Luntai County: Reserve seeds for disaster relief and famine preparation to ensure the safety of cotton production

In order to further strengthen the management of seed reserves for disaster relief and famine preparedness and effectively improve the cotton planting and disaster reduction capabilities of Luntai County, Luntai County actively implements the 2023 crop disaster relief and famine preparedness seed reserve project.

It is reported that the project has a subsidy of 600,000 yuan and reserves 200 tons of seeds of the cotton variety Xinluzao No. 80 (117 days of growth period) for disaster relief and famine preparedness, which are mainly used for self-rescue and famine preparedness in agricultural post-disaster production. Xinjiang Hongtai Seed Technology was entrusted Co., Ltd. carries out seed reserves for disaster relief and famine preparation in 2023.

Currently, the project has completed 209 tons of cotton seeds for disaster relief and famine preparedness. Lu Yang, the person in charge of Xinjiang Hongtai Seed Technology Co., Ltd. said: “After the completion of the project, the company strictly followed the “Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Disaster Relief and Famine Preparedness Reserve Management Measures” and conscientiously carried out the production, procurement, processing, storage and regular inspection of disaster relief and famine preparedness seeds. . In order to ensure thequality of the reserved seeds, we also entrusted a third-party authoritative organization to test the 209 tons of reserved seeds.”

Fang Cheng, deputy secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Director of the Luntai County Agricultural and Rural Affairs Bureau, said: “The seed reserve work for disaster relief and famine preparedness is mainly to respond to special and major natural disasters in agriculture, and to make adjustments to the surplus and shortage of agricultural production after disasters. It is also related to agriculture. production safety, increased farmers’ income and rural social stability. The 209 tons of early-maturing cotton seeds stored by Luntai County in 2023 will ensure that they can be put into use in time once the region is hit by a disaster, which can meet the seed demand of 130,000 acres of disaster-stricken cotton fields. Reduce the economic losses of farmers. In the next step, relevant personnel will be organized to conduct irregular sampling inspections and supervision inspections of reserved seeds to ensure the quality and safety of seeds during the reserve period.”

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