Sci and tech increase grain output
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- Category: Ningbo News
- Published: Tuesday, 27 November 2012 09:58
The 340 mus organic rice of Grain Cooperative of Shandeng village in Shangtian Town reaped a bumper harvest recently, and every kilogram of rice sold at a price of 50 yuan. The good news excited greatly Wang Fuqiang, who charges the Cooperative. He said that agricultural experts guided them to grow high-quality rice without chemical fertilizers and pesticides, and the rice sold well in the market.
Introducing technology talents to guide the development of high efficient agriculture is a key measure of Shangtian Town in recent years. The town introduced talents from colleges and research centers and carried out scientific and technological production, industrialized operation as well as brand management, transforming the traditional agricultural mode into a modern mode. Fenghua Aoji Agricultural Science and Technology Co., Ltd hired Lu Lizhi and Tao Zhengrrong, who are both livestock breeding researchers of Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, as its technical advisors and invested over five mln yuan to set up a private institution. Up till now, the institute has helped the company improve the production quantity and quality, attracting many experts from other countries like Germany and Japan.
Going global is another development of Shangtian high-efficient agriculture. As its strawberries win great reputation, some farmers began to grow strawberries in Pudong, Jiading of Shanghai. The planting area of Shangtian strawberries reached 3,200 mus, forming a pattern of large-scale growing and industrialized operation.
