Drones serve as “plant protectors” and eat “fresh nutrients” in the soil

During the critical period of winter field management, the staff and masses of various companies in Qitai Farm of the Sixth Division of Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps actively seized the opportunity to carry out scientific field management during agricultural season, allowing plant protection drones to “fly” to the fields, become good “plant protection personnel”, and provide the soil with “fresh nutrition”.

Pick up the remote control sensor, check the smart display screen, press the takeoff button, and a black drone soars with the operator’s instructions, accompanied by a “buzzing” roar, flying rapidly over the farmland of Zhao Lianbin, a 27th company employee. As the propeller rotates, the spray head under the fuselage sprays white atomized pesticides evenly onto the crops. In recent years, Zhao Lianbin has been using plant protection drones for field management and flight prevention every year, which can not only timely prevent and control various diseases and pests that occur during wheat growth, but also help wheat resist drought, cold, and freezing. This year, Zhao Lianbin planted over 140 acres of winter wheat. He contacted the plant protection drone in advance and said, “Using drones is convenient, labor-saving, and even. This year is another bumper year.

The key measures to promote root and tiller growth and cultivate wheat are to irrigate spring well and apply green and jointing fertilizers well. In the demonstration field of key technologies for super high yield and efficiency of winter wheat in the 25th consecutive year of Qitai Farm, grower Yu Cunjun is busy fertilizing. In the past two years, he has been using microbial agents to improve soil quality and yield of wheat. Yu Cunjun said, “My winter wheat field was sown on September 24th last year, and I planted 30 acres. When I watered the first turning green water, I used 150 grams of microbial inoculants per acre. We not only need multiple types of grains, but also need to plant good grains. Last year, I used microbial inoculants on all 58 acres of land, and the soil improvement effect was good.

Last winter and this spring, Qitai Farm actively promoted microbial inoculants to its employees in accordance with the work concept of improving soil, increasing yield, and promoting green development. In response to the decreasing organic matter content, soil compaction, and increasingly serious diseases, pests, and weeds in the farmland of the farm. Since the start of winter wheat returning to green field management work, Qitai Farm has actively organized technical personnel from the Agricultural Development Service Center to go deep into the field, conduct training on wheat scientific management technology, guide farmers to hire professional flight prevention teams, carry out drone spraying drug prevention and control operations, and ensure a high yield and harvest of wheat. Sun Zhiyuan, Director of the Agricultural Development Service Center of Qitai Farm, said: We will continue to increase the promotion of science and technology, protect and improve the quality of arable land, in accordance with the work ideas of improving soil, increasing yield, and green development. At the same time, we will regularly invite military and division agricultural technology experts to the farm to conduct science and technology training, organize science and technology service teams to provide planting services, so that farmers can master more scientific planting management techniques, and continue to promote wheat quality and efficiency improvement.

In recent years, Qitai Farm has adhered to the principle of technology empowering agricultural production, achieving full mechanization of grain planting, and using advanced planting management technologies such as drip irrigation, soil testing, formula fertilization, chemical control, etc., breaking the high yield record of winter wheat in Xinjiang three times. Next, Qitai Farm will continue to do a good job in protecting farmland, ensuring the planting area of grain, actively exploring new paths to increase grain yield, continuously tapping into the potential for grain production increase, and polishing the business card of the “Corps Grain Warehouse”.