Huhehaote: one hand on the epidemic prevention and one hand to protect the autumn harvest

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Looking at the corn cobs drying in his yard, Wang Zhiguo happily calculated this year’s income, “grain is not worried about selling, the purchase price of corn this year per catty than last year also expensive a few cents.” Wang Zhiguo is a farmer in the village of North Delitu, Tumertzuo Banner, Inner Mongolia, just a while ago, he was worried because of the epidemic, how to do the unharvested crops in the ground?

Since the first confirmed cases of this round of epidemic were reported in Hohhot on September 28, as of 24:00 on October 16, there were 335 confirmed cases and 2,937 asymptomatic infections, with 212 medium-risk areas and 419 high-risk areas delineated.

In autumn, corn, rice and other crops are harvested, but the sudden outbreak of the disease has made “harvesting” a problem. The 1.362 million mu of corn sown in Hohhot City’s Tumertzuo Banner urgently needs to be harvested, and the farming season cannot wait or slow down. In the face of this situation, the local authorities are focusing on the prevention and control of the epidemic and the autumn harvest, organizing farmers to work in the fields and staggering the harvesting of farm machinery.

On October 16, in Hohhot City, Tumertzuo Banner, the village of Su Zhuang, North Shishaxiang corn fields, harvesters shuttle back and forth, along with the roar of the machine, corn stalks down in rows, picking ears, peeling, straw crushing and other processes completed at once. Wang Zhiguo family’s 60 mu of corn harvesting is also completed, “this year, the cost of renting agricultural machinery is also reduced, in previous years to collect a mu of corn to spend 60 yuan.”

“After the outbreak of the epidemic, the flow of farm machinery is restricted and the lack of workers has a certain impact on the autumn grain harvest.” According to Guo Xu, head of the planting industry management section of Hohhot City Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Bureau, 5,646,200 mu of grain crops were sown in Hohhot City in 2022, including 3,749,700 mu of corn. As of October 16, 4,589,300 mu have been harvested, accounting for 81.28% of the total autumn grain area, and 1,056,900 mu of crops are being harvested, which is mainly corn, and a small number of miscellaneous grains.

In response to the above-mentioned difficulties, Hohhot City Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Bureau of Agricultural Machinery Section Chief Ning Hongbin introduced the Bureau of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry reserves called the city-wide agricultural machinery 4987 units, including 3369 units of potato harvesters, 1326 units of corn combine harvesters, 292 units of rice and wheat combine harvesters, a reasonable division of agricultural machinery service areas, to maximize the protection of the city’s supply of agricultural machinery.

In addition, the local also set up an emergency harvest operation service team of 21, about 400 people, to ensure the smooth implementation of the autumn harvest. Ning Hongbin said that the emergency harvesting operation service team is distributed in each banner area of Hohhot City, the reserve of 75 sets of agricultural machinery, can be out of the hands of 158 people, 160 safety officers, liaison 90 people, so far the emergency harvesting operation service team has been for the epidemic control area operation service area of 38,000 mu.

In the past few days, the emergency harvesting operation service team of Yang Zhigang in Hohhot City and Linge County has not yet harvested the corn field busy, he told reporters, he is and Linge County Agricultural Cooperative, the cooperative has 12 corn combine harvesters, tractors more than 20, “the recent we are stepping up operations, and strive to complete the task of harvesting before the end of the month. “

Ning Hongbin said, for really need cross-banner operation of agricultural machinery, open agricultural machinery green channel 10, operators in accordance with the “point to point” and no contact service mode to carry out operational services. For meat, eggs, milk, vegetable transportation, farm machinery operations issued “agricultural production to ensure the supply of transport vehicles pass” 3150, to ensure the autumn grain harvest and key agricultural and livestock products supply.

Guo Xu said that if farmers have not recovered the crop in the medium to high risk areas, “do not be too anxious, as long as there is no windy rainfall weather, delayed harvest will not have much impact, but rather conducive to seed dehydration.” If farmers themselves are isolated, they can contact capable new business entities to provide socialized services such as generation of harvest, transportation and storage. In addition, the Hohhot City Bureau of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry makes full use of all kinds of network media resources to release small videos on agricultural information, safety guidelines, weather forecasts and initiatives, and publishes eight hotlines to protect the autumn harvest, so as to communicate, give feedback and solve the problems encountered by farmers in a timely manner.

Some farmers also volunteered to help folks with their autumn harvest. Yang Wenping is a large corn grower in Shira Village, Tumertzuo Banner, Hohhot City. This year, Yang Wenping planted 4,000 mu of corn, he used his own two corn combine harvester, free to help the villagers in the village harvest corn, “every morning more than 5 o’clock on the start, until 11:00 p.m. busy.”

Yang Wenping said, in previous years, the autumn harvest season, everyone gathered in the field busy, “this year, the farm machinery to which family, we then notify the farmers to send a person out, we all wear a good mask, the farm mechanics do not get off the whole process.” After many days of efforts, Yang Wenping said, “the village of corn are currently snatched up, corn prices this year and high, grain is not worried about selling, we are very satisfied.”

According to Tumertzuo Banner Agricultural and Animal Husbandry Bureau Director Shi Wenhong introduced, as of October 14 at 16:00, the flag food crops in addition to corn other food crops basically completed harvesting, corn completed harvesting 1,135,700 acres, accounting for 83.4%, is expected to be completed before October 22 autumn harvest. Shi Wenhong said, “affected by the epidemic, agricultural machinery maintenance encountered difficulties, the Agricultural and Livestock Bureau of Agricultural Machinery Service Center staff will help farmers, contact manufacturers and distributors of professional staff to video and telephone and other ways to try to solve the problem of agricultural machinery maintenance, to ensure that the crops return to the barn.”

In the October 15 Hohhot new crown pneumonia epidemic prevention and control press conference, Hohhot City, Deputy Director of the Bureau of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Gao Fengqin said that by taking a variety of measures, “the city’s autumn harvest is not affected by the epidemic, this year the city is expected to achieve grain production ‘nineteen consecutive bumper’. “