Farmland is idle in winter, the water level of the river is low, it is the first period of construction of farmland water conservancy, and the new construction and transformation of high-standard farmland in Jiangxi Province is in full swing.
On January 30, the reporter drove to Nanxin Township, Nanchang County, where Gong Jianqun, a cadre from Shanxia Village, Nanxin Township, was standing at the entrance of the village to listen to the suggestions of large grain growers on high-standard farmland transformation and upgrading projects.
Nanxin Township, Nanchang County, has an area of about 100,000 mu of cultivated land and an annual grain output of nearly 200 million catties, making it one of the important grain producing areas in Nanchang County. In 2024, the county will complete a high-standard farmland construction project170,000 acres, of which 1 is renovated and upgraded50,000 acres, with a total planned investment of 51 million yuan, involving 6 townships, Nanxinxiang is one of them.
Taking advantage of the rain in the past two days, we and a group of several large grain growers inspected the quality and progress of the construction on the spot. Gong Jianqun said that the biggest difference between this high-standard farmland construction and the previous one is that village cadres, large grain growers, and mass representatives are allowed to participate in the supervision of the project. In September last year, as soon as the project was launched, two monitoring teams were formed in the village.
The high-standard farmland renovation and upgrading project has built 4 new wells and increased the drainage ditch by 3 kilometers. Huang Guochun, a villager, said that because the high-standard farmland in Shanxia Village was built 12 years ago, some facilities have been unable to keep up with the development needs of modern agriculture, and the severe drought in 2022 has caused some fields to be affected, and drought and flood protection have become his biggest demand. He happily told reporters that the 30 acres of cultivated land contracted by himself were also included in the construction of the project.
Farmland is upgrading, and farmers' willingness to plant is also increasing.
In the past two days, I am talking about land circulation with Fengzhou Village, preparing to transfer another 1,500 acres, plus the 600 acres planted last year, and the circulation area this year can reach 2,100 acres. As the day of spring ploughing is getting closer and closer, Liu Feng, the "king of agricultural machinery" in Nanxinxiang, is very busy: while speeding up the maintenance of more than 40 agricultural machinery, while negotiating land transfer, and the seedling factory built in May last year has recently been ordered.
High-standard farmland has large plots, easy roads, and convenient water use, which can realize large-scale mechanized operations, and save about 300 yuan per mu. Pinching his fingers, Liu Feng calculated the account for the reporter, "Taking rice transplanting as an example, dozens of acres of fields can be completed in a day with a large rice transplanting machine, which is not only highly efficient, but also only half of the average cost per mu of labor." Last year, the two Liu Feng brothers planted 600 acres of rice, and the whole process of cultivation and management was mechanized, with an average income of nearly 1,000 yuan per mu.
High-standard farmland is becoming an important support for our province to improve its comprehensive grain production capacity. The data show that last year, the average yield of grain crops per mu in the province was 3883 kg, an increase of 8 over the previous year4 kg; The increase in early rice yield ranks first in the country. (Reporter Li Yaowen).