How can agriculture-based regions promote high-quality development? In the hometown of Jin merchants, at the foot of Phoenix Mountain, Taigu District, Jinzhong City, Shanxi Province, relying on scientific and technological innovation, gave its own answer.
As one of the first batch of national modern agricultural demonstration zones and pilot counties for agricultural reform and construction in national modern agricultural demonstration zones, Taigu District took the lead in basically realizing agricultural modernization in Shanxi Province in 2015. In November 2019, ** officially approved the construction of Shanxi Jinzhong National Agricultural High-tech Industry Demonstration Zone in Taigu District, which is the first batch of national agricultural high-tech industry demonstration zones in Shanxi Province and the only one in Shanxi Province (hereinafter referred to as Jinzhong National Agricultural High-tech Zone).
The picture shows the facility agriculture demonstration base of Jinzhong National Agricultural High Zone. Photo courtesy of Rong ** Center, Taigu District, Jinzhong City, Shanxi Province Photo by Sun Taiyan.
Taigu District polishes the "golden signboard" of Jinzhong National Agricultural High Zone, takes organic dry farming as the theme, takes agricultural and sideline food processing as the leading industry, vigorously implements the "special" and "excellent" strategies, focuses on scientific and technological innovation, strengthens demonstration and guidance, and strives to promote high-quality development, so that agriculture can bloom "the flower of science and technology" in this field of hope.
A batch of seeds that flew into space.
On May 30, 2023, China's Shenzhou-16 manned spacecraft jumped into the sky under the support of the Long March-2F Yao-16 carrier rocket and sent three astronauts into space. Together with the astronauts, there are also 8 categories of 9 varieties of seeds recommended by Jinzhong National Agricultural High Zone and Taigu District of Jinzhong City, including Jingu 21, Sorghum Jinnuo 3, Maize Ruipu 909 female parent, and Quinoa Jiaqi 505, to carry out space mutagenesis carrying experiments.
Seeds are the foundation of agricultural modernization, and it is necessary to promote the national seed industry." * The general secretary of the seed industry is very thoughtful, emphasizing that "only by grasping China's seeds with their own hands can we stabilize China's rice bowl and achieve food security", which pointed out the direction for the reform and development of the seed industry.
On January 25, 2024, the reporter came to the Quinoa Research Institute of the Science and Technology Innovation Base of Jinzhong National Agricultural High Zone, and saw that the laboratory table was full of bottles and cans, and the researchers were concentrating on the technical analysis and determination of the new varieties bred by scientific researchers. Holding up a small bottle of full quinoa seeds, Wu Xiangyun, chairman of Shanxi Jiaqi Seed Industry, happily introduced: "This is the new variety approved by the company through the seed station of the Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, called Jiaqi 100, which is one of the best varieties in China, with whiteness, particle size and fullness are very good, and the average yield per mu can reach more than 250 kg in Qinghai." "After several years of hard work, the Quinoa Research Institute has accumulated 3,200 quinoa germplasm resources, becoming the world's largest quinoa germplasm resource gene bank.
The key to agricultural modernization lies in the modernization of agricultural science and technology. Based on the national scientific and technological strategy of "storing grain on the ground and storing grain in technology", Jinzhong National Agricultural High-tech Zone has put breeding research in a prominent position, successively built a series of innovation platforms such as Millet Research Institute and Quinoa Research Institute, and introduced high-tech enterprises such as Syngenta Seed Industry, Longsheng Seed Industry, Jiaqi Quinoa Seed Industry, and Millet Seed Industry of the Institute of Biology to accelerate the revitalization of the seed industry and provide strong support for the realization of high-quality and efficient agricultural development.
A seed changes a world, a variety enriches the people. On June 29, 2023, with the help of the regional brand of "Jinzhong Agriculture" and the commercial brand of "Nonggao Preferred", a freight vehicle loaded with 25 tons of yellow millet departed from the Smart Farm Demonstration Base of Jinzhong National Agricultural High-tech Zone and drove to Thailand, which is the first export order of Jinzhong National Agricultural High-tech Zone**.
A magical "plant factory".
Walking into the smart farm demonstration base of Jinzhong National Agricultural High Zone in Taigu District, the scene inside is shocking: different from traditional agriculture, there are various pipelines and instruments installed on the ground and in the air, and you can see Internet of Things intelligent equipment, intelligent water and fertilizer integrated machine, reverse osmosis pure water unit, multi-media filter, and so on. In an "extremely comfortable" environment, rows of green vegetables are growing quietly and luxuriantly.
The picture shows the intelligent greenhouse linkage greenhouse in the Jinzhong National Agricultural High Zone. Photo courtesy of Rong ** Center, Taigu District, Jinzhong City, Shanxi Province Photo by Sun Taiyan.
There's a more specific name here – the plant factory." Wang Yujie, a technician of the construction and operation of the first plant factory in Jinzhong National Agricultural High-tech Zone, said proudly, "Time-saving, labor-saving, and intelligent adjustment are the characteristics of large-scale plant factories." Here, the growth parameters of all vegetables are generated by intelligent decision-making after precise control by big data, and the electronic display screen will display temperature, humidity, light intensity, and real-time update of nutrient solution data. ”
The smart farm demonstration base of Jinzhong National Agricultural High-tech Zone is one of the projects of in-depth cooperation between the construction and operation of Jinzhong National Agricultural High-tech Zone and Jingdong Group, with the goal of scientific planting, standardized production and efficient transportation through digital agricultural empowerment, so as to create a precise, intelligent and branded modern agricultural demonstration base.
Through the establishment of the Internet of Things, AI, remote sensing, intelligent management and control systems, etc., the smart farm demonstration base builds a visual traceability system from seeds to chopsticks, so as to realize the whole process management of agricultural products from excellent land and excellent products to high quality and high price. Zheng Wei, the relevant person in charge of the construction and operation of the Jinzhong National Agricultural High-tech Zone, said that after the project is completed, it will effectively promote the increase of farmers' income and fully reflect the demonstration and leading role of the Jinzhong National Agricultural High-tech Zone.
Keeping up with the pace of the times, Taigu District has expanded smart agriculture with digital transformation and actively built a number of smart agriculture pilot zones. Relying on the Juxin Weiye Facility Horticulture Digital Agriculture Demonstration Zone, it carries out the application of technologies such as intelligent seedling production management, pest monitoring and early warning, expert remote service, and automatic sprinkler micro-spraying system; Relying on the all-environment intelligent greenhouse demonstration area of Tomato Town, carry out technical demonstrations such as intelligent water and fertilizer integration equipment, soilless coconut peat cultivation technology, drip irrigation, and electronic greenhouse numerical control system; Build a provincial-level intelligent agricultural machinery comprehensive demonstration base, realize the unified management and monitoring of scattered grain drying equipment, and collect relevant operating parameters ...... in real timeEnabled by high and new technology, Jinzhong National Agricultural High Zone is striving to move towards the digital highland of national agricultural modernization.
A land full of life.
On a winter morning, the wind is cold. Zhao Quanli, the person in charge of Haowei Agricultural Professional Cooperative in Rencun Township, Taigu District, got up early and rushed straight to the collective greenhouse in the village to check the temperature, ventilate and drain moisture, and improve the temperature management ......
This is the time when cucumbers are planted, and it is necessary to 'take care' of these seedlings in order to sell them at a good price. Zhao Quanli told reporters that cucumbers have high temperature requirements. The thermometer next to him showed that the room temperature was 30.
Dongjia Village is one of the few vegetable planting villages in Rencun Township, with more than 240 households in the village, and almost every family has a greenhouse. Speaking of vegetable greenhouses, Liu Shuangzhu, a villager from Dongjia Village who was busy threshing cucumbers in the greenhouse, was very happy, "I used to work outside and grow some corn at home, and my income was only enough to live, so I couldn't save money. Now I have built a greenhouse of 3 acres of land, with an annual income of more than 100,000 yuan, and I will return to my capital in the first year! Bai Jie, the head of Rencun Township, introduced, "Each village in Rencun Township has its own characteristic vegetable industry, and there are more than 30 trading markets in the township to help the masses increase their income." ”
The vegetable industry in Rencun Township is a microcosm of the development of characteristic agriculture in Taigu District to promote the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside.
The picture shows a bumper harvest for large planters in Dongjia Village, Rencun Township, Taigu District. Photo courtesy of Rong ** Center, Taigu District, Jinzhong City, Shanxi Province.
In recent years, the Jinzhong National Agricultural High-tech Zone has built a platform for the transfer and transformation of Shanxi's agricultural scientific and technological achievements, innovated the model of "Agricultural High-tech Zone Experiment + Provincial and Municipal Promotion", effectively integrated production, education, research and application, and has promoted more than 900 new varieties and technologies so far. At the same time, it has promoted the implementation of a number of major landmark demonstration projects in the fields of organic dry farming, efficient facility agriculture, transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and modern agricultural service industry, guided the convergence of various resource elements, and initially built an agricultural industrialization development pattern of gathering enterprises into chains and clusters of chains.
Batches of leading modern agricultural enterprises have landed, and the lives of local people have also changed. Jinzhong National Agricultural High Zone adopts the model of "company + cooperative + farmer" to help the masses in production, comprehensively guarantee the income of the masses, provide jobs in an all-round way, and solve the problem of rural revitalization with modern agriculture.
The whole region has formed a grain planting area of 330,000 mu, a facility vegetable planting area of 70,000 mu and an annual output of 12The leading industry of 50,000 tons of livestock products has cultivated 70 leading agricultural enterprises at or above the county level, 670 farmer cooperatives, 2,000 family farms, and more than 60,000 rural households. The per capita disposable income of farmers has been in the forefront of the province for many years. Yu Xiaojun, secretary of the Taigu District Party Committee, said.
In today's Taigu, the "golden burden" of agricultural modernization is becoming more and more stable, and the quality is becoming more and more sufficient.
Written by: Liang Peiyun Bai Xuhong Review: Li Yanling).