Wudang to ensure agricultural production in 2023

Wudang district in Guiyang, capital of Southwest China's Guizhou province, will make every effort to stabilize grain supply, develop modern controlled environmental agriculture, and promote agricultural and rural modernization this year. 

The district will ensure that the growing area for grain is stable at around 51 square kilometers and the output is over 23,000 metric tons. It will promote diversified crop rotation and interplanting and ensure that the replanting index of cultivated land rises to 135 percent.

Wudang will also boost the planting of oilseed rape in idle fields in winter to stabilize the cultivation covering at around 11 sq km. 

The district will continue to increase its supply of vegetables, pigs and aquatic products, plant 110 sq km of vegetables with an output of 250,000 tons, improve the quality of over 1.3 sq km of fruit trees, breed 35,000 pigs and 300,000 chickens, and increase the output of aquatic products by 600 tons.

Towns, townships and villages with qualified conditions will receive help in building two centralized rice seedling breeding centers and three intensive seedling breeding centers for vegetables and edible fungi. 

In addition, the district will accelerate the development of the processing, refrigeration, storage and preservation of agricultural products and cold chain logistics, and build two new cold storage facilities.