◇In March 2019, General Secretary Xi Jinping attended the deliberation of the Henan delegation at the Second Session of the 13th National People's Congress, and pointed out that "As a major agricultural province, Henan's agriculture, especially grain production, has a significant impact on the country." Henan is required to "give full play to its own advantages, grasp the core competitiveness of grain, extend the grain industry chain, enhance the value chain, build a supply chain, continuously improve the quality, efficiency and competitiveness of agriculture, and achieve the unity of food security and modern high-efficiency agriculture."

  ◇ Henan, located in the core position of the Huanghuai Plain, has a history of farming for thousands of years. The province's total grain output has exceeded 130 billion jin for eight consecutive years. Less than 6% of the arable land has produced nearly 10% of the country's grain. Among them, wheat production accounts for one-quarter of the country. It not only ensures the food problem of 100 million people, but also transfers more than 60 billion jin of raw grain and finished products every year. It is the "ballast stone" of national food security.

  ◇ In 2024, Henan's total summer grain output was 75.714 billion jin, ranking first in the country, and the annual total grain output was 134.4 billion jin, ranking second in the country. The province's total meat, eggs and milk production is 13.37 million tons, ranking third in the country, and the pig feeding volume exceeds 100 million, ranking first in the country.

  ◇ Henan produces 1/2 of the ham sausages, 1/3 of instant noodles, 1/4 of steamed buns, 3/5 of dumplings, 7/10 of dumplings, and 4/5 of hot and sour noodles in the country. It has basically built a modern grain industry system with a sound industrial chain, efficient value chain and complete supply chain with wheat, corn, rice, oil, etc. as the focus. It is accelerating the strategic transformation from "Central Plains Granary" to "Chinese Kitchen" and moving towards the goal of building a "world dining table".

  ◇ As of the end of 2024, Henan has built a total of 88.08 million mu of high-standard farmland, accounting for about 78% of the total area of ​​113 million mu of arable land in the province, accounting for about 88.8% of the total area of ​​99.15 million mu of permanent basic farmland in the province, and the grain disaster resistance and reduction capacity has been greatly improved.

  ◇ Data from the Henan Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs shows that the province currently has more than 200,000 professional farmers' cooperatives and more than 270,000 family farms; 127,000 agricultural social service organizations, and 228 million mu of agricultural production and custody service areas, of which 184 million mu of grain crops were served, accounting for 80.7%, and 16.12 million small farmers were served, providing strong guarantees for increasing grain production and farmers' income.

  Text | Reporter of "Outlook" News Weekly

  In May, the wheat in the Central Plains will soon turn from green to golden, nurturing hope for a bumper harvest.

  Henan, located in the core position of the Huanghuai Plain, has a history of farming for thousands of years. The province's total grain output has exceeded 130 billion jin for eight consecutive years. Less than 6% of the arable land has produced nearly 10% of the country's grain. Among them, wheat production accounts for one-quarter of the country. It not only ensures the food problem of 100 million people, but also transfers more than 60 billion jin of raw grain and finished products every year, which is the "ballast stone" of national food security.

  General Secretary Xi Jinping attaches great importance to food security and has repeatedly given instructions on Henan's food work. In March 2019, General Secretary Xi Jinping attended the deliberation of the Henan delegation at the Second Session of the 13th National People's Congress, and pointed out that "As a major agricultural province, Henan's agriculture, especially grain production, has a significant impact on the country." Henan is required to "give full play to its own advantages, grasp the core competitiveness of grain, extend the grain industry chain, enhance the value chain, build a supply chain, continuously improve the quality, efficiency and competitiveness of agriculture, and achieve the unity of food security and modern high-efficiency agriculture."

  In September 2019, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized during his inspection in Henan that we must solidly implement the rural revitalization strategy, actively promote agricultural supply-side structural reform, firmly grasp the core competitiveness of grain, continuously adjust and optimize the agricultural structure, deepen the high-quality grain project, focus on the protection of arable land and the improvement of land abilities, accelerate the construction of high-standard farmland, do a good job in grain market and circulation, actively and steadily promote land system reform, strengthen effective connection with the poverty alleviation strategy, and achieve the goal of a strong agricultural province in rural revitalization.

  Implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s instructions, Henan comprehensively consolidates the working mechanism of five-level secretaries to grasp food security, comprehensively strengthens the Party’s leadership over food security, and promotes the implementation of the Party and the government’s shared responsibility for food security. Henan Province has successively issued policy documents such as "Opinions on Adhering to the Isomorphism of Three Chains to Accelerate the High-Quality Development of the Grain Industry", "Henan Province's "14th Five-Year Plan for Rural Revitalization and Agricultural and Rural Modernization", "Opinions on Accelerating the High-Quality Development of Agricultural Construction of a Modern Agricultural Strong Province", "Henan High-Standard Farmland Construction Plan (2021-2030)", etc., with "storing grain in the land and storing grain in technology" as the core, taking agricultural supply-side structural reform as the main line, increasing the construction of high-standard farmland, promoting seed industry revitalization, taking scientific and technological innovation and institutional innovation as the driving force, adhering to the "three chains" isomorphism of the industrial chain, value chain, and supply chain, adhering to the "four modernizations" directions of greening, quality, characteristic, and branding, and comprehensively improving the quality, efficiency and competitiveness of the grain industry.

  In 2024, Henan's total summer grain output was 75.714 billion jin, ranking first in the country, and the annual total grain output was 134.4 billion jin, ranking second in the country. The province's total meat, eggs and milk production is 13.37 million tons, ranking third in the country, and the pig feeding volume exceeds 100 million, ranking first in the country.

  After years of hard work, Henan has built a number of nationally renowned leading grain and oil processing enterprises, greatly improving the supply capacity of green and high-quality grain and oil products. Henan has produced 1/2 of the ham sausages, 1/3 of instant noodles, 1/4 of steamed buns, 3/5 of dumplings, 7/10 of dumplings, and 4/5 of hot and sour noodles in the country. It has basically built a modern grain industry system with a sound industrial chain, efficient value chain and complete supply chain focusing on wheat, corn, rice, oil, etc., and is accelerating the strategic transformation from "Central Plains Granary" to "Chinese Kitchen" and moving towards the goal of building a "world dining table".

  In the wheat fields of Jiufen Farm in the Yellow Band District Farm in Henan Province, the farming machine operates a large harvester to harvest wheat (data photo) Photo by Li Jianan/This issue

  The integration of the "five good" consolidates the core competitiveness of grain

  In the endless wheat fields, farmers are busy irrigating and spraying medicine; in the laboratory, multiple varieties of wheat are growing vigorously, and the artificial climate room has achieved the "five ripenings a year" of wheat, greatly shortening the breeding cycle; above the wheat fields, drones controlled by full-time "flyers" are spraying pesticides... More than 7,000 years ago, the planting of millet, sorghum and rice appeared in Peiligang Village, Xinzheng City, Henan Province, and is known as the origin of Chinese agricultural civilization. Today, the Huanghuai Plain where it is located is still the core area of ​​my country's grain production.

  Henan has greatly improved yields on a large scale through the integration of fertile fields, good seeds, good laws, good opportunities and good systems, and has persisted in consolidating the core competitiveness of grain.

  88.08 million mu of high-standard farmland lays a solid foundation for a bumper harvest.

  Good fields are the "lifeline" of grain production. Affected by global climate warming, my country has experienced frequent extreme weather and disasters in recent years. Further improving farmland infrastructure conditions and continuously improving agricultural disaster prevention and mitigation capabilities have become the top priority in ensuring food security.

  Start the construction of high-standard farmland demonstration zones. In 2022, on the basis of high-standard farmland construction, Henan plans to invest 50 billion yuan in three years to build a 15 million mu high-standard farmland demonstration zone.

  A relevant person in charge of the Henan Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said that this round of high-standard farmland demonstration zone construction will be completed by the end of this year, achieving the construction goals of "three highs, one strong and one excellent" such as high-scale operation, high level of modern equipment and intelligence, high improvement of arable land fertility, strong disaster prevention and mitigation capabilities, and excellent agricultural product output quality.

  Vigorously promote water-saving irrigation and resolve the "food and water contradiction". In Anyang, Henan, Zhang Xianzhi, a big grain grower born in the 1990s, controls three "big figures" with a mobile phone, a 465-meter-long translational automatic sprinkler, and two pointer automatic sprinklers with a radius of 130 meters. The former covers an area of ​​about 300 acres, while the latter covers about 80 acres each.

  "Irrigation is so convenient now. The pointer-type sprinkler irrigation machine keeps turning day and night. It waters 80 acres of wheat in two days and two nights. The translational one can only water during the day and 300 acres in 5 days." Zhang Xianzhi said, "It saves about 30% of the water compared to the previous method of flooding."

  Henan is a severe water shortage province in the north, with per capita water resources less than 400 cubic meters, less than 1/5 of the national average. Stage droughts occur from time to time, and severe water shortage has become a "big variable" affecting stable grain production.

  In the construction of high-standard farmland, Henan vigorously promotes the construction of efficient water-saving irrigation projects such as low-pressure pipe irrigation, sprinkler irrigation, and micro-irrigation, and promotes the use of efficient water-saving irrigation models such as translating sprinkler irrigation machines, pointer irrigation machines, reel irrigation machines, and micro-spray belt irrigation in some high-standard farmland project areas. Improve drainage ditches, achieve the perfection of the field water-saving irrigation and drainage system, engineering supporting and full utilization, so that the irrigation guarantee rate reaches more than 80%, and significantly improve the disaster prevention and mitigation capacity. At present, Henan has developed efficient water-saving irrigation of 36.36 million mu.

  Build a digital and intelligent brain and promote scientific farming. In the high-standard farmland demonstration zone of Xinxiang Plain Demonstration Zone, not only are the roads, canals and wells built in an orderly manner, but there is also a pole on many fields called "smart joint pole". The pole is equipped with high-definition cameras, meteorological equipment, insecticide lamps, signal transceivers and other devices, and is also connected to the soil sensors in the ground, which can measure the temperature, humidity, pH and other information of three layers of soil at different depths.

  These information will be transmitted to the "Zhongyuan Agricultural Valley Digital Intelligent Brain". Through the calculation of the data large model, information such as meteorology, soil moisture, seedling conditions, disease and insect conditions will be sent to farmers.

  The "Central Plains Agricultural Valley" located in Xinxiang City is an agricultural science and technology innovation platform built by Henan. It is a comprehensive experimental field with breeding as the core, taking agricultural informatization and high-standard farmland construction. Data from more than 130 integrated poles, more than 10 monitoring stations and related satellites in Xinxiang City are continuously input into the "Zhongyuan Nonggu Digital Intelligence Brain", and the data has now exceeded 200 million.

  "This is an innovative move to use industrial Internet thinking to improve the level of agricultural informatization. We have four big data models such as weather, soil, fertility, and plant transpiration. They are still in training to gradually understand the relevant laws." Yin Yue, project manager of "Zhongyuan Agriculture Valley Digital Intelligence Brain", said. Henan has carried out exploration and experiments on informatization of high-standard farmland in many places, and with the help of big data, it has improved its early warning capabilities for meteorological disasters, diseases and pests.

  As of the end of 2024, Henan has built a total of 88.08 million mu of high-standard farmland, accounting for about 78% of the total area of ​​113 million mu of arable land in the province, and about 88.8% of the total area of ​​99.15 million mu of permanent basic farmland in the province. The ability of grain production to resist disasters has been greatly improved.

  Hold on to China's seeds and hold on to China's job.

  "Storing grain in the land and storing grain in technology", making good use of scientific and technological power make the land that has been cultivated for thousands of years a "smart field", and also firmly grasps the "chip" of agriculture - seeds in your own hands.

  Strengthen breeding research and build the "Central Plains Force" of China's seed industry. Build a seed industry innovation platform and implement seed industry innovation research. Relying on platforms such as Shennong Seed Laboratory and the National Biobreeding Industry Innovation Center, we gather high-end seed industry innovation resources at home and abroad to carry out breeding research. We have jointly built a breeding joint laboratory, experimental demonstration base, integrated industrial base, etc. with Wageningen University, Yazhouwan National Laboratory, Beijing Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences, etc. in the Netherlands.

  Carry out key technologies. Henan Province invested 100 million yuan to support Shennong Seed Laboratory in carrying out basic research on breeding. At present, Shennong Seed Laboratory has established 7 fixed R&D teams including wheat, corn, peanuts, sesame, soybeans, poultry, and gene editing technology, established 4 research bases, 2 pilot and result transformation bases, achieved a number of original scientific research results, created a number of high-quality new germplasms, and selected 82 new crop varieties.

  By creating an innovation ecosystem around the National Biobreeding Industry Innovation Center, Henan has gathered 58 innovation platforms at the provincial level and above, 53 seed R&D teams, attracted 82 seed companies such as Yulongping Biology and Yangling Qinfeng, and introduced 16 academicians from the two academies and 390 scientific research talents. The application of molecular markers, functional gene integration and other technologies has made breeding faster and more accurate, and more than 100 new varieties have been cultivated.

  Implement seed industry enterprises to support excellent results and strengthen the breeding ability of good seeds. After continuously overcoming difficulties, Zhang Jinpeng, a researcher at the Central Plains Research Center of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and the Institute of Crop Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, has cultivated a new wheat variety "Pu Bing 03". Using the distant hybridization technology, the high yield and disease resistance genes in wild plant ice grass are introduced into wheat, making the wheat varieties have the characteristics of high yield, stable yield and multiple resistance. It is the first new variety in my country to cross distant hybridization between wheat and ice grass.

  In October 2024, Henan Zhongyuan Nonggu Investment and Operation Co., Ltd. obtained the transfer of the new variety rights of "Pu Bing 03" for a price of 6.66 million yuan. Fan Yongsheng, general manager of Henan Zhongyuan Agriculture Gulf United Seed Co., Ltd., said, "This year it is planned to be promoted to about 25,000 mu of land, mainly seed fields; next year it is planned to be promoted to about 300,000 mu." This is also the first listed variety for the Central Plains Agricultural Science and Technology Achievements Transformation Trading Center, opening the door to the "hyperlink" between the breeding technology innovation chain and the industrial chain.

  At present, the coverage rate of crops in Henan Province exceeds 97%, and the contribution rate of good varieties to grain production exceeds 45%.

  Combine fertile fields, seeds, opportunities and methods with good systems to optimize the allocation efficiency of agricultural production factors.

  Henan is a major agricultural province, a province with a large population, and a province with a large labor export. In 2024, Henan will export more than 12 million rural laborers to outside the province alone. When people go out, who will plant crops? Henan builds a modern agricultural management system, cultivates new agricultural management entities, and solves the problem of "who will farm".

  Implement new agricultural business entities improvement actions. Since 2022, the high-quality farmers' cultivation plan and the rural practical talent leader training plan have been implemented, and the full-industry chain training is carried out for family farmers and farmers' cooperatives. New agricultural operators are encouraged to develop new industries and new business formats, and expand from breeding and breeding to integrated production, processing and sales. As of the end of 2024, Henan has trained more than 10,000 rural practical talents.

  Improve the policy system, actively guide the orderly transfer of rural land management rights, develop moderate-scale agricultural operations, and give full play to the maximum effect of fertile fields, good seeds, good opportunities, good laws and good systems. Zhao Yanjie, chairman of Xiping County Ruifan Planting Professional Cooperative, is a "old-handed" farming style. He has transferred more than 900 acres of land, all of which are high-standard farmland, mainly growing wheat and corn. Due to the long contracting time, he purchased tractors, seeders, drones, dryers and other machinery, and through skill training, he was able to operate everything skillfully.

  At present, the rural land transfer area in Henan has reached 36.6509 million mu. Agricultural social service organizations help intensive and efficient farming by providing services such as farming, planting, management, harvesting and drying and warehousing. "At present, we have hosted more than 600,000 acres of land across the country, and drones and tractors are operating in many places across the country." Shen Xingxin, chairman of Shouyi Agriculture, opened an APP on his mobile phone, which showed the operating locations of various machinery. "We purchase different seeds, pesticides and fertilizers according to different regions, and professionals guide the planting; we have various advanced mechanical equipment to greatly improve production efficiency." Shen Xingxin said.

  Data from the Henan Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs shows that the province currently has more than 200,000 professional farmers' cooperatives and more than 270,000 family farms; it has 127,000 agricultural social service organizations, and an agricultural production custody service area of ​​228 million mu, of which 184 million mu of grain crops were served, accounting for 80.7%, and 16.12 million small farmers were served, providing strong guarantees for increasing grain production and farmers' income.

  Water-saving drip irrigation system in high-standard farmland in Weihui City, Henan Province is irrigating wheat seedlings (photo taken on February 12, 2025) Photo by Liu Zhenkun/This issue

  The isomorphism of the "three chains" promotes the integration of the "three industries"

  Henan holds close to the "trump card" of grain, grasps the "grain and food tail" and "agricultural work tail", adheres to scientific and technological support and innovation-driven, leads to drive and gathers development, focuses on the four major industries such as wheat, corn, rice, and oil, and coordinates the special grain industries such as miscellaneous grains and potatoes, extends the industrial chain, enhances the value chain, builds the supply chain, promotes industrial transformation and upgrading, and promotes the integrated development of the first, second and third industries.

  Vigorously develop the deep grain processing industry and extend the grain industry chain.

  Agricultural product processing industry is one of Henan's pillar industries, and "Made in Henan" occupies an important share of the Chinese dining table. In 2024, Henan's total wheat production was 75.706 billion jin, setting a new record high. Wheat with three gluten levels: strong, medium and low gluten are grown in Henan, and the wheat is deeply processed with rich raw materials.

  Henan Feitian Biotechnology Co., Ltd., located in Hebi City, has an annual production capacity of 500,000 tons of corn and 240,000 tons of wheat, and involves 76 starch and sugar series products. The company cooperates with scientific research institutions such as the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Henan University of Technology to promote the implementation and transformation of high-end sugar substitutes and new alternative protein biotechnology.

  "In addition to processing wheat into common flour, wheat starch, maltose and other products on the market, we further extended the industrial chain, 'eat dry and squeezed the wheat all out', and extract high-end sugar substitutes such as paclitaxel and tagas that have high added value from the wheat tail powder that was originally not worthy of high utilization." Yuan Honghui, the company's technical director, said, "Paclitaxel is widely used in medical beverages and foods, with a calories of about 10% of sucrose, which is very friendly to patients with diabetes."

  In terms of deep processing of corn, Henan optimizes the structure of corn food and feed products, improves the processing capabilities of high-end food, feed, and pet food, and develops deep processing products such as biological products, pharmaceutical products, and chemical products.

  Henan Jinyufeng Biotechnology Co., Ltd., located in Zhumadian City, consumes 6,000 tons of corn every day and processes corn into starch, fructose syrup, lysine, threonine and other products, continuously increasing the added value of corn.

  In order to further strengthen the agricultural product processing industry and promote the extension of the industrial chain, Henan has established a "scheme + map + list" system for key industrial chains, improved the "chain leader + special team" operation mechanism, improved the "chain owner + association + alliance" collaborative system, and promoted the extension of the industrial chain to townships, villages, and farmers. Strengthen leading enterprises, cultivate and expand a group of "chain leader" enterprises in a graded manner, and form a formation of high-quality enterprise development.

  Use leading enterprises to drive the green and branded development of agricultural products and enhance the value chain of the food industry.

  Greening and branding are important ways to enhance the value chain of the agriculture and food industry. At present, Henan is cultivating a trillion-level green food pillar industry, introducing well-known domestic and foreign brands, and creating local brands.

  Introduce high-end brands to enhance the value of grain and oil products. At the Suiping County factory of Wudeli Flour Group, the world's largest single flour processing workshop, which is 185 meters long, is being produced day and night. Every day, 6,000 tons of wheat are turned into flour through a high-precision, fully enclosed automated production system, and then transported and distributed through an intelligent "unmanned warehouse".

  In the filling workshop of Luhua Group in Zhengyang County, Zhumadian City, the fully automatic production line can produce 6,000 barrels of edible oil per hour. This is the factory with the largest investment, highest production capacity and most advanced equipment in China, with an annual peanut processing capacity of 300,000 tons.

  Henan has introduced many well-known domestic and foreign companies such as Jinlongyu, Jinmailang, Chen Keming Food, China National Petroleum and Grain Oil, to transform the advantages of raw materials into brand advantages.

  Create public brands and help local brands expand the market. Consolidate the leading position of local food companies such as Shuanghui, Sanquan, Si Nian, Weilong, Hao Xiangniu in the industry, and continue to create new food brands.

  Create a provincial regional public brand of "Yuan Agricultural Excellent Products", polish the golden signboard of Henan's high-quality green agricultural products, expand online and offline channels, and help Henan's high-quality agricultural products expand into the high-end market.

  Duofuduo’s pastry is one of the products that are mainly promoted by “Yuannong Premium Products”. In addition to producing traditional steamed buns, starting from the second half of 2024, Zhongyuan Grain Group Duofuduo Food Co., Ltd. has cooperated with intangible cultural heritage inheritors to integrate intangible cultural heritage, modern crafts and nutritional formulas, and launched a series of unique and auspicious cultural pastries such as "Hongyun Koi", "Fu Lu Shou Xi", and "Twelve Zodiac Signs", combining traditional flower bun crafts with modern fresh preservation technology, and the single product has a premium of 300%.

  "After these cultural and creative pastries were launched, the market response was good. From January to April 2025, the average monthly sales were more than 400,000 yuan, becoming our new brand products." said Han Hongjun, deputy general manager of the company.

  At present, Henan has created 1,284 key leading enterprises in agricultural industrialization at the provincial level or above, including 122 national level, and has led the leading enterprises to drive agricultural products to develop towards greening and branding.

  Improve the warehousing and logistics system and build a global supply chain.

  The modern warehousing and logistics system serves supply and production on one end and connects demand and consumption on the other end. It is an important support for extending the industrial chain and enhancing the value chain. It is also an important link in Henan from the "Central Plains Granary" to the "Chinese Kitchen" and the "World Dining Table".

  Henan is located in the heart of the Central Plains, connecting east and west, connecting north and south, and relies on the four "Silk Roads" of air, land, online and sea to build an international logistics center. The total mileage of the province's comprehensive transportation network reaches more than 300,000 kilometers, and has basically built a modern three-dimensional transportation system and logistics channel hub connecting home and abroad and radiating east, middle and west. With the help of Zhengzhou, a three-dimensional transportation hub of "iron, road and machine", Henan has continuously improved the cold chain logistics system of grain, oil and food, and built an efficient supply network from farmland to dining table.

  In recent years, Henan has implemented the cold chain food upgrade action, developed cold chain products, developed cold chain technology, and built a cold chain system. Si Nian Food, which started in Zhengzhou, has developed into a frozen food giant in my country, producing 900,000 tons of frozen food covering 8 categories. Qianwei Central Kitchen’s cold chain products fried dough sticks, sesame balls, steamed dumplings and egg tarts have developed into large items with annual sales of over 100 million yuan.

  Henan proposed that by 2025, the output value of the cold chain food industry chain will reach 400 billion yuan.

  Featured, efficient agriculture and rich national dining table

  On the premise of ensuring food security, Henan continues to improve the quality, efficiency and competitiveness of agriculture, and strives to achieve the unity of food security and modern high-efficiency agriculture. Henan’s modern high-efficiency agriculture is undergoing a fundamental transformation from mechanization to digitalization, from experience-driven to data-driven.

  Smart breeding enriches national dining tables.

  In the Muyuan meat industry complex in Neixiang County, there are 21 pig-raising buildings, which produce 2.1 million pigs every year. The intelligent inspection robot is the "most beautiful boy" in every building. It can collect 14 indicators such as temperature, humidity, pig herd signs, and abnormal sounds of pig herds 24 hours a day, and transmit them to the cloud platform in real time to promptly warn and push solutions. "Even if a pig has a cough, the inspection robot will light up the indicator light to remind the keeper to check it." said Hu Yiyong, head of intelligent applications of Muyuan Group.

  Intelligent environmental control, intelligent feeding and other systems make pigs live comfortably and eat healthily. "In 2011, the company began to explore information technology and established a professional intelligent team in 2019 to realize intelligent management of pig breeding through cloud monitoring, big data analysis and automated equipment operation." Hu Yiyong said.

  It is reported that Muyuan Group slaughtered 71.6 million live pigs in 2024, meeting the pork needs of more than 100 million people and directly creating 140,000 jobs.

  In recent years, Henan has continuously enhanced the supply guarantee capabilities and market competitiveness of the animal husbandry industry by cultivating new varieties, improving facilities and equipment, and introducing intensive breeding technology.

  Accelerate the revitalization of the animal husbandry seed industry. New livestock and poultry varieties (series) such as Xianan cattle, Henan black pig, Huanghuai meat sheep, and Henan flour No. 1 laying hen have been cultivated. Accelerate the industrialization and facilities of animal husbandry. At present, among the province's annual output of more than 50,000 pigs, automated drinking water has been fully covered, and the full mechanized feeding rate has reached 97%; among more than 100 dairy farms, more than 90% are equipped with cooling facilities and equipment such as spraying and fans, and 82% have achieved full mechanized feeding; among more than 500,000 meat and poultry farms and more than 100,000 egg and poultry farms, 90% have achieved full mechanized feeding, and 88% have achieved automated environmental control. Promote efficient and intensive aquaculture and carry out digital management. 100% of basic sows and 95% of cows in the province use artificial insemination and breeding technology, and the popularity of precision feeding technology in large-scale dairy farms reaches more than 90%.

  The production efficiency of animal husbandry has been greatly improved. In 2023, the yield of dairy cows tested in the province increased to 9.7 tons, an increase of 1 ton from 2019. Muyuan Company is located in the 6th floor of fully intelligent pig breeding base in Neixiang County, Nanyang City. One breeder can raise 10,000 commercial pigs a year. Compared with traditional breeding farms, the unit land output rate has increased by 4.3 times and the labor productivity has increased by more than 5 times.

  In 2024, the total output of meat, eggs and milk in Henan Province was 13.37 million tons, and the annual output value of animal husbandry reached 261 billion yuan, an increase of 1.8% year-on-year, making an important contribution to enriching the national dining table.

  Practice the concept of big food and build a diversified supply system.

  In the "Future Farm" of Huangchuan County, Xinyang City, in the glass greenhouse on the roof, soillessly cultivated colorful tomatoes hang on the branches, and the vines of tomatoes can climb three meters high along the rope, producing tomatoes one after another. The entire picking season exceeds six months, and the yield per mu is far higher than traditional agricultural planting.

  Zhang Qikai, the manager of the "Future Farm", told reporters that the farm uses soilless cultivation, and temperature, humidity, carbon dioxide concentration, water and fertilizer are all intelligently controlled.

  On the first floor of this building, Yan Liming, the digital director of "Future Farm", is controlling energy, environmental control, water and fertilizer, ventilation and other systems through computers.

  "We can see data on more than 3,000 points inside and outside the farm on the computer, including the temperature, humidity, and pH of the nutrient substrate for tomato growth. We will also supplement carbon dioxide into the farm in moderation to improve the efficiency of photosynthesis." Yan Liming said.

  At present, Henan Province's facility vegetables have basically formed early spring and late autumn vegetable bases mainly in plastic greenhouses in southern Henan, winter and spring vegetable bases mainly in solar greenhouses in northern Henan, and winter and spring and early autumn vegetable bases that are both important in greenhouses and greenhouses in eastern and central Henan. In 2025, the area of ​​facilities will be increased by more than 10%, ensuring that the "vegetable basket" products are more abundant.

  Characteristic agriculture promotes farmers' income growth.

  In Tongxu County Hot and Sour Noodle Industrial Park, the automated assembly line runs rapidly. After more than 20 processes, the sweet potato starch has been transformed into buckets of spicy and sour, refreshing, delicious and healthy hot and sour noodles... More than 2 million barrels of hot and sour noodles come from here to people's dining tables every day.

  Li Zhenju, head of the Tongxu County Hot and Sour Noodle Industry Development Team, told reporters that as of now, the county's hot and sour noodle industry has 23 enterprises above designated size and 76 hot and sour noodle-related production lines, with an annual output of 720 million barrels of hot and sour noodle, driving 61,000 jobs, and has built the largest hot and sour noodle production and processing base in the country.

  With the help of the "Yuan Agricultural Excellent Products" public brand, Henan supports the strengthening and improvement of characteristic agricultural products through fund investment, supply chain services, project cooperation, industrial co-construction and other methods to enhance brand value. Henan Agricultural Investment Group takes advantage of its full-functional investment and financing advantages such as funds, insurance, and agricultural supply chain services to deepen the integration of production and financing, and has invested in Luohe Green Food, Yuanyang Pre-made Vegetables, Tongxu Spicy and Sour Noodles, Qixian Garlic, Xixia Mushroom, Zhengyang Peanuts, Sanmenxia Fruit Industry, Nanyang Mugwort, etc., to support local characteristic and advantageous agriculture to become stronger, better and bigger. The next step will be to promote the brand influence of "Yuan Agricultural Excellent Products" into the first echelon of the country by creating a win-win ecology of "government + enterprise + finance".

  Henan promotes the construction of a long-term mechanism for connecting agriculture and leading agriculture to benefit agriculture, insists on industrial assistance to townships, villages and households, and leaves the value-added income and employment positions of the agricultural industrial chain to farmers as much as possible, so that farmers can have work and money to earn at their doorstep. In 2024, the per capita disposable income of rural residents in the province was 21,330 yuan, an increase of 6.4% year-on-year.

  "The Central Plains are mature, and the whole world is full." At present, more than 85 million mu of wheat in Henan have entered the grouting period and are about to usher in harvest.

  Crasp the crisscrossing high-speed rail line in Zhengzhou City, Henan Province (photo taken on March 31, 2025) Photo by Li Jianan/This issue

  (Reporter: Li Jun, Liu Jinhui, Ma Yichong, Zheng Jiabao)

(Outlook, 2025, Issue 19)

[Editor in charge: Wang Xue]