Looking for abundant crops in rape blossoms —— Observation on expanding planting and increasing income in some major rapeseed producing areas in China

Xinhua News Agency, Nanchang, March 29th Title: Looking at the abundant crops in the rape blossoms —— Observation on expanding planting and increasing income in some major rape producing areas in China.

Xinhua News Agency reporters Chen Chunyuan and Zhou Mian

Not only focus on rice, but also rotate rape; In late March, the reporter saw in Hunan and Jiangxi, the main rapeseed producing areas in China, that local governments, large rapeseed growers and processing enterprises made great efforts to increase production, improve quality and increase oil, and increased efficiency and income through the "rapeseed+"model to jointly protect national grain and oil security.

Guaranteed yield

Everywhere is golden, and the fragrance overflows. In late March, in the rape field of Nanchang Wisdom Datian Agricultural Science and Technology Development Co., Ltd., Jiangxi Province, employees were driving excavators to clear ditches and drain water. "Prevent waterlogging and reduce the occurrence of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum." Xiao Jiren, deputy general manager of the company, said that nearly 1,000 mu of rapeseed has entered the stage of flower and pod setting. Last year, the rice harvest was late, and rapeseed missed the best sowing date. The low temperature and rainy weather at the beginning of the year affected the normal growth of rapeseed. "But there are still more than 500 acres of rapeseed growing well. We must keep this hard-won achievement!"

This year, the No.1 Document of the Central Committee proposed to vigorously implement the soybean and oilseed production capacity improvement project. Developing winter fallow fields and expanding rapeseed in the Yangtze River basin. In recent years, Jiangxi insists on taking "big grain and oil producers" as the main body, making good use of policy project funds, vigorously popularizing the models of "one-season rice+ratooning rice+rape" and "double-season rice+rape", and constantly expanding rape production. It is estimated that the area of rape harvested in summer in 2022 will reach 8 million mu, which is expected to reach a new high in the past seven years.

Expand the sowing surface and ensure the yield. The sown area and yield of rape in Hunan rank among the top in the country all the year round. Tang Jianchu, deputy director of the Hunan Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, said that there are about 25 million mu of cultivated land suitable for developing rape production in Hunan, and there is still about 5 million mu of room for expansion compared with the existing 20 million mu of rape. In 2021, the rape yield in Hunan reached a record high. As long as the key technical measures are put in place, the yield per unit area can be increased by more than 20 kilograms in a short time.

If you want to produce more, you must plant well. Jiangxi takes improving quality and increasing oil as an important starting point, implements high-efficiency cultivation techniques such as rape joint sowing and slow-release fertilizer, and promotes the green, high-quality and high-efficiency technology of rape "445" suitable for this region, driving the proportion of high-quality rape planting in the province to reach 95%. Hunan is also vigorously promoting key technologies such as reasonable close planting and comprehensive control of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum, and radiation has driven balanced production increase in surrounding areas. In the past three years, the coverage rate of high-quality rapeseed varieties with low erucic acid and low glucosinolate in Hunan has reached 98.3%.

Increase income

Not only to expand the planting area, but also to increase production and income, farmers in Jiangxi and Hunan have started the "rape+"model. Chen Zhengping, a large rapeseed grower in Hunan, said that he planted 680 mu of rapeseed by rotation, including 480 mu of "rice oil" and 200 mu of "rice oil". First, collect the oil-flowering Chinese flowering Chinese flowering Chinese flowering Chinese flowering Chinese flowering Chinese flowering Chinese flowering Chinese flowering Chinese flowering Chinese flowering Chinese flowering Chinese flowering Chinese flowering Chinese flowering Chinese flowering Chinese flowering Chinese flowering Chinese flowering Chinese cabbage. More than 300 kilograms of rapeseed will be harvested after the oil flowering Chinese flowering Chinese flowering Chinese flowering Chinese flowering Chinese flowering Chinese flowering Chinese flowering Chinese flowering Chinese flowering Chinese flowering Chinese flowering Chinese flowering Chinese flowering Chinese flowering Chinese flowering Chinese flowering Chinese flowering Chinese flowering Chinese flowering Chinese flowering Chinese flowering Chinese flowering Chinese flowering Chinese flowering Chinese flowering Chinese flowering Chinese flowering Chinese flowering Chinese flowering Chinese flowering Chinese flowering Chinese flowering Chinese flowering Chinese flowering Chinese flowering Chinese flowering Chinese flowering Chinese flowering Chinese flowering Chinese flowering Chinese flowering Chinese flowering Chinese flowering Chinese flowering Chinese flowering Chinese flowering Chinese flowering Chinese flowering Chinese flowering Chinese flowering Chinese flowering Chinese.

In Shangwan Village, Yingqian Town, Shangyou County, Jiangxi Province, 100 acres of rape blossoms have attracted many tourists. Huang Fuxi, secretary of the Party branch of the village, said with delight that with flowers as the medium, Shangwan Village has become a punching place in online celebrity. Villagers set up stalls at their doorsteps to sell Hakka food, open "farmhouse music" to develop rural tourism, and plant rape to cultivate green manure to improve the soil.

Tam Village, Wuzui Township, Nanxian County, Hunan Province, planted 1,800 mu of rape as early as 2015, and created graffiti on the wall of each villager’s house to create "Tam Huahai Graffiti Art Village". In order to pursue differentiation and specialization, Tam Village planted another 150 mu of "colorful rape flowers" last year to attract tourists in the form of "3D artistic landscaping".

Since 2018, Hunan has held several rape flower festivals. According to preliminary statistics, in 2021, driven by the provincial rape flower festival, 38 counties in the province held rape flower festivals, attracting 5.87 million tourists and achieving a comprehensive tourism income of 2.14 billion yuan.

Walking into a rapeseed processing enterprise in Jiangxi, the reporter saw the roar of automatic machinery and equipment, the smell of oil in the factory, the extraction, grinding, granulation and filling … The production line was running intelligently. As a leading rapeseed deep processing enterprise in Jiangxi, this company has developed a series of products with strong aroma and pure rapeseed oil according to the needs of different groups.

Ye Qiu, chairman of an xiang Green Leaf Agricultural Machinery Service Professional Cooperative, said that he has planted more than 10,000 mu of rape, and achieved good comprehensive benefits by selling oil-flowering stems, pressing oil and keeping bees.

Look forward to support

In Zhongqie Village, Nanjing Town, quannan county City, Jiangxi Province, Tan Liming, a big rapeseed planter, is about to harvest more than 200 mu of full rapeseed. He has both joy, worry and hope. I am glad to get the seeds provided by the government free of charge and the subsidy of 300 yuan per mu; The worry is that the planting area is large, and once you encounter pests and diseases, your harvest will be ruined. He is looking forward to more guidance from agricultural experts in the field, business training, and the formation of a local team of "agricultural doctors" to help farmers grow a good harvest.

"Because of the stubble problem of rice tankers in the south, a lot of rapeseed planted by the company last year can only be used for viewing rape flowers, and it will be returned to the field as green manure after rotary tillage and retting in early April." Xiao Jiren said that if mechanization is adopted in the whole process and "rice seedlings and other fields" are realized in every link, the planting mode of "rice, rice and oil" or "rice and oil" can be realized, and I hope the state will further support the whole process of agricultural mechanization.

Chen Youfa, a villager from Liufang Village, Shandang Town, Le ‘an County, Jiangxi Province, told reporters that he used his own agricultural machinery to plow the land, but due to the rising cost of fuel, agricultural materials and labor, the input cost of one mu of rapeseed was higher than that of 300 yuan. Ye Qiu also admitted that the current cost for farmers to grow rape is still too high. I hope the state will further curb the excessive rise in agricultural prices and increase subsidies for large growers.

"Most of the 1,370 mu of rapeseed in the village is concentrated and contiguous, and the village collective unified ploughing and sowing, and the villagers claimed planting, which improved the enthusiasm of farmers." Huang Xingzong, a villager from Tongjiang Village, Shandang Town, Le ‘an County, Jiangxi Province, claimed 49 mu of rape field this year. He said that in order to promote rape planting, in October last year, the village collectively invested in three rape combine seeders, which cost more than 50,000 yuan in addition to the national agricultural machinery subsidy. If the local government can provide more rape planting services and realize large-scale contiguous planting, large households will still be happy to use their winter leisure time to grow rape.