Agriculture gets a modern update
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In Nong鈥檃n, a major grain-producing county in northeast China鈥檚 Jilin Province, a drone flies above the crop fields, spraying a white mist of chemicals.
鈥淒rone spraying is five times more efficient than tractor sprayers, let alone manual spraying,鈥 said Wen Yesheng, head of Zhongyi agricultural machinery cooperative. 鈥淭hat鈥檚 the power of modern agriculture.鈥
Wen鈥檚 greenhouse is even more high-tech. In the past, he had to roll up the curtains to lower the temperature, or burn coal for heating. Now an automated exhaust system and solar energy equipment are in place.
The increased use of large machinery and high-tech equipment has also helped farmers cut grain losses in harvesting.
A cooperative in Minyue Village, Songyuan City, started using an advanced corn harvester this year, which can cut the plant and separate the seeds from the cobs while processing and spreading the corn stover over the field.
鈥淭he traditional harvester collected corn and transported them to a storage house for further separation work. Around 1 percent of seeds was lost during the process,鈥 said Zhang Zhifeng, the village Party chief. 鈥淭he new machine has higher efficiency and can greatly reduce the losses of harvest.鈥
The agriculture mechanization rate of main crops in Jilin is more than 80 percent. The province, which has around 600,000 large and medium-sized tractors, is just one example of China鈥檚 push to develop modern agriculture.
The country had 1.14 million combine harvesters and 14.31 million items of irrigation and drainage equipment by the end of 2016, up 105.3 percent and 6.1 percent, respectively, compared with a decade ago, according to results of the country鈥檚 third national agricultural survey.
Li Weiguo, an official with the Ministry of Agriculture, said that China would advance the scientific and technological innovation of agricultural machines, providing efficient equipment and technical support for the upgrading of its agricultural mechanization.
The big market has attracted foreign brands. World famous equipment manufacturers such as John Deere and AGCO from the United States and Italy鈥檚 SDF Group are frequent visitors of machinery exhibitions and agricultural fairs held in China.
Accompanying the increasing use of machinery is the growth of scale farming.
Around 2 million specialized farmer鈥檚 cooperatives were registered by the end of November, 76 times the number a decade ago, the ministry said. The cooperatives now have over 100 million rural households participating, accounting for 46.8 percent of the country鈥檚 total.
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