Statistics and Analysis of Agricultural Mechanization Development in Shandong Province in the First Half of the Year

The year 2011 is the first year of the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” and is also a key year for the province to fully realize the mechanization of rural industries. In the past six months, the province’s agricultural machinery department continued to follow the principle of “based on large-scale agriculture, development of large-scale agricultural machinery, and service to the new countryside. With its development strategy, emancipating the mind, seeking truth and being pragmatic, and working hard, after the overall development of the province's agricultural mechanization has entered the advanced stage, it has maintained a healthy and steady development trend. The relevant situation is now analyzed as follows:

1. The subsidy policy for agricultural machinery promoted the optimization and upgrading of agricultural machinery and equipment, and the ability to guarantee modern agricultural production was significantly enhanced. Under the promotion of subsidy policies, the total amount of agricultural machinery and equipment in the first half of this year will continue to grow steadily. It is expected that the province's total agricultural machinery will reach 119 million kilowatts, an increase of 2.31 million kilowatts, an increase of 2% over the previous year. In the implementation of the subsidy policy, our province continued to adhere to the principle of focusing on key points and overall arrangements, constantly adjusted the structure of the stock of agricultural machinery, optimized the incremental structure, and made significant effect of the subsidy policy to promote structural adjustment.

The large-scale development of agricultural machinery is still strong. In the first half of the year, the number of agricultural tractors in the province is expected to reach 2.483 million units. After more than five years of structural adjustment, the ratio of large and medium-sized tractors to small ones has grown from 1:7.3 in 2006 to the current 1:4.5, an increase of 69%, and the effect of structural adjustment has been remarkable. In particular, among the 41,000 farm tractors added in the first half of the year, 23,000 were for small tractors, up 1.1%, and 25,000 for large and medium-sized ones, up 5.9%, an increase of nearly 5 percentage points over small ones. The new tractor with more than 25 horsepower has an average power of more than 65 horsepower, an increase of 4 horsepower from the previous year. For tractors over 80 hp, the first-half purchase subsidy policy subsidized 8056 units, accounting for 76% of the total subsidies for the whole year. At the same time, in order to meet the needs of mechanical deepening and large-scale operations, tractors over 100 hp have gradually been Farmers accepted and the sales market became active. The strong growth of large and medium-sized tractors has also led to the coordinated development of supporting agricultural tools. In the first half of the year, an increase of 158,000 sets of supporting agricultural implements saw small-scale growth of 3.6%, and large- and medium-sized growth of 5.4%, an increase of over 1.8 percentage points.

The market for grain harvesting machinery remains strong. In the subsidy work, our province insisted on the development of mechanization of grain production as the central task of agricultural mechanization work. While continuing to stabilize the mechanization of wheat production, it further broke through the mechanization of corn harvesting. In the first half of the year, the growth of the wheat combine harvester remained stable at around 8,000 units, which played an important role in achieving the summer harvest of 9 years in the province. This year, the corn harvesting machinery market is still strong. In the first half of the year, the province has subsidized nearly 5,000 corn harvesting machines. It is expected to subsidize more than 10,000 corn harvesters in the whole year, and it is expected to achieve an outstanding achievement of breaking million sets for four consecutive years since 2008. The province's corn harvesting and production links will further improve quality and speed of development to provide strong equipment support.

Anti-drought agricultural machinery purchase momentum is rapid. Since the spring of this year, the drought conditions in our province have been severe, and the agricultural production is facing severe tests. Our province's agricultural machinery department has started the purchase subsidy for anti-drought agricultural machinery for the first time. The province has subsidized 20,000 pumps and sprayed irrigation equipment 3000 sets in the agricultural drought protection and seedling maintenance work. The role of the main force was played, and the ability of agricultural machinery to guarantee modern agricultural production was further enhanced.

Second, the advantages of conservation tillage gradually emerged, and the level of agricultural mechanization operations increased significantly. In the province's “Twelfth Five-Year Plan”, the mechanization of grain crops continues to increase, major breakthroughs have been made in the mechanization of key production sectors for key economic crops, and the overall development of mechanization of facility agriculture, animal husbandry, aquaculture, forestry, and agricultural products has been fully developed. Under the guidance of the target, in the first half of the year, the province is expected to complete an area of ​​12,121,000 hectares of farmland, 2,630 thousand hectares of aircraft, and 3,482 thousand hectares of machines, which is an increase of 45.2%, 14.3% and 5.2% respectively from the same period of last year.

The advantages of conservation tillage technology appear. Under unfavorable natural conditions of continuous drought in winter and spring, 800,000 hectares of mechanized no-tillage sowing conservation tillage wheat in the province has emerged seedlings, seedlings are full, seedlings are full and full, drought resistance and lodging resistance are strong, and the yield per mu is up. 466.5 kilograms, 36.2 kilograms more than the traditional cultivation and comparison field, the yield increase rate of 8.413%, the province's no-tillage sowing conservation cultivation of wheat increased by 433 million kilograms in total, in order to seize the province's summer grain "9 years increase" made a positive contribution.

The no-tillage sowing technique of maize is a frequent highlight. In recent years, the “one-stop” operation of wheat harvesting, straw return, and mechanized no-tillage sowing in our province has gradually become a bright spot for “Sanxia” agricultural production. In the first half of the year, corn planting area was 387.3 thousand hectares, which was nearly 30% lower than the same period of last year. The number of maize planters sowing was 26.2 million hectares, corn no-tillage sown area accounted for more than 85% of corn planting area, and corn planting level remained at 95. %the above.

The economic development of crop farming links has been rapid. In the first half of the year, our province focused on solving the mechanized development issues that hampered the key links in the production of key economic crops. With the reduction of corn farming by nearly 30%, the area under cultivation of crops still increased by 45.2%, mainly due to cash crops such as vegetables, cotton and potatoes. The area of ​​machine ploughing grew rapidly, more than twice as much as the same period of last year, which promoted the breakthrough and rapid development of the province's cash crop mechanization.

Third, the agricultural machinery training and maintenance services are impressive and the new peasant team is growing. In the first half of the year, the province's agricultural machinery department took the task of fostering and cultivating high-quality agricultural machinery talents as a strategic task, conscientiously implemented the training program for agricultural machinery and practical talents, actively carried out agricultural machinery technology propaganda and training work, and extensively carried out training for agricultural machine drivers. Skills training and technical training, the use of news media to promote mechanical deepening of the operating technology and protective cultivation of relevant technical knowledge, a total of 35.5 million people in various types of agricultural machinery and technical personnel training, to complete the training task of 3/5, an increase of 75%. The training of agricultural machinery has led to the creation of a large number of new farmers who understand the operation of agricultural machinery and are good at business management. It has become an effective way to improve the quality of agricultural laborers and ensured the technical clearance of agricultural machinery operators during the spring planting and cultivation and the production of agricultural machinery in the "Three Summers" period. The quality of operations was guaranteed and good results were received. Agricultural machinery departments throughout the country also used the slack season to guide the maintenance of farm machinery households, and maintained a total of 2.35 million agricultural machinery and tools, an increase of 46.2% year-on-year, ensuring the safe production of farm machinery.