Zhang Qihua: The agricultural machinery Almighty Wang nine years to complete the entire process of mechanized vegetable base

[ China Agricultural Machinery Industry News ] In the hard-hit town of Wenchuan earthquake, there is a farmer king. He spent nine years studying agricultural machinery technology, whether it is field crops or small-scale vegetables, from trenching, drafting, fertilizing, sowing to filming. He is well aware of all kinds of new agricultural machinery, and now he has built a whole mechanized vegetable base.

Zhang Qihua: Agricultural Machinery Wang Jiu Nian built a whole mechanized vegetable base

In the summer, Zhang Qihua occasionally passes through the south bank of Mamu River to see the vast green fields of Sanjie Town.

The old people here said that since the Yin and Shang Dynasties, people in Sanjie Town have chosen water here, and the clear river will flow into every land.

Sanjie Town is located in the southeastern border of Pengzhou, Sichuan Province. It has abundant groundwater resources, fertile soil, no pollution sources in the town, and a natural ecological environment. It has been a famous vegetable town since ancient times. As early as the Qing Dynasty, the vegetables produced here were already tributes to the court.

But who would have thought that in 2008, the Wenchuan earthquake was hit hard, the villages and towns were buried, and the houses collapsed. The Mamu River, an important irrigation channel for water in Sanjie Town, was also completely blocked.

When the earthquake came, Zhang Qihua looked at the devastated land and felt sad and lucky. Time went back. In the year of his junior high school graduation, most of his classmates went to the city, and he chose to stay in Sanjie Town and began to learn about agricultural machinery maintenance. In the 9 years after the earthquake, he became the "king machinery king" in the eyes of local villagers. Whether it is a field crop or a small-scale vegetable, he has used various new agricultural machinery from trenching, drafting, fertilizing, sowing to filming. I know everything.

In the fragmented land, rebuilding homes with agricultural machinery requires courage and persistence.

Mechanization of vegetable production

Later, Zhang Qihua and his wife joined the villagers to establish the Sichuan Pengzhou Yicheng Agricultural Machinery Professional Cooperative, which manages the business of agricultural machinery and agriculture, and also manages 100 acres of field crops and nearly 50 acres of vegetable bases.

The introduction of the vegetable base is still the water of the Mamu River. Zhang Qihua said that his vegetables can be supplied in all seasons, just like the river is constantly resting. "A year of planting rapeseed may be busy once or twice a year, and growing vegetables, busy all year round!"

Since the middle of last year, Zhang Qihua seems to be busier. Since joining the Chengdu Agricultural Machinery Safety Mutual Aid Association, he has often participated in expert exchange activities and technical training to explore the entire mechanized production technology from ploughing and planting to plant management and harvesting.

Because of the frequent study abroad, at the end of the year, Zhang Qihua introduced the “Agricultural Eye®” intelligent monitoring and management system for large-scale agriculture. He described that "the vegetable base is only more than 50 acres, but it is planted with more than ten varieties of lettuce, cabbage, eggplant, cucumber, etc. Each vegetable has different environmental requirements." In the past, almost every household in Sanjie Town Vegetables, many people in the family, usually rely on experience to judge. Now, in the "Agricultural Eyes®" APP, Zhang Qihua can see real-time images of different vegetable varieties and automatically collected environmental data according to different plots, providing a scientific basis for making judgments.

After the whole process of mechanized production, the number of specialists in each vegetable plot was reduced by half, compared with the previous one. Zhang Qihua also said, "From the beginning of January to the end of April, we have successively carried out mechanized sowing, multiple plant protection, and fertilization of lettuce lettuce, which are registered in the APP through the agricultural records, which is convenient for management."

Moreover, according to Zhang Qihua, every year from January to April is a period of high frost, and a serious frost will cause a lot of losses for many farmers. In January of this year, after the successful installation of “Agricultural Eye®”, he used the mobile phone to check the temperature and humidity of the vegetable field every day, and combined with the recent data to predict the frost weather and take relevant preventive measures in time.

In Zhang Qihua's view, it seems that the time of "learning" is now more than that of "growing vegetables." In addition to paying close attention to the soil and crop data, Zhang Qihua will go to the "Agricultural Eyes ®" APP to look at the "Vegetable Pests and Diseases" and "Expert Guidance". He said: "When there are experts, they will follow the experts and learn by themselves when there are no experts."

At present, in the vegetable production base of Zhang Qihua's mechanized production, the yield of lettuce is 5 tons, which is 20% to 40% higher than the average yield.

The key to realizing the quality of vegetables is traceability

Zhang Qihua said that in order to ensure the effective supply of vegetables throughout the year, he introduced the "anti-seasonal planting" varieties of tomatoes, peppers, tomatoes and other vegetables.

For a long time, many people have misunderstood the "anti-seasonal vegetables". They feel that they have applied a lot of pesticides and hormones to ripen them. They are harmful to humans after eating. In the real situation, anti-season vegetables refer to the late spring or summer vegetables in late spring or spring production through the necessary cold-proof measures. Zhang Qihua said: "The 'anti-season vegetables' produced by our base are green vegetables that do not use pesticides and fertilizers. We use the "Agricultural Eyes" agricultural product traceability system to form a full record of the 'anti-season vegetables' planting process. The packaging traces the QR code. When the consumer scans, it can visually see the planting process and dispel the doubts about food safety issues."

In 2012, Pengzhou lettuce was awarded the Agricultural Geographical Indication Certification. When Pengzhou City and surrounding towns are vigorously developing large-scale planting, Zhang Qihua has taken the first step to carry out deep processing of vegetables and brand building.

In the home vegetable base, the lettuce is planted with large yield and excellent quality. Not long ago, Zhang Qihua made seasonal fresh lettuce from this year into lettuce, kimchi, lettuce and dried lettuce. Each can be labeled with the “Agricultural Eye®” traceable source code, which records the lettuce from processing to processing. The whole process of packaging is sold through WeChat friends circle and local e-commerce platform. He firmly believes that mechanized operation and brand packaging of agricultural products can create more intimacy for vegetables and consumers, and the quality of vegetables that will be refined in the future will be the market.

When the second batch of lettuce that was just picked was being loaded, Zhang Qihua took out his mobile phone and opened the “Agricultural Eye®” APP. After registration, he was transported to the processing plant. On the way to the processing plant, Zhang Qihua saw the riverside road, landscape bridge and green belt after the aid was built through the window.

The Ma Mu River is slowly flowing, and it will not forget the industrious figure.