Central China’s Hunan Province is one of the country’s largest agricultural production centers, and a city called Chunhua has been used for pilot projects since the 1950s. In recent years, the city has used methods of high technology to develop the local agricultural industry.
The methods were carried out in a complete pilot demonstration area, covering an area of 200,000 square meters. By improving the quality of cultivated land, seeds and planting methods, he hopes to improve product quality and yield per unit.
The results so far have been pretty good. The yield of summer rice this year was more than 623.7 kilograms per mu (666.7 square meters), almost 178.4 kilograms higher than other regular rice fields in the same area.
The area uses various types of high-level technologies, including a full coverage of ecological pest control devices.
“This device uses both sex attractants and food attractants to kill insects. It is environmentally friendly and kills more pests than the traditional ones, which only use sex attractants,” Zhao Zhenghong, president of Hunan Rice Research Institute, told CGTN while showed pest control. device
The demonstration area is built as a model to be replicated in other areas, currently using fully mechanized production. Local authorities said this helps ease the workload of local farmers.
“The mechanization of agriculture means that farmers can take care of fields more easily. In the past, a farmer could only plant a few Mu of fields, but now we have some farmers who can take care of several hundred Mu of fields by itself.” Luo Ao, vice mayor of Chunhua Town, told CGTN.
In addition, because of its great natural environment for agricultural production, and its long history in the local agricultural industry, Chunhua has attracted nearly 20 agricultural research companies and institutions.
“We specialize in breeding, producing, promoting and selling new plant varieties. Every year, we develop 6,000 new types of agricultural products, and only five or six of them enter the market,” said He Jiuchun, president by Pepper Seed. Co., Ltd. – one of the agricultural research companies in Chunhua.
Local officials said they hope to develop a modernized agricultural industry. To do that, they not only create demonstration areas and attract institutions, but also educate modern professional farmers, as they believe that talented people are key to development.
