constrains villagers' growth and industrial development。
In order to break the development shackles in takata village, ningxia science and technology has been stationed in village teams since 2014 to take root in the fields, to make full use of their scientific and technological resources and to work with chen jiayun's team to alleviate the suffering of the population. With the full support of the science and technology department of the city of sino-uiwa city and the science and technology directorate of haiwon county, the village task force focused on the pains and difficulties of developing the local potato industry, opening up a scientific campaign for more than 10 years and establishing a deep friendship with the land。
The scientific team, fearing the cold and cold, has been conducting experiments and optimising programmes over and over again. After constant exploration, the team succeeded in developing techniques for the development, sowing, rebranding, fertilization and mechanization of the “four-part” and mechanization of the mechanization of the film, which resulted in the mechanization of key links in potato cultivation and radically altered the inefficient pattern of traditional artificial cultivation。
On this basis, the team has also targeted rain technologies for the sodium potatoes in the dry areas, transforming the traditional flat surfaces into diaphragms. “this clever design, both to transform the previously lost and ineffective rainfall into an effective rainfall accumulation in the membrane, and to allow dispersed rainfall to accumulate into heavy rainfall, increasing soil moisture content at the root and providing water security for potato growth and development.” according to yang peng fei, first secretary of the task force of the science and technology department of ningxia in guanzhou, haiwon county。
“since then, the drought-fed areas have been growing potatoes without `seeing the sky'.” according to chen, “the technology of dry potato `four-person' and acoustic harvesting of rain has achieved `fish and bear palm', which can significantly reduce the cycle of cultivation of potatoes and improve the homogeneity and standardity of cultivation and contribute significantly to the balanced and efficient development of industrial science. After many years of effort, we actually let the results of technology go into ordinary people's homes."
Fields show new ways
The transformation of scientific results has never been easy. A new technology moves from laboratory to field, and the hardest to cross is often the village's “accreditation gate”。
At the beginning of the roll-out of the soybeans' “four ones” and the soy-faced rain collection techniques, many villagers were saying, “when the old generation grew potatoes, a machine could grow?” “what if it didn't work?” in the face of the concerns of the villagers, the ningxia science and technology office's village team and chen jiayun's team did not speak much, but rather provided answers with practical action。
In the spring of 2019, the village team, together with the chen jiayun team, opened 300 acres of technical demonstration fields in the village, organizing village representatives to observe and study. Villagers are encouraged by the standardized and efficient operational landscape. They saw the power of the new technologies and the doubts of the villagers were dispelled. In the following year, a large number of growers had taken the initiative to buy supporting plant machinery, and other villagers had begun to grow potatoes with machines, and new technologies had quickly landed in the village of takata。
In order to extend the benefits of this good technology to more farmers, haiwon county has also conducted training in the village of takata by inviting chen jiayun's team to provide on-site lectures and hands-on demonstrations. With the assistance of training, this planting technique was carried out in 2020, from the village of takata to the town of guan, and was subsequently extended to the haiwon district, where it was used as a model technique for dry potato cultivation。
This technology is suited to the arid climate of the haibara, where efficiency gains in water conservation are prominent, which are the core technological underpinnings of drought as an agricultural lift, and the high quality of agricultural development in the more arid drought-affected areas, which sets an example of scientific and technological growth。
Building on this core technology, local planting efficiency has increased over time. Under the traditional cultivation model, two people were able to plant only two acres a day; with new technologies, two people were able to plant 20 acres a day, significantly reducing labour costs and liberating farmers from heavy manual labour。
Increased productivity and confidence
In order to promote the transformation of new technologies, the ningxia science and technology office has been working for a long time. • establishment of an inventory of support, a clear division of responsibilities, strengthening of grass-roots party organizations, strengthening of the village community economy six village-based first secretarys and task forces continued their struggle to advance science, technology and innovation and science and technology services. They promoted techniques such as sub-drive irrigation, intelligent storage, and high-quality seeding of potatoes, established a complete “breeding-plant-storage” industrial chain of potatoes, developed six farming professional cooperatives, trained 10 rural experts and 14 wealthier leaders, and built up the talent for productive development。
With the help of precision assistance from the ningxia science and technology office, haiwon county, which is based on the location of the main potato and niche areas, adheres to the “four waters fours” development principle of “water, land, water and water production” and promotes industrial upgrading as appropriate. Locally combined with the potato growth cycle, the region is fine-tuned to the rainy season and rainfall, and industrial restructuring through the science of “aqueous production” promotes the full-scale flowering of a range of advanced technologies。
From “food by heaven” to “technologies”, from scattered cultivation to scale, the small potatoes, with their technological power, enable growers to taste the fruits of increased production. The village potato grower, li, told the journalists that the village task force recommended the introduction of a large potato variety with high yields, with an average potato acre production of about 2,000 kg for the village as a whole in 2025, with a net income of more than $500 for all types of costs and more than 30% for the same increase。
“the village families are now mechanized and growing on a scale. With new technologies, new equipment, the confidence of people to be rich is stronger, and it will be good to see it again in the harvest season. Wang chae-xia
