CCTV News (News Network): At present, it is the critical season for spring plowing and spring management. All localities seize the farming season and live up to the spring, laying the foundation for a bumper grain harvest throughout the year.

Wheat in various places has entered the jointing period. This year, Henan’s wheat planting area is 85 million mu. In Shangqiu, growers use plant protection drones to spray and fertilize. At present, there are more than 1,530 plant protection drones in Shangqiu. During the peak period of wheat "one spray and three preventions" operation, the proportion of drone flight defense area can reach 53%. In Shuyang, Jiangsu, agricultural technicians guide farmers to prevent and treat wheat gibberellosis, stripe rust, etc., and at the same time, they guide farmers to use drones and plant protection machines to help spring pipes speed up and increase efficiency. Shandong winter wheat enters the peak period of spring irrigation. Spring irrigation has been launched in 155 large and medium-sized irrigation areas across the province, irrigating more than 33 million mu of wheat fields. In order to ensure spring irrigation water use, localities continue to invest new irrigation technologies and new equipment to help wheat growers reduce costs and improve efficiency.

The production of early rice in southern China is accelerating. The sowing area of ​​early rice in Hunan is expected to exceed 18 million mu this year. In the intelligent seedling cultivation factory in Changsha County, the intelligent sensors installed on the seedling racks can monitor key information such as temperature and humidity in real time, and staff can perform fill light, spraying and other operations through their mobile phones. Guangxi's early rice transplanting has now exceeded 7 million mu. In the rice fields of Tiandong County, rice transplanters shuttle back and forth. This rice transplanter designed for local agricultural production characteristics is simple to operate and highly adaptable, effectively improving production efficiency. This year, Guangxi has invested more than 850,000 agricultural machinery and equipment to produce over 850,000 agricultural machinery, which has effectively guaranteed the local demand for spring farm machinery. The early rice seeds in Jiangxi have exceeded 20%. In Xinjian District, Nanchang City, more than 10 high-speed rice transplanters are busy in the fields. One high-speed rice transplanter can plant more than 40 acres of rice seedlings a day. At present, Jiangxi has invested more than 20,000 high-performance seeding and transplanting machines (sets).