Spring ploughing was just the time when farm machinery was busy in the fields

On March 4, Guo Xiaolian, an agricultural mechanic of yuanze agricultural machinery service farmers' Professional Cooperative in Xiuwen County, was operating a rotary tiller to plow the land in the 100 mu vegetable base in Ganxi village, Liuchang Township, Xifeng County. "Farming with agricultural machinery is lower cost and more efficient than labor. The 160 mu of land can be ploughed in seven days at most by a machine operator." Lu Ping, head of the vegetable base, said he would plant Lotus white after the land was cultivated.

People are diligent, spring comes early, and production is just at the right time. The spring ploughing season every year is the busiest time for the major agricultural machinery cooperatives and large agricultural machinery households in Guiyang. In the vast rural land, agricultural machinery operators are operating rotary tillers, tractors, ridging machines and so on. They are busy in the fields, helping agricultural production in spring.

"Hundreds of mu of arable land, ridging and ditching services have been completed, and it is estimated that more than 20000 mu will be cultivated in spring this year." Xiuwen County yuanze agricultural machinery services farmers professional cooperatives chairman Zhang yuanze said. Since its establishment eight years ago, the cooperative has absorbed 32 farmers' manipulators, and has more than 70 sets of tractors, harvesters, rotary tillers, ditching machines, ridging machines, lawn mowers and other agricultural machinery. The scope of operation not only covers many areas of Xiuwen, but also extends to Xifeng, Qingzhen and other surrounding areas. The annual service income is between 700000 and 800000 yuan.

"The use of agricultural machinery has not only greatly improved the efficiency of agricultural production, brought economic benefits to the cooperatives, but also greatly promoted the development of the industry." Liu Lintao, head of the Agricultural Mechanization Management Office of Guiyang agricultural and rural Bureau, said that up to now, the city has completed 301000 mu of mechanized farming, invested 32400 sets of various agricultural machines and tools, repaired 9200 sets of machines and tools, and trained 3800 agricultural workers.

In order to give full play to the main role of agricultural machinery in spring farming production, Guiyang has put in place 950000 yuan of central agricultural machinery purchase subsidy in 2021, including 150000 yuan for Wudang District, Qingzhen City, Kaiyang County, Xifeng County and guanshanhu District, and 200000 yuan for Xiuwen County. Guiyang will make good use of the subsidy policy for the purchase of live agricultural machinery in accordance with the implementation plan for the purchase of agricultural machinery in Guizhou Province from 2018 to 2020, and handle timely payment subsidies for agricultural machinery urgently needed for spring farming production. The objects of subsidy are individuals engaged in agricultural production and agricultural production and operation organizations.

In order to ensure production safety, agricultural and rural departments at all levels in Guiyang have organized and carried out market sales, reserve investigation and safety inspection of agricultural machinery in advance, trained and improved the skills of agricultural machinery operators, and conducted technical guidance in the field. All Agricultural Machinery Cooperatives and large agricultural machinery households also actively do a good job in the repair, maintenance and debugging of agricultural machinery, so as to ensure that agricultural machinery is put into spring farming production in a good technical state.

"We will continue to actively guide agricultural machinery cooperatives and large agricultural machinery households to carry out social services, standardize various safety supervision work, strengthen the publicity and education of agricultural machinery safety production, popularize the knowledge of agricultural machinery safety production, ensure the safety of agricultural machinery spring planting production, and ensure the smooth development of spring planting." Cai Jian, head of the Municipal Agricultural Machinery Extension Station, said.