With the degeneration of Super Sanda No. 2 this year after leaving the East China Sea and turning into an extratropical cyclone, the Central Meteorological Observatory stopped numbering it, and many people in the industry talked about the drought in the south in an unexpected way, and the most talked about was Jiagu's super insight into the rice market.

However, few people have noticed that even in the same affected area, the grain planting base of the Jiagu system has recovered faster and better than ordinary arable land.

For example, in the Jianghan Plain, where Qi Zheng visited, the rice planting base of the Jiagu Agricultural Cooperative was effectively irrigated in the year of the great drought because of the comprehensive transformation of farmland. After the heavy rain, the smell of rice is even more fragrant, and in the cement canals in the irrigation area, clear water is flowing quietly.

In the irrigation areas of neighboring counties, there was a lack of management of water conservancy facilities in farmland, and the channels leaked and silted, resulting in a serious shortage of water during the previous drought; after several days of heavy rains, some paddy fields again appeared "drought turned to waterlogging," and the rice turned yellow.

"With a drainage and irrigation system, farmland can be irrigated by drought and drained by waterlogging. Xie Kaiji of Jiagu Agriculture, who was pulled over by Qi Zheng, had already seen it.

In the endless farmland, golden waves of wheat or rice ripple in the breeze, and everyone loves to see the harvest scene. However, a large part of this beautiful scene depends on the abundance of water, or in other words, on the improvement of farmland water conservancy facilities.

As a large agricultural country in development, we have a large number of people and little land, a shortage of water resources, uneven distribution of precipitation in time and space, and a mismatch between water and land resources. But we can solve the food problem of 21% of the world's population with 6% of the world's freshwater resources and 9% of the world's arable land...... From this set of figures, we can also see how important the construction of farmland and water conservancy plays in China's agricultural development.

"There is a lot of farmland that will join our cooperative this year. As he spoke, Qi Zheng pointed to the irrigation district of the neighboring county and asked, "Is our farmland water conservancy renovation budget sufficient?"

Don't blame Qi Zheng for not knowing the specifics. Today's Qi Zheng has basically detached himself from the specific business of the group, but focuses on strategic decision-making. First, there is Wang Yuye at the helm, and second, a giant with a revenue of hundreds of billions of yuan, if the boss will do everything himself, the end will not be much better than Zhuge Liang.

Of course, for key projects, Qi Zheng is also focusing on them. But to talk about the specific details, Qi Zheng has to find the relevant person in charge.

I saw Xie Kaiji grinning: "That's enough! I'll just say that at the beginning of this year, in the ninth central No. 1 document that locked the 'three rurals', the word 'water conservancy' became the key word......

In this year's No. 1 document, it is clearly required that "10% of the land transfer fee shall be withdrawn for farmland water conservancy construction". According to the land transfer data released by the Ministry of Land and Resources, this "10%" should be 270 billion yuan.

What does this mean?

Last year, China's investment in farmland and water conservancy infrastructure was 113.915 billion yuan, and 270 billion yuan means that this year's investment will be doubled.

"Although it is said that even if it is doubled, it will not be able to meet the gap in China's water conservancy construction in the short term. Xie Kaiji said: "The country's current farmland water conservancy arrears are too serious, even if the annual investment can reach 300 billion, it will take more than 10 years to build the entire farmland water conservancy system and solve China's food security and water security problems." ”

Qi Zheng listened very carefully.

"However, the focus of this farmland water conservancy construction is to solve the problem of the last kilometer - small farmland water conservancy, which saves our company a lot of trouble in the transformation of small farmland water conservancy......

"Oh?"

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Jianghan Plain, Yutian Village in the adjacent county irrigation area.

"Farmland water conservancy projects mainly rely on 'eating the old capital'. At the drainage and irrigation station at the head of the village, Lao Liu, a villager in his sixties, pointed to the old and new irrigation equipment of different colors and said to Qi Zheng and Xie Kaiji, who came to find out: "The pump was replaced last year, and the motor has long passed its service life, but because there is no money to replace it, it has been running sick." ”

Although it only takes about 30,000 yuan to replace the motor, the village has held many villager meetings and discussed dozens of times, but it has never been successful because it is difficult to unify opinions. Therefore, whenever there is a need to fight the drought, a meeting is held to pool money to replace the parts that are really unusable. Lao Liu said helplessly.

Qi Zheng glanced at Xie Kaiji, he was used to it, and even had a bit of a "this is not bad" attitude.

Obviously, these problems are not the scenery of one place, nor are they the cold of one day.

In the more than 30 years since reform and opening up, the state has gradually increased the construction of agricultural water conservancy, but about 60 percent of the financial funds for supporting agriculture are mainly used for the harnessing of major rivers and the development of meteorological undertakings, while only about 40 percent are directly used for agricultural production expenditures. Among them, the cost of water conservancy construction and soil and water conservation work on small-scale farmland is even more negligible.

Compared with the national key water conservancy projects, the supporting "small farmer water" - small water conservancy facilities such as mountain ponds, canals, dams, etc., are mostly like the present, running with diseases, and the fate is worrying, blocking the "last mile" of farmland irrigation, making it difficult for the harvest water to flow to the fields.

Outside the village, villager Lao Liu pointed to the canal that had been in disrepair for a long time and said: "The current channel is like a sieve, and the water from the reservoir is released and flows through less than a kilometer, and it has all leaked out." The so-called 'amplifying water in the upper reaches and not getting wet in the downstream' has led to the sowing time in our village being half a month later than that of other villages every season, and the yield has to be discounted by 20%. ”

Xie Kaiji took a closer look and said quite experiencedly: "This canal is already old, and it must be all treated with concrete seepage prevention and hardening before it can be restored......

The problem is that it takes a lot of money to carry out the impermeable hardening treatment.

In the past, the state did not pay enough attention to "small farmer water", and old farmers like Lao Liu were also powerless.

"Na, an acre of paddy field produces about 450 kilograms of grain in a single season, excluding seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, machine cultivators, etc., in a year when the wind and rain are smooth, there may be a net income of about 200 yuan a year, but if there is a drought year, you may have to lose hundreds of yuan in fertilizers, seeds and pesticides......" Lao Liu calculated an account for the two on the spot, "Now farming is not cost-effective, who is willing to pay money to repair farmland and water conservancy?"

Therefore, they are willing to join the Jiagu Agricultural Cooperative, hoping to plant better rice varieties under the guidance of Jiagu, reduce costs and increase income per mu.

Qi Zheng and Xie Kaiji looked at each other and smiled when they heard this.

Xie Kaiji turned his head to Lao Liu and said, "Joining our cooperative, these are not a problem. ”

"Take the construction of water conservancy on small farmland as an example, we in Jiagu cooperate with many local governments, cooperate with the use of special funds from the central government, take the road of centralized and contiguous construction, and promote it as a whole, and build a piece of ......."

Although a large amount of money is invested, it will only be one or two million yuan per county, just like "sprinkling a handful of pepper noodles and seeing nothing".

And government investment often has its own bias. Key agricultural enterprises such as Jiagu are suitable for not only being practitioners of agricultural intensification, but also managers and maintainers of farmland water conservancy projects, and it is naturally easy to get the tilt of relevant funds.

-- Over the past few years, Jiagu Agriculture has continued to build supporting facilities and renovated more than 2,000 small-scale irrigation areas, rebuilt or expanded more than 300 small-scale electromechanical drainage and irrigation projects, and constructed, renovated and repaired a number of 1,800-small irrigation projects......

Therefore, one day, the Chinese people suddenly discovered that our agriculture has increased production and income for more than ten consecutive years, our pork production has actually become the largest in the world, we have produced the most fruits and vegetables in the world, and we have produced more and better food with less water and other resources...... This is not something that someone patted their heads on in the dead of night, but the huge investment that the country has made for decades, and the continuous participation of pioneers like Jiagu who have made breakthroughs.

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After a general understanding of the current situation of agricultural water conservancy, Qi Zheng handed over the irrigation area of the neighboring county that was to join the Jiagu system to Xie Kaiji, and he himself selected a site in the Jianghan Plain and arranged a fourth-order "Five Bucket Cloud and Rain Array".

At this point, Qi Zheng breathed a sigh of relief.

Ten years of layout, like the domestic "three horizontal and five vertical" railway pattern, he initially established an alternative "four horizontal and two vertical" water conservancy system in China!

The "four horizontals" are connected by the "five buckets of clouds and rain": Sanjiang Plain-Songnen Plain, Huanghuaihai Plain-Guanzhong Basin-Hetao Plain, Taihu Plain-Poyang Lake Plain-Dongting Lake Plain-Jianghan Plain-Chengdu Plain, Pearl River Delta-Southwest Valley.

The "two verticals" are the "Tiangang Wuji Array" and the "Five Bucket Cloud and Rain Array" that are densely packed along the coast of the South China Sea, the East China Sea, the Yellow Sea, and the Bohai Sea; and the other is the "underground river channel" created by the "Blue Waves and Qinghua Array" that runs through Lake Baikal and the Hexi Corridor.

The "four horizontals" distribute water vapor through the "five clouds and rain arrays" so that the country will not have the embarrassing situation of "drought in the west and waterlogging in the east"; the "one vertical" along the coast will replenish water vapor to the interior while preventing major damage from typhoons; and the "one vertical" in the northwest will divert water from Lake Baikal, which alone accounts for 20 percent of the world's freshwater resources, to the northwest......

Not to mention, the drought in North China in 09, the drought in the southwest and heavy rain in the south in 10 years, and the drought in the south this year...... In China, which has not been affected by disasters for less than a year, the gap of 30 years in water conservancy construction has finally made the central government determined to improve the entire farmland water conservancy system, and also allowed Qi Zheng to accelerate the completion of the "strongest" protection of domestic agriculture.

This alternative "four horizontal and two vertical" water conservancy system basically covers the domestic agricultural production areas. The most important thing is that in the future, Qi Zheng can quickly activate the spirit array, and the response to climate disasters will be more efficient, rather than as before, when more than half of the disaster can be improved.

It can even be said that during the lifetime of Qi Zheng, there will be no large-scale drought and flood disasters in the country, and from now on, "the wind and rain will be smooth" will also become a normal situation.

As far as agricultural production is concerned, the wind and rain are smooth, can't we "do whatever we want"?

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