Yong’an, Fujian: “Smart Agriculture” Helps Spring Farming

At present, it is a good time for early rice transplanting. The fields of various villages in Dahu Town, Yong’an City are bustling with activity. Villagers are driving rice transplanters to shuttle back and forth, picking seedlings, planting seeds, and turning around, putting a “green robe” on the farmland.

I didn’t see the farmers busy, only heard the sound of “machines”. Liu Yisong, a “novice” villager from Louche Village, Dahu Town, who was driving a rice transplanter for the first time, carefully drove the transplanter into the field under the guidance of agricultural machinery personnel. In a short while, tender green seedlings slid down from the tray and took root neatly and orderly on the “field of hope”.

Mechanized transplanting is efficient, convenient, precise, and effective. One machine can transplant 20 acres of land per day, which is 20 times more than manual transplanting in the past, “said Wu Chengri, director of the Dahu Town Comprehensive Law Enforcement Office. Mechanical transplanting is fast and good, and the depth, spacing, and row spacing can be automatically adjusted. In addition, the fertilizer applicator applies fertilizer synchronously, which is low-cost and efficient, quickly becoming the “transplanting tool” for spring plowing production.

Dahu Town has effectively integrated land through early scientific planning, transforming “small fields” into “large fields”, promoting centralized, high-quality, and continuous production of farmland, laying a solid foundation for vigorously promoting agricultural production mechanization. The town has taken effective measures such as assisting farmers in purchasing rice transplanters, inviting large grain growers to provide on-site guidance, helping to implement agricultural machinery subsidies, and providing comprehensive agricultural technology services. It has made every effort to bridge the gap for the promotion of mechanical rice transplants, effectively solving the concerns of farmers. There is a 30% subsidy for purchasing agricultural machinery, and one machine can save us farmers thousands of yuan! “Liu Yisong smiled and said.

We will vigorously promote agricultural mechanization and intelligence through policy support, technical guidance, on-site training, and other means, actively contributing scientific and technological efforts to promote agricultural efficiency and farmers’ income. “Lai Zhenquan, the leader in charge of Dahu Town, said that in recent years, by promoting” smart agriculture “methods such as mechanized farming and scientific and technological field management, we have accelerated the pace of spring plowing production, effectively promoting agricultural production towards deep plowing, precision plowing Fine tillage development.