Fujian's agriculture gradually entered the era of mechanization

The reporter learned from the Fujian Provincial Agricultural Work Conference recently held that there are “eight mountains and one water and one field” Fujian, the comprehensive level of mechanization of agricultural cultivation in 2011 reached 31.2%, more and more farmers are gradually bid farewell to pure Hand-crafted agricultural production era.

According to the introduction of Chen Shaojun, Director of the Department of Agriculture of Fujian Province, in 2011, Fujian implemented 380 million yuan in subsidies for the purchase of agricultural machinery at the central and provincial levels, subsidized the purchase of 194,600 sets of new agricultural machinery (sets), and installed 36,000 mu of micro-drip irrigation equipment for water-saving irrigation. The number of beneficiary households was 100.9 thousand, which led farmers to invest 750 million yuan. It is estimated that the total agricultural machinery power in the province will reach 12.5 million kilowatts.

In the special fund for central and provincial agricultural machinery purchase subsidies, 97.38 million yuan and 30.77 million yuan were respectively earmarked for the subsidies for the construction of agricultural steel frame greenhouses, and 21,000 mu of agricultural greenhouses were newly built, and over 1.5 million mu of tasks were issued by the provincial government. , driving the construction of 16.24 million mu of agricultural greenhouses for various types of facilities.

It is understood that in 2012, Fujian will increase subsidies for rice, vegetables, fruits, tea, edible fungi, live pigs, laying hens and other industry-related machinery, and construct agricultural machinery demonstration areas in key industries and key regions. It plans to build 1.5 million mu of steel greenhouses for the construction of facilities, bringing about 100,000 mu of demonstrations, and promoting the upgrading of facilities for agricultural equipment. In terms of rice, it will support the development of industrialized planting. The area of ​​machine farming, machine insertion and harvesting will reach 13.9 million mu, 1 million mu and 4 million mu, respectively, and the comprehensive level of agricultural mechanization will exceed 35%.