"the smile of the forester's harvest is the greatest push i have ever made." over the years, han kong, director of the xinjiang experimental station at the north-west university of agro-forest technology, has been working on average for three months each year on the first line of the production of red-tree new varieties, the exploration of new cultivation models and the promotion of new technologies, despite many difficulties, such as long distances, distance from relatives and difficult conditions. This has spread across the north and south, and has contributed to the healthy development of the xinjiang mangrove industry and to the increase in the income of the xinjiang palm-tree farmers。
Han was just observing the growth of the red dates
New breeds in the dates nest
Xinjiang has become the largest high-quality date production base in china and in the world, thanks to unique natural conditions such as abundant light and heat resources, drought and low rainfall, high day and night temperatures and moderate soil salinization. The red date industry, which accounts for 1/2 of the country's date production, has become one of the leading industries for increasing the harvest of forest farmers in xinjiang。
“what is behind the large production is, however, a single species structure, which cannot be ignored in the production of red dates in xinjiang. As production capacity continues to increase, market supply exceeds demand, prices are already on a downward trend, and there is an urgent need to bring in high-quality date varieties for renewal。
As a red-tree expert, han has been paying attention to identifying good varieties and promoting preferred varieties。
The northwestern university of agroforestry has chosen the "july fresh" as a rare-dry and mixed-use red-tree seed. Its resilience, cold-resistant salin, early flowering, easy-to-results, well-managed and productive production was validated in december 2013 through the original national forestry agency。
“since 2005, we have been piloting the plant in changji, shige, iowa, aksu, kash, and tana in xinjiang. Its growth performance is good, and the quality of date fruit fresh and dried is extremely good, and it is a species with great potential for expansion.” han just said。
Let's get july fresh red in xinjiang
Since 2014, korea has been engaged in the dissemination of science and technology in the xinjiang sector, based on pilot demonstration stations established in xinjiang, such as the north-west university of agroforestry and technology and the changi city people's government. Starting in 2015, korea has just begun to promote a full-scale demonstration in xinjiang。
“in order to make society and growers aware of this species, we have made extensive visits to businesses, date farmers, with their materials and products, and have communicated with the government and the enterprises concerned, signed model extension cooperation agreements, initiated a group of date growers and provided them with specialized technical services. In 2015 alone, a 560-acre `july' high-quality efficient cultivation demonstration park was set up in south korea, promoting `july's fresh 7190-acre."。
Kung fu doesn't have a heart. Xinjiang built a “july fresh” demonstration park with an average acre production of more than 150 kg of dry dates and an average of more than 100 kg of dry dates. Based on multiple sample surveys, which were screened to clean dry high-quality dates the maximum sale price is up to $80 per kilogram, while the currency taken directly from the date-palm is sold essentially at a price of more than $10 per kilogram, with a minimum of $1,000 per acre。
“the sum of $1,000 is the combined benefit per acre of the year when the date is grown by xinjiang's main breeds and the date is almost without any income. According to the `july fresh' results, the second year of dry dates is over 300 kg, the third year is over 600 kg, and the third year is over 800 kg。
Over the years, the expansion of “july new” has been accelerating through the sustained efforts of han kong. By 2020, the “new july” cumulatively promoted 721 million acres in xinjiang, with basic radiation all-border date-palms, to become the third-largest main date-planting species in xinjiang, with a combined benefit of more than rmb 210 million, which has contributed to the further optimization of the structure of the local red date variety。
Let's start a crop revolution
In the context of the promotion of new varieties, the traditional pyrotechnic cultivation model for the south frontier dates region is characterized by management difficulties, high levels of labour input, difficulties in increasing yields, frequent pests and pests and poor quality of dates. This model, which involves separation and separation of strains, adjustment of distance and distance, reduction of planting density, greater ventilation, increased utilization of single-plant nutrients and most mechanization, not only facilitates management and reduces inputs, but also reduces the risk of major pests and diseases and improves the quality of dates。
“the new model represents an average of 18. 22 per cent and an average efficiency gain of 93. 95 per cent compared to the traditional intensive cultivation model. At the same time, on the basis of this model, we have proposed key planting techniques such as tree-painted grass, tree optimization, date-grass efficiency, increased organic fertilisation in the soil, wired fungi restoration, integrated pest management, etc., which have once again reduced the use of artificial inputs and fertilizer pesticides, and made date-planting suitable for mechanization, fundamentally improving the soil and further achieving the goal of ablution efficiency。
With the co-sponsorship of new varieties, new models and applications of key new technologies, korea has just promoted the application of the wide-spreading model of dates and its key techniques to 640,000 acres of dates in xinjiang, with a combined benefit of more than rmb 270 million, leading to the upgrading of local date cultivation techniques。
In 2019, the “july fresh” seed and date-breeding model and its key technologies were used as an important element in xinjiang's science and technology promotion efforts as a result of the “key technology and integration demonstration for the quality of the north-west dry zone”, and received the second prize from the national forestry and grassland administration and the liangxi forestry science and technology prize of the chinese forestry society. In 2021, such group criteria as “treasure of dates” and “technology for fresh date cultivation in july” and “quality of fresh date fruit in july” were published by the xinjiang society。
“in early 2018, we led the establishment of the `july fresh' red-tree alliance, which, together with more than 20 dates-related business owners from within and outside the country, promoted the formation of a `july fresh' red-tree, supply, sell and add-to-business chain platform to enhance outreach and stimulate the potential of small-trees.”。
Over the years, in the field of first-line science and technology promotion, korea has just carried out more than 150 technical training sessions in various forms, including conference training, observation and on-site guidance, training agricultural technicians and professional farmers in over 3,000 cases, and providing long-term guidance to enterprises, cooperatives, family farms and growers in over 30 cases. (yan far away)
