People's Daily reporter Wang Ruihua

At 27 o'clock in the morning, Zhang Demu, who was checking the growth of seedlings, glanced at the thermometer scale, and saw that it had risen to 0 °C, and his first reaction was to open the skylight and ventilate and cool the greenhouse.

"Recently, the temperature has been high, and the seedlings are not hot, so we must control the temperature in time." As soon as the words fell, Lao Zhang took three steps and two steps, went straight to the outside of the greenhouse, pulled down the zipline one by one, and after a few minutes, the plastic film on the top of the greenhouse was rolled up.

Zhang Demu, who is 57 years old this year, is not young, but he is a good hand at farm work.

In the interview, the reporter learned that before returning to his hometown to farm, he had a lot of tosses, worked as a plumber, drove a mining car, and only returned to his hometown when he was 45 years old to deal with rice.

Lao Zhang's carefully cultivated regenerative rice seedlings. Photo by People's Daily reporter Wang Ruihua

老張是地道的廣德人，家住升平街道團山村戈村自然村。2014年，老張成立家庭農場，2019年，他又創辦了農機專業合作社。漸漸地，老張成了村裡頭的種糧大戶，面積從起初的百把畝，擴大到了今年的700多畝。

Although there is a lot of land, Lao Zhang is not worried, because in addition to himself, he also has a lot of "iron guys", and when he is busy with farming, he is better than anyone else.

Right now, the spring is warm, and the fields are busy.

In the spring ploughing production, Lao Zhang's various agricultural machinery have been "put on duty", which is naturally inseparable from the "hard work" behind him.

Lao Zhang said frankly, "Although I have a thin foundation and shallow experience, I can learn 'new agricultural technology' and grow grain with more confidence." This is not true at all, before the seedlings went to the field, Lao Zhang bought a drone again, waiting for fertilization to come in handy.

Time back to 8 years ago, when Lao Zhang farmed, relying on brute force, rolled up his trouser legs and carried a hoe, and plunged into the field, working all day.

"In the beginning, it was all about sowing rice seeds, which took labor, not to mention the seeds, and it took time." Lao Zhang recalled that agricultural machinery was introduced in 2017, and now all farming and harvesting are mechanized, and the most important thing is to save worry.

Lao Zhang checked the growth of seedlings in the seedling greenhouse. Photo by People's Daily reporter Wang Ruihua

Standing next to the newly acquired drone, Lao Zhang's eyes were full of "spoiling". He told reporters that now agricultural services such as rice seedling raising, planting, machine farming, machine harvesting, and drying can be done in one stop.

From manual transplanting to machine transplanting, from sowing to assembly line seedling raising, from manual fertilization to drone plant protection...... In Lao Zhang's view, the grain technology is updated and iterated quickly, and if you don't learn, you will fall behind.

At this time, Zhan Fuguo, captain of the Comprehensive Administrative Law Enforcement Brigade of Shengping Street, Guangde City, took over the conversation and said: "Take machine transplanting as an example, according to the shape of the field, plan the route in advance, and then accurately locate and plant, saving time and effort. ”

Skills are not pressing. Today's Lao Zhang, in the village, is a real "three good students", moving in the field, flying in the sky, and raising in the shed can learn, because he knows that only by mastering more "new farm tools" can he grow grain with half the effort.

Last year, Lao Zhang had a bumper harvest, and the yield of single-season rice exceeded 1200 catties, for which he also won the second prize of Guangde Agriculture and Rural Bureau to improve the yield and efficiency.

A seedling greenhouse covered with seedling trays. Photo by People's Daily reporter Wang Ruihua

“沒想到種田，還真種出了點名堂來。”提起獲獎的事，老張伸出手指給記者比劃道，“獎金足足2萬塊，這田，種得值!”

This word "value" is also reflected in the various agricultural subsidy policies enjoyed.

“小麥補貼100元/畝，代耕代種補貼10元/畝，農機補貼30%，就連新上的無人機也補貼了1萬多……這些都是實打實補到卡里。”詹伏國繼而補充說，農業政策好，農戶積極性高，糧食安全就能穩。

In recent years, the continuous introduction of favorable policies has also strengthened Lao Zhang's confidence in further expanding the scale of cultivation.

"I did make money from the ground, but I invested in it, built greenhouses, built factories, and bought agricultural machinery. Lao Zhang sighed that as long as people are not idle, the land is not empty, and the agricultural machinery does not stop, farming will also have a head.