When is Nantong’s high-standard farmland expected to be put into use?

The plan for the year starts with spring, and spring plowing and production is the right time. Land improvement, canal digging, and mechanical plowing road maintenance are all part of the city's 63 high-standard farmland construction projects. Comprehensive multi-site and multi-faceted construction is expected to be completed at the end of May and put into use in early to mid-June.

In the past few days, in order to seize the golden period of farmland construction projects and ensure spring plowing and irrigation, agricultural and rural departments in various regions have actively planned, taken initiative, and provided field guidance to comprehensively accelerate the construction of high-standard farmland projects in the city. At the high-standard farmland construction site in Shuangdun Village, Shizong Town, Tongzhou District, bulldozers shuttle back and forth, and more than a dozen workers are building cement roads for high-standard farmland. "This is the construction site of our town's high-standard farmland mechanical plowing road. The supporting cement road is three meters wide and 15 centimeters thick, which can basically meet the traffic needs of all machinery and pedestrians in the nearby farmland in the future. At present, the construction unit has increased its manpower and material resources, it can basically be completed by the end of April. "Wu Peng, agricultural assistant of the Shizong Town Agricultural Service Center, said that the project is divided into two bid sections, and the construction of high-standard farmland is about 2,800 acres. The main content includes 12 kilometers of cement roads and 350 acres of flat land. acres, 7.5 kilometers of ecological drainage ditches and supporting facilities such as drainage channels. At present, the entire project is proceeding in an orderly manner.

The construction of high-standard farmland is a key measure to ensure national food security. This year, our city has 63 high-standard farmland projects under construction, with a construction area of ??409,000 acres. Affected by the COVID-19 epidemic, project construction in various places has been forced to suspend work. However, the farming season waits for no one. Faced with the contradiction between epidemic prevention and control and project resumption, in order to ensure that the farming season is not missed, our city's agricultural department has prepared for rainy days, planned early, deployed early, and implemented early. On the one hand, guidance was issued in a timely manner. On February 10, our city issued the "Guidance for the Resumption of Work of Agricultural Business Entities in Nantong City", which clarified the conditions required for resumption of work and the prevention and control measures after resumption of work, requiring all localities to fully complete the work before the end of February. Resumption of work to ensure full completion of construction tasks by the end of May. On the other hand, during the critical period of epidemic prevention and control, the Municipal Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau implements weekly scheduling of the city's high-standard farmland construction resumption status, timely grasps the preparations for resumption of work in various regions, and guides various regions to make preparations and procedures for resumption of work. In addition, the agricultural departments at the city and county levels have increased supervision and guidance, and have gone deep into the front lines of project areas with slow progress to investigate and understand implementation difficulties and problems, and at the same time further strengthened safety, quality and progress supervision. Through the joint efforts of many parties, all high-standard farmland projects under construction in the city took the lead in fully resuming work in the province.

“In order to make up for the time lost due to the epidemic, construction sections in various places are operating at full capacity, and construction is carried out at multiple points and aspects to ensure that all water conservancy and irrigation facilities are in place before rice planting, so as not to delay summer sowing. "The relevant person in charge of the Municipal Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau said. As of the end of March, the city's high-standard farmland project construction progress reached 80%, and it is expected to be fully completed by the end of May and put into use in early to mid-June.

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