Guanshanhu enters autumn harvest, planting season

A tractor harvests rice in a paddy rice field in Guanshanhu district. [Photo/Guiyang Daily]

The agriculture and rural affairs bureau of Guanshanhu district, Guiyang, capital of Southwest China's Guizhou province, has recently mobilized all towns and villages to work to achieve a bumper harvest while ensuring COVID-19 pandemic prevention and control measures.

In 2022, the city-level target assigned to the district is 10,000 mu (666.67 hectares) of corn and 3,100 mu of rice. The district has so far planted 19,000 mu of corn and 3,600 mu of rice this year.

The bureau has arranged for towns to help various planting and operating entities harvest soybeans and corn in an orderly manner.

A total of 19,000 mu of corn in Guanshanhu has been harvested so far, as well as more than 5,000 mu of soybeans.

The bureau purchased rice harvesters, rapeseed direct seeding machines, and potato planting machines on Sept 20 to promote the demonstration of rice machine harvesting and loss reduction, mechanized livestreaming and seedling transplanting.

This has improved agricultural mechanization and laid a solid foundation for the mechanized transformation of cultivated land throughout the entire district.

Autumn rapeseed seedling growing work in the district has now been completed, with a growing area of more than 400 mu and a transplantable planting area of more than 4,000 mu. Transplanting is set to begin at the end of September.