Yunnan Mengzi: Integrating “Green” Resources and “Wisdom” to Create New Farmers

After the rain, the sky cleared and the sunlight was particularly warm. Entering Mengla Village, Mingjiu Town, Mengzi City, Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, several plant protection drones were shuttling back and forth in the field at low altitudes, with a mist like liquid medicine evenly scattered on the crops.

Under the guidance of Zhang Qiqi, a cooperative technician, Xu Jinju, a “90s generation” villager who has just joined the plant protection service team, is steadily controlling drones and providing green plant protection and prevention services on nearly a thousand acres of tobacco and corn fields.

At present, it is a good season for crop growth and a crucial period for disease and pest control. It is important to do a good job in mid-term field control management, “said Liu Chao, a technician at the tobacco leaf workstation in Mingjiu Town, Mengzi Tobacco Monopoly Bureau.

This year, the Mengzi Tobacco Monopoly Bureau, in accordance with relevant policies, subsidized local tobacco farmers’ cooperatives in purchasing multiple new plant protection drones, pond digging machines, and film covering machines, greatly improving operational efficiency. At the same time, with the support of the agricultural department in Mengzi City, the local tobacco farmers’ cooperative also held several practical training sessions on the integrated development of agricultural machinery and agriculture, cultivating more than 50 agricultural machinery workers in a hands-on manner.

We not only serve tobacco production, but also radiate to major agricultural crops such as rice, corn, and fruit forests. More and more farmers are seeking us to provide mechanized operation services, “said Zhang Shaohui, the chairman of the local cooperative.

In recent years, the Tobacco Monopoly Bureau of Mengzi City has taken reducing work and costs as its goal, continuously improving the mechanism for promoting tobacco farmers’ income, continuously improving the conversion rate of technology, increasing the promotion of mechanized operations, making labor-intensive and complex agricultural planting processes simpler, mechanized, intelligent, and green, and taking practical actions to assist rural revitalization.