Reporter Shi Rukuan.
Since 2023, Weifang City has vigorously implemented the two-wheel drive of science and technology and reform, plugged in the wings of science and technology for agriculture, and stimulated energy for rural development.
In Weifang, the market share of domestic vegetable varieties has reached 75%, the application rate of the Internet of Things in facility agriculture has reached 80%, the average yield per mu has increased by more than 30%, and the contribution rate of the city's agricultural science and technology progress has reached 69%.
"Seed engine" leads modern agriculture.
On January 6, in the laboratory of Shouguang Vegetable R&D Center of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, the reporter saw many new vegetable varieties, such as the first domestic sweet pepper variety resistant to spot wilt, propanol disic acid thin-skinned cucumber, and bacterial wilt-resistant tomato.
The thin-skinned cucumber with propanol disic acid, named Chinese Vegetable Beauty, was selected and bred by our experts using intelligent molecular design breeding technology. There are two characteristics: one is that the skin is particularly thin, like a membrane, and the taste is particularly delicate. Second, it is rich in propanolic acid, which can prevent the conversion of sugar into fat into the human body, so as to achieve the effect of anti-sugar and fat reduction. Han Liqun, a staff member of the Shouguang Vegetable R&D Center Laboratory of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, said that at present, the gherkins have been promoted in Shouguang City for a total of more than 1,000 acres, with a yield of more than 10,000 kilograms per mu.
Weifang City strives to build a "seed industry engine", and introduces a number of "national brand" innovation platforms such as the Institute of Modern Agriculture of Peking University and the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, which have become the "smart brain" of modern agriculture. Weifang Municipal Finance has set aside 20 million yuan of special funds for seed industry innovation, set up 10 seed industry innovation teams, developed 44 seed industry research and development enterprises, and 153 certified enterprises for crop seed production and operation, and built the largest vegetable germplasm resource bank in the province.
Not only that, Weifang City has also introduced policies such as the "20 Articles" of the New Talent Deal, introduced 2 academicians, built 11 industrial technology research institutes, more than 20 scientific and technological innovation platforms, 36 academician workstations, and cultivated 310,000 rural practical talents.
The blessing of science and technology makes farming wise.
Carrot seeds are small and irregularly shaped, making it difficult to sow directly with machinery.
In the last five or six years, we have explored and formed the sowing technology of seed pelletization and braided rope. Specifically, the carrot seeds are wrapped into regular circles or ovals with a layer of special material, and then the seeds are braided into paper ropes at equal distances according to the planting plant spacing requirements. When sowing, you can sow the paper rope directly into the ground. Shouguang Hualong Town, a well-known carrot planting town in the country, Li Xinghua, the person in charge of Weifang Xinxin Food Co., Ltd., said.
Seed pelletization + rope braiding" technology realizes single-grain sowing, so that the carrot planting plant spacing is equal and the growth is uniform, and the product quality rate is increased by 35%. In the process of land preparation, carrot planting enterprises also use the Beidou system, and the width of each ridge is consistent.
On November 23, 2023, Fan Jinbo, the head of the Fengyuan Grain Planting Professional Cooperative in Zhucheng City, got the good news that the yield of his corn 100 acres of key fields set the highest record in the history of Weifang City, and he was rewarded with a ton of local water-soluble fertilizer.
Science and technology farming is the secret, we have adopted the corn dense planting precision control and high yield technology, drip irrigation water and fertilizer integration technology, dry corn high yield and high efficiency technology, etc., the actual average yield is 113485 kg, the yield per mu is more than a ton. Fan Jinbo said.
Weifang City promotes agricultural modernization, vigorously implements the "Internet + modern agriculture" action, and the five big data modules of "smart farming, smart vegetable planting, smart breeding, smart supervision, and smart agricultural machinery" have taken root. At present, more than 30,000 intelligent greenhouses have been built in the city, and 100 smart farms, 100 smart pastures and 50 smart parks have been developed.
With the blessing of scientific and technological strength, Weifang has shifted from a production area of agricultural products to an output place of technical standards, and its core competitiveness and market discourse power are getting stronger and stronger.
Digital agriculture brand agriculture is gradually becoming mainstream.
In the Shanyang Agricultural, Cultural and Tourism Industry Integration Demonstration Zone in Changyi City, in a high-standard planting greenhouse, the strawberries planted can change their position at any time with the intelligent lifting planting system, which not only saves space and labor, but also increases the planting area per unit space.
In this demonstration area, digital agriculture has become the mainstream, and advanced technologies such as the Dutch automated environmental control system and Israel's precision water and fertilizer irrigation technology have been applied, and the first batch of tomatoes and strawberries have reached 15 yuan kg and strawberries have reached 60 yuan kg, and have entered the domestic first-tier city market.
Far away in the Guopai Agricultural Modern Facility Agricultural Industrial Park in Xinhe County, Aksu Prefecture, Xinjiang, villagers are busy planting watermelon seedlings in 262 solar greenhouses.
Guopai Agriculture is a well-known watermelon breeding and planting enterprise in Weifang, through breakthroughs and innovations, with high-quality small watermelons to achieve annual sales of more than 100 million yuan. In 2020, Guo Pai Agriculture brought more than 150 technicians from Shandong to build a base, build greenhouses, and send technology, copying the Guo Pai hanging vine small watermelon planting model and technology. In 2023, Guopai Agriculture will harvest and sell 2,000 tons of watermelons at its Xinjiang base, with a sales income of more than 5,000 yuan.
Weifang has introduced a brand certification reward and subsidy policy, and the total number of "three products and one standard" agricultural products in the city has reached 1,448, 3 national-level regional public brands, and 6 provincial-level regional public brands. In 2023, there will be 70 newly certified green and organic agricultural product brands, and 33 new famous and excellent new agricultural product brands, ranking first in the province in terms of total volume.