This is an ordinary farmhouse courtyard in Baizhai Town, Quzhou, Handan, but the residents in several farmhouses are a little special, they are master's students at China Agricultural University, and here is the location of the country's first science and technology courtyard - Baizhai Science and Technology Courtyard.
On the morning of October 18, six graduate students from China Agricultural University started their day's work and life as usual. This is the 257th day of their stay in the courtyard.
1) At 6:30 a.m., the silence of the science and technology courtyard was broken by a loud sweeping sound. Hou Yulin, a student on health duty today, is a 2022 master's student in resource utilization and plant protection at China Agricultural University. More than 100 students enrolled in this major every year will be stationed in the science and technology academies of China Agricultural University distributed throughout the country for two years.
Hou Yulin sprinkled fertilizer in the experimental field.
This morning, Hou Yulin needs to prepare 400 kilograms of fertilizer, and in the afternoon, he will go to the demonstration field to apply fertilizer. Hou Yulin's research focuses on nutrient resource management, focusing on the impact of organic fertilizers on crop yields. The experiment of corn fertilization and soil tillage has just been completed, and the related experiment of replacing phosphate fertilizer with organic fertilizer has begun again.
The fertilizer ratio is calculated according to the soil nutrients and plant needs, and then the four fertilizers are prepared separately. Hou Yulin said that local farmers do not have any concept of soil fertility, and what he wants to do is to make farmers pay attention to the soil fundamentally, improve the soil, and break through the yield bottleneck by increasing soil fertility.
At 12:00 p.m., 9 bags of fertilizer for more than two acres of land were finally allocated, and Hou Yulin was so tired that he couldn't straighten his waist. After having lunch at the town ** canteen not far away, he went back to the dormitory for a brief rest, he used an electric tricycle to pull on fertilizer, and rushed to the wheat field at the head of the village at 1:30 p.m. At this time, several agricultural machines are preparing to plough the ground.
Lv Zhihai, the person in charge of the Zhiyu Agricultural Machinery Service Professional Cooperative in Quzhou County, is a demonstration household of China Agricultural University, and the 150 acres of land he contracted have become a scientific research demonstration field of the Quzhou Experimental Station of China Agricultural University. For Hou Yulin, Lu Zhihai was full of praise: "Have real skills!."Teach me how to use fertilizer and how to water, my land can earn hundreds of yuan more per mu than other people's land, and I am grateful to the Science and Technology Courtyard in my heart. ”
Holding a washbasin in one hand and skillfully fertilizing the marked ditch with the other, Hou Yulin is like an "old trick" when he does his work. "When we first started to promote the integrated technology of water and fertilizer, some farmers did not accept it, but we established experimental fields through hard work, and saw that the income per mu could increase by at least 300 yuan, and more and more farmers came to us for consultation and even helped us to do the promotion. Hou Yulin said that Lu Zhihai is now one of his loyal fans.
2) At 9:00 a.m., Li Hui, a girl with a ponytail, walked out of her room, the day before she was busy until the early hours of the morning because of the materials she had prepared for party activists. She hurriedly ran to the bathroom to wash her face, and without bothering to wipe it, she skillfully rode an electric tricycle to the experimental field. Her research is on "Construction and Application of Soil Constraint Reduction Technology for Green Food Production by Smallholder Farmers".
Daimai 728, Jinzuan 9, Zhongmai 578, Jimai 765, Malan 1, Malan 6, and Jimai 38, Li Hui will guide the sowing of these seven varieties of wheat today, in order to compare the growth and yield of different varieties of winter wheat under the same conditions. With the roar of the seeder, the sowing task was finally completed at 16:00. From sowing to harvesting, managing the demonstration field throughout the whole process is one of the daily tasks of the teachers and students of the Science and Technology Academy.
Li Hui (left) discusses the experimental field with villagers.
In the eyes of the locals, Li Hui is an "expert" from Beijing, and she is willing to ask her for advice when she encounters problems. And Li Hui admitted frankly that when she walked out of school and came to Quzhou in February this year, she couldn't even tell the difference between wheat seedlings and leeks.
After more than 8 months of training, Li Hui, who grew up in the city, Xi accustomed to the life of a "cropper". "When I first came, it was cold, and I had to go to the town a few hundred meters away to take a bath and go to the toilet to catch up with the decoration of the small courtyard. Li Hui said that before she came to the Science and Technology Academy, she had already done a good job of psychological construction and was fully prepared to suffer by herself. "I'm an idealistic person, and since someone has to do this, then just count me in. In the past, the conditions were more difficult when the senior brothers and sisters studied Xi here. Li Hui said that since he has chosen here, he must do a good job.
Not long ago, Li Hui went to Qingdao to participate in the second Science and Technology Academy Competition and won the first prize of the Shandong District Competition. "Every day I was either in the courtyard or in the field, and I felt a little dazzled when I went to Qingdao at first glance, so I had a hot pot and made a free manicure. She said that these occasional "little blessings" add a lot to the monotony of life, where they have long learned to make fun of suffering.
According to Zhang Hongyan, deputy director of the Quzhou Experimental Station of China Agricultural University, China Agricultural University and Quzhou County have cooperated to build 15 science and technology courtyards such as Baizhai, Wangzhuang and Qianya. There are 3 to 6 graduate students from China Agricultural University stationed in each science and technology institute, and 2 teachers in charge of agricultural production and scientific research come to guide them regularly, and they usually work at the Quzhou Experimental Station of China Agricultural University, which is not far from the courtyard. Teachers and students live and work together with farmers, in line with the principle of zero distance, zero threshold, zero time difference and zero cost, carry out technical training and services, help farmers learn Xi high-yield and efficient production technology, and solve the difficulties encountered by farmers in the application of technology. Over the past 10 years, more than 80,000 farmers have participated in the training, and more than 10,000 farmers have become "soil experts" and "leaders of science and technology" who understand technology and have the ability to become rich. The Science and Technology Institute has also developed, introduced and popularized 25 technologies such as soil testing and formula fertilization, wheat and corn precision sowing, etc., which have increased the annual output of more than 400,000 mu of wheat and corn in Quzhou by 20 million kilograms and increased farmers' income by more than 40 million yuan.
Wu Yumiao is sorting out the data.
3) Wu Yumiao and Song Anqi, who study laying hen breeding, stayed in the courtyard all day today. Their current main job is to collate and analyze experimental data.
Our experimental project, which has just ended, is working with a local Beinong Big Layer Farm to test the effect on egg production by adding plant reagents to chicken feed. Wu Yumiao said that the research reagents of the two of them were ursolic acid and marigold flavonoids, and each was responsible for 300 chickens.
For the past four months, the two have been going to the chicken coop every morning and afternoon, without stopping. Every morning, the two first rushed to the chicken coop to feed the 48 cages of chickens they were responsible for, observed the feed intake of each cage of chickens, and then manually picked up the eggs, weighed, counted the number of eggs, and checked whether there were dirty eggs, broken eggs, and soft eggs. At noon, I returned to the small yard to rest for a while, and in the afternoon I rushed to the chicken coop to do the same work.
The experiment did not go well, and the tricycle broke down in the middle ......They always have problems. From the confusion at the beginning to the handy hand in the future, Wu Yumiao, a "post-00s", used the word upgrade to fight monsters.
After coming to the science and technology courtyard, in addition to riding an electric tricycle, Wu Yumiao also unlocked a lot of new skills, from "ten fingers do not touch the spring water" to be proficient in laundry and cooking, her changes surprised the parents who came to visit. As the director of the Baizhai Science and Technology Academy, in addition to being responsible for her own experiments and scientific and technological training for farmers, Wu Yumiao is also responsible for the daily scheduling and daily coordination of the courtyard.
Angel Song picks up eggs in the chicken coop.
For Song Anqi, the calluses in her palms are a special mark left by her work over the past four months. "We need to prepare feed once a week, and we transport 50 or 60 pounds of feed from the mixing yard to the chicken coop, and we do it ourselves. In the past few months, thanks to Wu Yumiao's companionship, everyone has encouraged each other, otherwise they may not be able to persevere. "Angel Song feels amazing.
Another advantage of studying Xi life here is to save money, because it is not easy to spend money when you have it. Song Anqi said with a smile that her living expenses in the science and technology courtyard were only a quarter of when she was in school. In her free time, she consults literature and reads her favorite books, which makes her "quiet".
At 18:30, it was getting dark, and Hou Yulin and Li Hui had returned to the courtyard from the field. Several young people returned to their respective dormitories after a busy day, the ordinary day in the small courtyard is coming to an end, and the story of the science and technology courtyard will continue tomorrow.
*: Hebei Provincial Party Committee "Communist Party Member" magazine in October.