Spring farming season begins in Jiangsu

2022-02-21 16:21:00

As temperatures gradually rise, spring farming in Jiangsu Province begins from the south to the north.

After Start of Spring, the first solar term of the year, began this year on February 4, many places in the province began to prepare for the farming season. In Jianhu County of Yancheng City, professionals were organized to make field trips and provide suggestions and solutions to farmers.

Photo taken on Feb. 16 shows farmers working at experiment farm in Yangzhou Agricultural Science Institution. CFP Photo

Huang Guangjie, deputy director of the Xuzhou Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau, said that the city is doing its best to improve the crops management and ensure stable prices and good quality of farming supplies.

According to the province’s Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the area for growing summer crops will reach 36.95 million mu in Jiangsu, an increase of 30,000 mu over the previous year.

Among the spring farming preparedness, many regions gave priority to mechanized farming, an important indicator of moving towards agricultural modernization.

On the morning of February 18 in Fanshui Town of Baoying County, two farmers dumped a bag of urea into a drone, which later sprayed the organic compound back and forth along a pre-determined route.

Zheng Xiaogang, a researcher from the province’s agricultural mechanization service station, said Jiangsu will offer training to cultivate farmers who can understand technology, operation and management.