Tian Ye Xin Yu | Continue to reduce the use of pesticides: large-scale drug use is an effective way

The "Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Comprehensively Promoting Rural Revitalization and Accelerating Agricultural and Rural Modernization" (ie the No.
1 Central Document of 2021) stated that by 2025, positive progress will be made in the green transformation of rural production and life>
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This year’s Central Document No.
1 proposes to continuously reduce the use of pesticides.
This is a scientific development and harmonious development based on the current problems facing China’s agricultural production
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Why continue to reduce? It is because it is used a lot
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The current pesticides are generally highly effective, but some farmers, especially the older farmers, do not follow the instructions when using them, but based on their own "experience": whether to use a bottle cap or a bottle cap, It's enough to ignore the half cap that says on the instructions
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In addition, the excessive use of pesticides by farmers is also related to their lack of arable land
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In a farmer’s home, the cultivated land is as little as 35 acres and no more than 10 acres
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When crops have insects and diseases, when farmers buy pesticides, whether in bottles or bags, it is often not the amount that farmers just need, so they will sell more
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Some pesticides are used once a year, and the opened pesticides are wasteful if they are not used up
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Some farmers simply use all of them .
In their opinion, using a bit more will not do much harm to crops
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If each farmer uses a little more, the excessive use of pesticides has become one of the problems of agricultural non-point source pollution and one of the reasons why the rural ecological environment is not ideal
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How to continuously reduce the use of pesticides? The answer can be found in this year's Central No.
1 document
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This year's Central Document No.
1 proposes to promote the construction of a modern agricultural management system
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Focus on the two types of business entities, family farms and farmer cooperatives, and encourage the development of various forms of moderately large-scale operations
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Implement the family farm cultivation plan to cultivate large-scale agricultural households into vigorous family farms
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Promote the improvement of the quality of farmer cooperatives and increase support for standardized farmer cooperatives
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Develop and expand specialized agricultural social service organizations, and introduce advanced and applicable varieties, inputs, technologies, and equipment to small farmers
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Support market entities to build a regional comprehensive service center for the entire agricultural industry chain
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Support leading enterprises in agricultural industrialization to innovate and develop, grow bigger and stronger
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Whether it is a family farm, a farmer’s cooperative, or a leading agricultural enterprise, they all have one characteristic in common, that is, scale
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The land they manage ranges from hundreds of acres to tens of thousands of acres
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They all have a common feature in the use of pesticides: scientific use of drugs and rational use of drugs
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The result of this is that the amount of pesticides used is less, but the control effect is better
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This result is inevitable.
Family farms, farmer cooperatives, leading agricultural enterprises, etc.
are all masters and users of advanced agricultural technology.
They know when and how much medicine should be used
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At this point, farmers who cultivate seven or eight acres of land are incomparable
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Regarding how to continuously reduce the use of pesticides on scattered lands cultivated by farmers, this year's Central Document No.
1 also pointed out a solution, that is, specialized agricultural social service organizations provide plant protection services for these farmers
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The reporter interviewed an agricultural plant protection company in 2020
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This company has modern spraying equipment and professional technicians.
The company sprays more than 300,000 mu of wheat and corn every year, and most of them spray sprays for scattered farmers
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The technicians of this company are on the farmer's field, keeping an eye on the occurrence of plant diseases and insect pests at any time, and finally administer the medicine accurately according to the condition of the insects and diseases
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This year’s Central Document No.
1 proposes to fully implement pesticide packaging recycling operations
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Now the vast majority of farmers are very conscious and take the packaging back after they have finished spraying the pesticides
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But to achieve recycling, farmers often have to run a few kilometers and hand it over to pesticide sellers
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In this case, some busy farmers don’t have the time to throw the pesticide packaging into the trash can as ordinary garbage.

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This is not the full recovery proposed in the No.
1 Central Document
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The agricultural plant protection companies that the reporter interviewed and learned about providing drug-fighting services to farmers have all taken pesticide packaging recovery actions
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They give wheat medicine once, and the recovered pesticide packaging can fill a tractor
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The result of this is that the complete recycling of pesticide packaging is truly realized
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Based on the scientific and rational use of crops, and the complete recycling of pesticide packaging, all localities should actively encourage and support social service organizations that provide services for crop protection, so that there will be a professional team to complete services such as spraying drugs for scattered farmers.
Realize precise medication in the large-scale medication, and continue to reduce the use of pesticides
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