Journalists were informed by the academy of agricultural sciences of the autonomous region that the technological development report on the integrated use of salt lands in xinjiang, which had been prepared jointly by four institutions, including the xinjiang centre for the integrated use of salt lands, had been officially published to provide a systematic support for the precision management of the saltlands in xinjiang。
The report was described as a systematic recapitulation of xinjiang's saline distribution, a review of the history of xinjiang's saline management since the establishment of the new china, a summary of recent technological advances in the integrated use of xinjiang's saline since the 1455th and an analysis of typical cases, as well as recommendations on the development path for the integrated use of xinjiang saline in the coming period。
The report points out that xinjiang currently has over 100 million acres of arable land and that the area of saline arable land in the priority areas amounts to 3,428,000 acres, which is the most widely distributed area of the country, and that saline land management is a key issue for the quality development of xinjiang agriculture. In recent years, on the basis of large-scale practice, xinjiang has developed a series of technological combinations such as “dry-wet” and “drive-drain” salt. Through the synergy of “engineered-agriculture-bio-ecological”, it has initially established an integrated use model for land-based salinization, the promotion of important improved saltland technologies, salt-resistant crop varieties and kits, and significant improvements in the region's salin management and cropland production capacity。
“xinjiang has become not only the country's most important commodity food, cotton, fruit and fodder production base, but also a model for the global use of salin agriculture in arid zones.” the director of the institute of agricultural resources and environment of the autonomous agricultural institute of the autonomous region, xu wanli, explained that, at the present time, xinjiang has completed the construction of four core demonstration areas for the integrated use of 1,000 acres of saline, a number of applications and products have been tested for dissemination, the quality of arable land in the demonstration areas has generally increased by two levels, and production of crops such as maize and cotton has increased by more than 20 per cent。
Suh wanry explained that, at present, with integrated measures such as water engineering, chemical improvement, bioregulation and so forth, xinjiang salin treatment has achieved significant results, but the issue of salin treatment remains long-lived, costly and repetitive, and requires innovative breakthroughs in governance thinking and models. In response, xinjiang scientists have proposed the development of salin-specific agriculture as a “key” to break down the difficulty of salinization, moving from “improvement of soil” to “utilizing specialty”, with the development of salin-specific agriculture as the core route, and achieving efficient use of salin-land resources while reducing development costs。
In conjunction with the technological development report on the integrated use of xinjiang saltlands, two sub-reports were published, the xinjiang saltlands specialized agricultural industry development report (standing rice, zabuchar rice) and the xinjiang salinized specialized agricultural industry development report (black fruit). These two sub-reports focus on specialty industrial development models that focus on the management of salin lands. They provide guidance on the appropriate cultivation patterns, quality improvement pathways and extension of the industrial chain for specialty crops such as hot rice, zabuchar rice and black fruit, and focus on “smally, small, special, small” salin-specific product systems to achieve two-way capacity for governance and growth. (yo yi)
(chang xinhui, yang jie)
