The Ministry of Agriculture has made every effort to promote the upgrading of agricultural mechanization and achieved remarkable results.

[ China Agricultural Machinery Industry News ] In 2017, the Ministry of Agriculture focused on the nine major crops of grain, cotton and oil, and focused on the six major links of ploughing, planting, plant protection, harvesting, drying and straw treatment, and fully promoted the mechanization of the main crop production. The agricultural mechanization has been upgraded and achieved remarkable results. A total of 130 mechanized demonstration counties were launched nationwide, and the comprehensive mechanization level of major crops increased by more than 1 percentage point.

Policy measures are exerted, focusing on weak production links. Give full play to the support and guidance role of the agricultural machinery purchase subsidy policy, and open subsidies for bulk crop production equipment and tools for deep pine preparation, no-till sowing, plant protection, water-saving irrigation, straw returning to the field, residual film recycling, etc. The provinces carried out pilot subsidies for new agricultural products and application of subsidies for plant protection drones to accelerate the breakthrough in mechanization of weak links. The level of mechanization of weak links in the production of grain and large-scale economic crops has increased rapidly, and the rate of rice transplanting (casting) will reach 46.5%, an increase of 2 percentage points over the previous year. The corn machine yield was 69%, an increase of 2.5 percentage points over the previous year. The cotton machine yield is expected to reach 28%, an increase of 4 percentage points over the previous year. The level of sugar cane production in the main producing areas is expected to reach 10% this year, an increase of 2 percentage points over last year. It is expected that the comprehensive mechanization rate of major food crops will exceed 80%.

Driven by new business entities to improve the level of application. A total of 260 agricultural machinery cooperative demonstration clubs with strong service capabilities have been launched nationwide. With the theme of “Five Types and Three Summers” for information, quality, green, peace and warm heart, we organized the “three summers” mechanized production of wheat cross-regional machine harvesting. The total harvested wheat area in the country is 317 million mu, and the machine revenue ratio reaches 95. %, an increase of 2 percentage points year-on-year, a record high. Focusing on the promotion of autumn harvest, autumn planting and autumn land preparation, the company organized the mechanized production of “Sanqiu”, completed the corn harvesting area of ​​368 million mu, and the winter wheat machined area of ​​250 million mu; the agricultural machinery deepened the land preparation work, and as of late November, Over 150 million acres of deep pine preparation work has been completed.

Demonstration and promotion are solidly promoted, and green technologies are widely used.

The whole process of mechanization demonstration projects was implemented in 140 counties of 27 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities, and more than 300 demonstration sites were established to create a model of integrated application of mechanized technology and operation service modes. The “Work Plan for Promoting Agricultural Green Development in 2017” was formulated, and 21 major measures and 35 task indicators were proposed. Organized a series of agricultural mechanization technical training and operation demonstration activities, and vigorously promoted energy-saving and environmental protection, green ecological mechanization technology. The technologies of “one control, two reductions and three basics” such as conservation tillage, precision sowing, deep application of fertilizer, water-saving irrigation, straw returning to the field, and application of medicine have been widely applied. (Original title: Significant progress in mechanization of major crops)