East China’s Jiangsu province is promoting mechanized and intelligent agricultural machinery and efficient field management on a large scale in a bid to lay a solid foundation for stable grain growth throughout the year.
In a wheat field in Suqian city, 2 self-propelled boom sprayers and 4 agricultural unmanned plant protection machines are spraying insecticides back and forth to eliminate field pests.
Zhou Maoxi, a local farmer, said that mechanized management was adopted throughout the wheat planting process this year, which has saved costs and effectively reduced pesticide residues.
In preparation for the spring plowing season this year, the air + ground three-dimensional operation has become a daily practice in Jiangsu.
Jiangsu Agricultural Reclamation Xinyang Farm has strengthened wheat field management and leveled rice seedling ponds in advance.
Different from previous years, this year the farm has put into use a laser leveling machine. This new machine can level the fields according to the height of the land through satellite positioning, which not only saves time and effort, but also significantly improves the flatness of the fields.
Jiangsu has invested about 25 thousand units or sets of high ground clearance sprayers, unmanned plant protection aircraft and other high-efficiency plant protection machinery, and more than 8.4 thousand units or sets of seedling planters, ensuring the orderly progress of spring plowing preparations and lay a solid foundation for stabilizing and increasing grain production.
