Nearly 60 million mu of wheat harvested in Shandong

On the morning of June 2nd, in Daliuzhuang Village, Cao County, Shandong Province, with the introduction of more than 10 wheat combine harvesters into the golden wheat fields, the harvesting work for the three summer wheat crops in the province was fully carried out.
As the country's second largest wheat production area, Shandong has nearly 60 million mu of wheat harvested this year, including 40 million mu of high-quality wheat and 700,000 mu of wheat, accounting for 78% of the country's new area. The total output is expected to be the highest in the past eight years, which will reach 39.4 billion kilograms, an increase of 1.9 billion kilograms over the previous year, accounting for 36% of the country's summer grain increase, and a yield of 780 kilograms per mu, an increase of 28 pounds over the previous year, an increase of 3.7%. The agricultural department stated that if there is no major natural disaster in the near future, the wheat harvest in Shandong is a foregone conclusion.
In order to ensure that the whole province harvests wheat in a timely manner, the Shandong Provincial Agricultural Machinery Department has strengthened cooperation with transportation, public security, petroleum, and meteorological departments, and expanded the “green channel” for cross-regional operations to ensure the supply of oil for agricultural machinery operations. We launched various mobile phone short message services, maintained cross-district operational order, and strengthened agricultural machinery support services to effectively improve various ancillary services. In recent days, more than 51,000 "priority refueling cards" have begun to be issued to hand-operators, and 30,000 cross-district agricultural operation permits and 350 free permits for cross-regional operation of technical service vehicles for agricultural machinery have also been issued.
At present, Shandong wheat enters the harvest period from west to east. With the return of a large number of agricultural machines to the south, the harvest of Shandong summer grain will enter a peak period in the next few days. More than 2,000 wheat harvesting and interregional teams in the province have started operations until June. On the afternoon of the 3rd, a total of more than 20,000 wheat combine harvesters were harvested, harvesting 1.12 million mu of wheat. It is reported that during the wheat harvest this year, Shandong Province will organize more than 1.8 million agricultural machinery to go into battle, including 120,000 wheat combine harvesters (including the introduction of other provincial machinery), 80,000 units to participate in cross-region operations, and it is expected that wheat will be distributed throughout the province in mid-late June. The machine harvest is basically over. The wheat machine yield can reach above 95%.

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