"Eleventh Five-Year" Significant Improvement in Agricultural Mechanization Equipment in Gansu Province

During the “Eleventh Five-Year Plan” period, the strength of agricultural equipment in Gansu Province continued to increase, and the province’s total agricultural machinery power went up to four steps successively. The degree of agricultural mechanization continued to increase, and the province’s comprehensive mechanization level for cultivation and harvesting had successively climbed five steps; agricultural production methods From the "two cattle bar" to mechanized farming, to promote the transformation of traditional agriculture in our province to modern agriculture.

In the past five years, the province’s investment in agricultural mechanization has increased substantially. Central and provincial financial arrangements have allocated 680 million yuan in subsidy for agricultural machinery purchases, stimulating farmers’ direct investment of 1.3 billion yuan, purchasing over 282,000 agricultural machinery and equipment, and 24.4 per cent of farmers enjoying subsidy. Ten thousand households. This is the historical period during which agricultural mechanization investment has been growing fastest and investing most since the reform and opening up. It has injected strong policy thrusts for the development of agricultural mechanization in the province, and has enabled the popularization and application of a large number of high-performance, advanced and applicable agricultural machinery. Our province has continuously optimized the structure of agricultural machinery and equipment and expanded the field of agricultural mechanization. The total amount of agricultural machinery in the province has increased significantly. The province’s total agricultural machinery has taken four steps of 15 million, 16 million, 18 million and 19 million kilowatts, and the total agricultural machinery The value increased from 9 billion yuan to 12.4 billion yuan, and the total amount was 1.4 times that of the "10th Five-Year Plan" period, effectively improving the conditions for agricultural production.

The province focuses on strategic leading industries, regionally advantageous industries, and local featured industries to carry out agricultural mechanization technology and equipment supporting follow-up, implement food crop production, characteristic industry production and mechanization of grass animal husbandry, and strive to improve agricultural mechanization service support capabilities. The comprehensive mechanization level of machine farming, machine seeding, and machine harvesting in the province has climbed to 28%, 29%, 30%, 32%, and 34%. The average annual increase rate is 1.4%, which has improved the level of agricultural industrialization. Based on the farmers' wishes and needs, they developed a new type of agricultural machinery, formed a batch of dry farming machinery technology systems and implement systems with Gansu characteristics, promoted and applied conservation tillage, full-film double-furrow planting, efficient irrigation and water-saving in irrigation areas, and comprehensive utilization of crop straws. Waste film picks up new mechanized technologies such as recycling. The potato harvesting and corn harvesting achieved a breakthrough. By 2010, the potato harvesting area by mechanical mechanization will reach 2.59 million mu, accounting for 25.9% of the total sown area in the province, and the corn harvest area will reach 59.5 million mu; the acceleration of mechanization of agricultural facilities will be accelerated in the province. 37.8% multi-span greenhouses are equipped with automatic shutters.