"It's not the right weather this year!"

Shi Ruisheng, who has a thin physique, is a veteran of barley planting and one of the people in charge of the malting barley planting base in Longgu County. Look at 'Mao's line, Chinese, and net

At this time, he was frowning, and said to Qi Zheng with a solemn face.

"It's been a hot day this year, and it hasn't rained a decent rain for more than a month. The cooperative's planting base is said to be able to ensure basic water supply for barley thanks to the new sprinkler irrigation system, but other crops in the county have already begun to be affected by the drought. Shi Ruisheng said worriedly.

Although Shi Ruisheng's family's fields have been transferred to cooperatives and operated on a large scale, and now irrigation has been guaranteed to a certain extent, he is really not happy.

Since the beginning of early spring this year, most areas of Suzhou Province have been sunny, hot and rainless, and after summer, the central and southern parts of Suzhou Province have shown drought conditions of varying degrees.

Qi Zheng didn't dare to slack off, and followed Shi Ruisheng to the field to see what was going on.

On the co-op's plot, the sprinkler head is automatically watering, and the malting barley looks good and lush.

Farmers can only take the method of pumping irrigation to water the land to fight drought and save seedlings, but everyone has to water, and the wells in the field are insufficient. As a result, the barley seedlings in the fields were listless, and the corn planted showed yellowing of the branches and leaves.

When it came to the Gobi desert control base on the periphery, the situation was even more severe, the irrigation conditions here were far less than those in the old cultivated area, Qi Zheng saw that many of the planted sand willow saplings could not support it and died of thirst, and the rest were mostly half-dead.

Although Salix is drought tolerant, it will face such a severe test as soon as it lands and "settles down", and the survival rate is certainly not optimistic.

In fact, if we expand the scope to the whole province, we can see that the high temperature and lack of rain have led to the spread of drought, and crops have been affected by drought in large areas. See. Wool, Chinese net

Different from the "relatively calm" situation in Longgu County, the spread of drought has made people in many places "sit on pins and needles", and in some areas there are even temporary drinking water difficulties for people and animals, causing serious losses to the production and life of local people.

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From the perspective of physical geography, the Hexi Corridor is a very special area. The eastern monsoon region, the northwest arid region, the Qinghai-Tibet alpine region, and the three natural regions of China meet here.

The combination of different climatic and topographical conditions is destined to have many faces in the Hexi Corridor - here you can appreciate the arid and desolate western desert, you can also experience the "high cold" of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and you can also deeply feel the rhythmic change of seasons with the change of monsoon.

Such a multi-layered experience of nature is difficult to feel in other parts of China.

However, such a beautiful and colorful place is plagued by meteorological disasters, and drought is the main meteorological disaster in the region.

The per capita share of water resources in Suzhou Province is only 13 percent of the national per capita and nearly 18 percent of the world's per capita level, which is close to the international limit of severe water shortage.

The lack of self-produced water resources in arid and semi-arid areas, coupled with the over-exploitation of groundwater, seriously endangers the ecology and further exacerbates the drought.

Since the beginning of summer this year, the average temperature in Suzhou Province has been higher than that of the same period of the previous year, but at the same time, precipitation is scarce.

Many areas of Suzhou Province are mainly sandy land, and the high temperature and drought cause serious water shortage of vegetables, corn, potatoes and other crops planted, resulting in yellow or dry crops to die, vegetables and leaves to dry up, seedlings to dwarf and particles to dry up.

After the outbreak of this large-scale drought, the provincial authorities have sent teams to the hardest-hit counties to verify the disaster situation. At the same time, the provincial level 4 emergency response for natural disaster relief was launched, and the affected cities and prefectures were required to do relevant work in accordance with the plan.

But in the face of natural disasters, human power seems quite small. Even governments are limited in what they can do. The government can only "highlight key assistance and ensure the livelihood of the masses", that is, it can only provide assistance to the people's livelihood, such as providing emergency water supply and properly arranging the basic livelihood of the people affected by the disaster.

As for the drought resistance in agriculture, to put it mildly, it is basically resigned to fate.

"According to the analysis of the Northwest Regional Climate Center, it is expected that the average temperature in Suzhou Province in July will be slightly higher, and the rainfall will be less than 3~4 percent. As a result, the drought is likely to persist or even become more severe. Ding Xian reported the relevant information.

"At present, the most severe drought area is the central part of Su Province, which has not rained for two months, and except for the fields with irrigated conditions, the damage is relatively light, and the rest of the dry land can only be left to fate. Unfortunately, Longgu County is also roughly in this range. ”

"As far as I know, a small number of plots that have been particularly affected by drought are close to death. Ding Xian said.

After hearing this, Shi Ruisheng, a veteran farmer, prayed, "Hurry up and let it rain a little, don't let spring drought, early summer drought and drought ...... occur continuously."

Hearing this, Qi Zheng's eyelids jumped.

The spring drought is a drought from late April to mid-May, the early summer drought is from early to mid-June, and the low drought occurs from mid-July to mid-August.

Once the spring drought, early summer drought and drought occur continuously, that is, the drought lasts from spring to autumn, it is simply the most serious drought, and the failure to harvest will be the most common phenomenon, even in fields with good irrigation conditions such as the Jiagu malting barley planting base, a significant reduction in yield is inevitable.

But it has to be said that it seems that this is very likely to happen.

Now the crops are waiting for rain, the people are waiting for rain, and everything that has life is waiting for rain.

Qi Zheng was a little numb.

If it is good to be on the eastern coast, close to the sea, it is a big deal to work hard, and "adjust the rain" from the sea, which is a province in time, can at least alleviate part of the drought.

However, in this great northwest, the brother provinces and cities are all difficult to brother, with drought and little rain, large evaporation, and water shortage. He has the ability to "call the wind and call the rain", and he is stunned and has no way to start.

You can't "divert water" from the Yellow River.

Although the Yellow River passes through the central and southern parts of Su Province, just this year, the Yellow River suffered the most serious water shortage crisis since the founding of the People's Republic of China, and the amount of water coming in has decreased by more than 50 percent compared with the average of many years, which is the lowest number of years since the date of actual measurement. The problem of "guarding the Yellow River and lacking water to drink" is prominent.

In fact, the water resources of the Yellow River have been decreasing, and water shortage is the norm for the Yellow River.

In this case, if he "diverts water" from the Yellow River, Qi Zheng is really afraid that if he accidentally causes the Yellow River to break off, he will become a sinner.

In 97, the Yellow River had the longest intermittent period of 226 days, which attracted attention at home and abroad, and even became the focus of world public opinion, and also became a topic of discussion when foreign dignitaries visited. The interruption of the flow has not only become a serious socio-economic and ecological problem, but has also been raised to the height of the national image.

Therefore, unless it is absolutely necessary, Qi Zheng will not consider "diverting" the water of the Yellow River.

But at this time, Ding Xian's muttering attracted Qi Zheng's attention: "This thief is a bastard, he died of drought and waterlogging, and he died of waterlogging......"

Qi Zheng's eyes lit up, "Lao Ding, where do you mean that the waterlogging is dying?"

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