On the Loess Plateau, potato cultivation is full of "science and technology"

Dingxi City, Gansu Province has selected 68 science and technology commissioners for the potato industry chain
.
The science and technology commissioners devoted themselves to the research and promotion of advanced applicable technologies such as rapid multiplication of detoxified seed potatoes, full-process mechanized planting, and intensive processing, vigorously promoted the high-quality development of the whole potato industry chain, and contributed scientific and technological strength
to building the "Chinese Potato Capital".

——Wu Jianzhong, Deputy Director of Science and Technology Bureau of Dingxi City, Gansu Province

In October, in Wuzhu Town, a shallow mountainous area in the southwest of Weiyuan County, Dingxi City, Gansu Province, picturesque original potato seed potato seeds grew gratifyingly
.

"We used different microbial agents and microbial fertilizers in different varieties of potato pilot fields, and carried out tests
in terms of test protocol, dosage, variety yield and so on.
" Du Honghui, science and technology commissioner of Gansu Tiandi Agricultural Science and Technology Co.
, Ltd.
(hereinafter referred to as Field Agriculture), an enterprise in Gansu Dingxi Agricultural Science and Technology Park, is leading a team to carry out soil-borne disease prevention and control experiments in the potato seed potato field in Wuzhu Town
.

The reporter learned that in recent years, Dingxi City, Gansu Province has attached great importance to the work of science and technology commissioners, and issued a series of documents such as the "Implementation Opinions on Sending Science and Technology Commissioners Service Corps to Promote Precise Poverty Alleviation" to fully implement the "11151" project
.
A team of science and technology commissioners wrote papers on the Loess Plateau, sent science and technology to the fields, drove enterprise R&D and innovation, and became a scientific and technological iron army
serving rural revitalization.

The Loess Plateau has been built as a national agricultural science and technology park

Field agriculture is an enterprise in Gansu Dingxi Agricultural Science and Technology Park, and Gansu Dingxi Agricultural Science and Technology Park is a platform
for innovation and entrepreneurship of science and technology commissioners.
In August 2001, Gansu Dingxi National Agricultural Science and Technology Park became one of the first 21 national agricultural science and technology parks in China, and built a national science and technology commissioner entrepreneurship base and a national star innovation world with the park as the carrier
.

With the platform of innovation and entrepreneurship, Du Honghui also has a stage to display his talents, and he knows that seed potatoes are the "chip"
of the development of the potato industry.
Therefore, Du Honghui carried out potato seed potato breeding, cultivation technology research, technical guidance and services
.

In 2016, Dingxi City introduced the original potato "hydroponic" and "fog cultivation" production technology for the first time from the Asia-Pacific Center of the International Potato Center, and Du Honghui led the team to carry out technical research and demonstration tests, and built a potato fog cultivation production line of 3,000 square meters
.

"In the 'fog cultivation' environment, the yield of raw seed potatoes can be increased from 4 to 5 grains per plant to more than
35 grains per plant.
" Li Xiaomei, chairman of Field Agriculture, said that the "fog cultivation" technology has greatly reduced the cost of detoxified seed potatoes, helped to eliminate soil-borne diseases, and improved the yield and quality
of original seeds.

"Now the 'fog cultivation' technology is very mature, and at present, we use the most advanced off-ground cultivation technology
.
" In order to further optimize and improve the efficiency of off-site cultivation of original potato seeds, Du Honghui's team screened out nutrient solution formulas suitable for different stages of off-ground cultivation of original potato seedlings, potato setting and expansion stages in cold and humid areas, and obtained 4 national utility model patents
.

Du Honghui, who has been running in the fields for many years, has now become a "soil expert" and "science and technology star"
in the eyes of the villagers.
He served as the station manager of the potato science and technology commissioner workstation in Weiyuan County, led the team to introduce more than 70 new potato varieties, helped enterprises and cooperatives build more than 6,000 mu of potato seed potato standardization demonstration bases, trained more than 1,000 farmers and science and technology demonstration households, and trained 16 technical backbones
of enterprises.

In recent years, Gansu Dingxi National Agricultural Science and Technology Park has taken potatoes as the key leading industry, radiated to drive the city's potato seed potato industry to improve quality and efficiency, hatched 33 potato seed potato enterprises, with an annual output of more than 2 million tons of detoxified seed potatoes and more than 1 billion original seeds, and the rapid propagation technology of detoxified seed potatoes has reached the domestic first-class level
.

"Science and technology" has become a new engine for the transformation of characteristic enterprises

"In the past, potatoes were grown by manpower, labor-intensive, inefficient, costly and low-yield
.
" Shui Jianbing, science and technology commissioner of Gansu Dingxi Baiquan Potato Co.
, Ltd.
(hereinafter referred to as Baiquan Potato), said
.

In 2010, Shui Jianbing followed the delegation to Inner Mongolia, and on the wide plain, Shui Jianbing saw for the first time - Inner Mongolia potato mechanical ridge raising, mechanical mulching, mechanical mulching cultivation technology opened his eyes
.

"How nice it would be if we brought these machines into the company and grew our own potatoes!" Shui Jianbing put his thoughts into action
.
At that time, Baiquan potato scientific research funds were tight, and Shui Jianbing overcame various difficulties, went deep into various places to carry out investigation and research, and introduced a potato seeder
from Qingdao Agricultural Machinery Factory.

After that, Shui Jianbing led the company's technical personnel to introduce potato mechanical ridge raising, mulching, soil covering, drip irrigation cultivation technology and advanced equipment, and according to the reality of small plots and uneven plots in Dingxi, constantly adjusted the planting density, repeatedly improved the experiment, and finally summarized a mechanized high-yield and efficient cultivation technology integrating land leveling, ditching fertilization, ridge seeding, film mulching and harvesting, and applied for 3 utility model patents
.

"This technology saves an average of 7.
9 laborers per mu, increases production by 500-1000 kg, and increases net income by 90.
8%
.
" Pan Yuqin, chairman of Baiquan Potato, said, "The application of this technology has effectively improved the production efficiency
of the company's original potato breeding.
At the same time, the production level of seed potatoes has been raised to a new level
.
”

"The science and technology commissioner system is a new engine
for the innovation and development of enterprises.
" Pan Yuqin said that the potato breeding base of Baiquan potato has now developed to more than 5,000 mu, with an annual production of 30 million detoxified seedlings, 50 million original seeds, and more than 5,000 tons of original seeds, driving more than 1,000 surrounding farmers and making a demonstration model for the whole process of mechanized cultivation of Dingxi
potatoes.

Today, Dingxi has become one of the three main potato producing areas in China, the largest detoxified seed potato breeding base in China, an important commercial potato production base and potato product processing base in China, and the first batch of regional potato seed breeding bases
in China.

Scientific and technological innovation leads the development of potato staple food

In Gansu Potato Xiangyuan Agricultural Technology Co.
, Ltd.
(hereinafter referred to as Potato Xiangyuan Agriculture), Chairman Yang Xinjun is discussing the newly registered trademark logo with his colleagues
.

In 2012, Yang Xinjun of Dingxi Agricultural Technology Station founded Potato Xiangyuan Agriculture as a science and technology commissioner, and after 10 years of development, the company has developed into an agricultural industrialization enterprise
focusing on the processing, sales and planting of potato series products.

In order to seize the opportunity of the implementation of the national staple food strategy, the first phase of Potato Xiangyuan Agriculture invested 180 million yuan, introduced the international advanced complete set of potato whole flour production line equipment and potato raw material storage modified atmosphere storage equipment, and built an annual output of 10,000 tons of potato snowflake whole powder production line and 22,000 tons of potato raw material storage warehouse
.

At the same time, combined with the development direction of potato staple food industry, Potato Xiangyuan Agriculture has built a production line for potato solid beverage (mashed potato), potato crispiness and cookie biscuits, so as to enrich product categories, extend the potato industry chain, and improve the industrialization level
of enterprises.

"Add 20%-30% whole potato powder to different flavored biscuits, which is easy to eat, crispy and sweet, and rich
in nutrition.
" Yang Xinjun said
.

Since last year, two scientific research projects, "Creation and Application of Key Technology System for Potato Staple Food in Northwest Arid Region" and "Key Technology Innovation and Application of Potato Staple Food Variety Screening and Processing" have won the second and third prizes of Gansu Science and Technology Progress Award respectively
.

It is understood that Potato Xiangyuan Agriculture has undertaken the national key research and development plan of the Ministry of Science and Technology "Research and Demonstration of Technical Equipment and Model of Post-production Storage and Transportation Loss Reduction of Potatoes", the major science and technology project of Gansu Province "Research and Demonstration of Key Technologies for Screening and Processing of Potato Staple Food Varieties" and the special "Potato Snack Food Production and R&D Center" of the Modern Agricultural Industrial Park of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs
.
These scientific research projects will effectively extend the potato industry chain, realize the integrated development of "production and marketing" and "trade, industry and agriculture", and promote the efficiency of enterprises and farmers' income
.

In recent years, Dingxi City has taken project construction as the top priority to promote the work of science and technology commissioners, and has won 159 national and provincial science and technology projects (topics), and obtained 70.
38 million yuan of special science and technology funds; It organized 120 city-level science and technology plan projects and invested 10.
7 million yuan
in financial funds.

"Dingxi has selected 68 science and technology commissioners for the main body of the potato industry chain
.
The science and technology commissioners devoted themselves to the research and promotion of advanced applicable technologies such as rapid multiplication of detoxified seed potatoes, mechanized planting and intensive processing, vigorously promoted the high-quality development of the whole potato industry chain, and contributed scientific and technological strength
to the construction of 'China's potato capital'.
Wu Jianzhong, deputy director of the Dingxi Science and Technology Bureau, said
.
(Edited by Li Chuang)