"space rice" attracts urban children, huairou little donkey farm opens "farming class" on-site
2024-10-04
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the national day holiday coincides with the autumn harvest season, and many urban tourists choose to go to huairou for a "micro vacation." a family drove a car to the foot of the mountain, stayed in a b&b next to the farmland, ate delicious food, and experienced the joy of harvesting rice.
october 3rd was a sunny day, and ms. su’s family set out from haidian early in the morning. my daughter liuliu, who just entered the first grade of junior high school this year, was particularly excited. she shared with her mother the "farming strategies" she had prepared early. the car sped north and headed straight to the manshan slow water·little donkey farm in qiaozi town, huairou. the farm's rice harvesting and threshing activities last throughout october, and the beginning of the national day holiday coincides with the maturity period of the new variety manshui no. 6 western rice introduction cultivated by the institute of crop science of the chinese academy of agricultural sciences. visitors can harvest rice here. the popular "space rice" not far away has also entered its best viewing period.
"i've seen rice threshing on tv." liuliu couldn't wait to put on his gloves and choose the sickle. under the explanation of the local farmer, she bent her waist, combed a large handful of rice ears with her left hand, held it tightly, stared at the sickle blade, and found the position 2 centimeters upward from the root. the sickle handle formed an angle of 45 degrees with the ground. "hey!" liuliu cut hard, and the rice stalks were neatly cut open. holding it in my hand was filled with a sense of gain, and the ears of rice bent by the rice swayed. the mother at the side, ms. su, quickly raised her mobile phone to take a photo of her daughter's harvest. when they came to the grain box, there was no need for too much explanation. liuliu relied on the knowledge he learned online and threw the rice ears heavily against the inner wall of the wooden box. the crackling sound of the rice falling off after impact was clear and loud. "the child's posture is standard and he is very energetic. he is really good at farm work." the farmer beside him laughed heartily.
"to be honest, i don't even know how to harvest rice. today, a child has become a teacher and i have become a student." ms. su was recording the happy scene while talking to the reporter, "and this 'space rice' , we came here because of the reputation, and the experts gave the children agricultural knowledge on site, which was a very valuable learning opportunity.”
compared with the various varieties of rice that are endless as far as the eye can see, the "space rice" test field is more exquisite, and it also "fascinates" ms. su's family. three types of space-bred rice, including space "xiaowei" yellow rice, space "xiaowei" nip, and space "xiaowei" rice 9311, are planted on 1 acre of land, as well as five other new rice varieties. qian qian, an academician of the chinese academy of sciences and deputy director of the yazhou bay national laboratory, led a breeding team to complete the seedling cultivation of "space rice", and the seedlings were transplanted in the experimental field of the little donkey farm this summer.
"space rice" is now thriving in the experimental field. why did it come to huairou?
shi ning, the manager of manshan manshui·little donkey farm, introduced to everyone that as early as july 2022, the wentian experimental module of the china space station was docked with the tianhe core module assembly, and the wentian experimental module carried the "space express" to the sky. "among them, there is a dwarf rice variety specially bred by the chinese academy of agricultural sciences - "xiaowei". in the process of building huairou science city, little donkey farm has continuously strengthened its relationship with the chinese academy of sciences, and has been designated as the "academy of agricultural sciences new and excellent crop planting demonstration base" by the crop institute of the chinese academy of agricultural sciences and the school of modern agriculture of the chinese academy of agricultural sciences. , the field classroom demonstration base of the institute of crop science of the chinese academy of agricultural sciences, the social practice farming science popularization activity base of the school of modern agricultural sciences of the university of chinese academy of sciences, "space rice" and a series of new crop demonstration planting sites with full of scientific and technological styles have also been selected. this.
at present, the "space rice" is ready for harvesting and is expected to be harvested on-site by professionals from the chinese academy of agricultural sciences in mid-october.
on the eve of the national day, as rice enters the harvest season, huairou also held a celebration event at the main venue of the 2024 chinese farmers' harvest festival in beijing. huairou chestnuts, watermelon plums, tanghe sweet potatoes and other special agricultural products from huairou's 14 towns and villages were on-site. more than 100 agricultural business entities participated in the exhibition, making it a shopping destination for many citizens and tourists.
"leveraging on the popularity of cultural tourism during the harvest festival, on the first day of national day alone, more than 70 families came to little donkey farm to participate in our 'farming class'. this year, many scientific researchers from the university of chinese academy of sciences also came from time to time. we serve as a science popularizer here." shi ning told reporters that the farm is currently building a planting base for the high-quality development of the vegetable industry, an industry-university-research training base, and developing characteristic and efficient agriculture and ecological tourism agriculture. "we hope that through our efforts, we can further bring together scientific innovation and wisdom to promote agricultural and rural modernization."
source: beijing daily client
reporter: zhang jiaqi, gannan
