After attending the reception banquet hosted by Deputy Secretary Li, Wu Hao and the others were immediately arranged to rest in a hotel.
Of course, the conditions of the hotel are definitely not as good as those in Urumqi. But in a place like this with tens of thousands of people, it is already good to have this condition. At least it's clean and comfortable, no different from an ordinary business standard room.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, Wu Hao and his party, led by the personnel arranged by Deputy Secretary Li, began to visit the farm near Tiemen.
After a round of inspection, what they saw was really fruitful for them. One is the traditional agricultural method, which is actually the first few farms developed and constructed.
Basically, you plant trees in the desert first and divide the desert into areas. When the trees survive and grow, they will also play the role of windbreak and sand fixation.
This enclosed area is planted with crops such as wheat, corn, soybeans, sorghum, and cotton.
This is also the most commonly used method in farms throughout Western Xinjiang, which is dominated by this type of large-area extensive agriculture. In fact, this is also in line with the actual situation in desert areas. After all, intensive farming is difficult to achieve in such a harsh environment.
The second type is large-scale sprinkler irrigation agricultural technology developed over the past ten or twenty years.
Large-scale sprinkler irrigation agriculture actually uses sprinkler irrigation technology to replenish water for crops planted in the dry and barren sandy soil of deserts. Moreover, these sprinkler irrigation pipes can also be used to continuously provide fertilizers or insecticides and pesticides for these crops.
There are many types of sprinkler irrigation technologies. In addition to the common shower sprinkler irrigation methods, there are actually grid overhead sprinkler irrigation technologies and center pivot sprinkler irrigation technologies.
When we fly, we often see very regular circular oases in the western desert. This is the result of the large center pivot sprinkler irrigation technology.
Although sprinkler irrigation technology saves a lot of water compared to traditional canal irrigation, it still has its own shortcomings.
For example, sprinkler irrigation can only spray water and fertilizer onto the surface of crops, but desert areas are relatively arid, with high temperatures and high evaporation. The water sprayed onto the surface is easily evaporated, making it difficult to moisturize crop roots.
Especially in an arid environment like the desert, every drop of water is hard-won. Therefore, how to use water sources more efficiently for irrigation has become a topic that everyone is studying.
In the 1950s and 1960s, Israel, a newly founded nation, faced a serious food crisis. In order to avoid long-term dependence on imports and possible food famine, Israel spent huge sums of money to complete the 145-kilometer-long "North-South Water Diversion" water pipeline in 11 years.
However, traditional irrigation has slowed progress in agricultural technology and desert transformation. At that time, most of Israel's territory was desert area, so water was the lifeblood of transforming the desert.
But in such an arid desert area, water resources are very tight. People's daily water supply is not guaranteed, let alone water used for production and agriculture.
It wasn't until the 1960s that a farmer accidentally discovered that the crops in a leaky water pipe looked particularly good. Water penetration into the soil at the same point is the most effective way to increase cooling, efficient irrigation, and control of water, fertilizers, and pesticides.
This discovery immediately received strong support from the government, and the world-famous Netafim Drip Irrigation Company came into being.
After the invention of drip irrigation, Israel's total agricultural water consumption has remained stable at 1.3 billion cubic meters for 30 years, while agricultural production has increased fivefold.
Our country has actually introduced this set of drip irrigation technology very early, and based on our actual situation, we have also made relevant improvements and optimizations, and have made innovative developments on the original technology.
It can be said that our country is not weaker than other countries in the world in terms of drip irrigation technology.
The special environment of Western Xinjiang has also allowed drip irrigation technology to take root and develop here. Based on actual conditions, a set of fully automatic dripper technology that is leading in the world has been developed here.
In the imagination of many people, drip irrigation technology may be simple after all. In fact, it is very simple, just poke some small holes in the thin pipe, and then let the water in the pipe drip onto the roots of the crops.
It seems so simple, but in fact it is very complicated to allow water to drip into each plant in a balanced manner. You must know that the length of a water pipe is different, and the water pressure in each part of the water pipe is also different, so the amount of dripping water in the small hole is also different.
In order to maintain consistent water output in all parts of the water pipe, it is necessary to conduct a large number of R&D tests on hard and corroded plastic pipes, connectors, filters, controllers and other functional modules to ensure that they can meet the design and use requirements.
Today, dropper technology has become automated and intelligent. The computer automatically detects the soil moisture of the crop roots and then adjusts the water output. It can also regularly penetrate water containing fertilizers and pesticides into the roots of plants.
The successful application and development of this technology can not only save water resources, but is even more important in arid desert areas.
Moreover, this technology can also be used to replant vegetation and crops in the already barren desert, which can not only repair the damaged ecological environment, but also produce more agricultural and sideline products. Helping these poor areas solve the food crisis and even revitalize the local economy.
After this round of inspection and visit, Wu Hao, Xu Xiaoya and others were eye-opening, and even changed many of their previous stereotypes about this area.
For example, they naively thought that desert areas must be barren and barren. But when I got here, I realized that there was such a vibrant place deep in the desert.
For another example, they previously thought that most desert areas like Western Xinjiang were lacking in products. In the past, their understanding of this place was limited to raisins, cantaloupe, and camels.
But this time, they really saw the rich products of Western Xinjiang here. In addition to the most basic crops mentioned earlier, what they did not expect was that rice was also grown in Western Xinjiang.
And it is said that the rice produced here is of excellent quality, comparable to Northeastern rice. In addition, there are sunflowers, hops, lavender, flax, tobacco leaves, medicinal materials, etc. The production and quality of upland cotton, long-staple cotton and colored cotton, sugar beets, oil crops, hops and tomato paste of the Corps rank first in the country's agricultural reclamation.
In addition, there are a large number of fruits. In addition to tropical fruits, fruits found in other places are available here. What you don’t find elsewhere, you can find here too, and the quality is better.
Not to mention some other characteristics of Xijiang, such as beef and mutton in Xijiang, which is the best beef and mutton producing area in the country.
As for whether it was the best for Wu Hao and others, they didn't know. Anyway, that's what the tour guide said. But judging from the few skewers, the lamb here is indeed delicious. Even a relatively self-controlled woman like Xu Xiaoya couldn't care less about her status as a female CEO in front of so many delicacies.
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