In the 70 years since the founding of the People’s Republic of China, China’s farmland irrigation industry has developed rapidly. It has produced about three-quarters of the country’s output on the irrigated area of about half of the country’s arable land. It has also produced more than 90% of the country’s cash crops. China’s food and important agricultural products are safe.

This was learned by reporters on the 16th academic exchange meeting of the 60th anniversary of the Institute of Farmland Irrigation of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences held in Xinxiang City, Henan Province.

Ni Wenjin, deputy director of the Ministry of Water Resources and Hydropower of the Ministry of Water Resources, said at the meeting that the current effective irrigation area in the country reached 1.02 billion mu and the water-saving irrigation area reached 540 million mu. In the past 40 years, while the irrigated area in the country has increased by 300 million mu and the irrigation guarantee rate has been continuously improved, irrigation water has not increased substantially, and the total grain output and per capita food production have been successively increased.

Among these brilliant achievements, there is the contribution of the Institute of Farmland Irrigation of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. This research institute is a national-level scientific research institution specializing in agricultural irrigation and drainage technology innovation and technical services. It was established in Beijing in 1959 and moved to Xinxiang City, Henan Province in 1963. It is now jointly led by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and the Ministry of Water Resources.

For more than half a century, agricultural science and technology workers, including farmland irrigation research institutes, have created water conservancy soil improvement theories, techniques and new models in the Yellow River and Huaihai Plain’s drought and salinity comprehensive management conference to promote the realization of the Huanghuaihai Plain. The historical miracle of the saline-alkali land to the “Central Plains Granary”.

For more than half a century, agricultural science and technology workers, including farmland irrigation research institutes, have created water conservancy soil improvement theories, techniques and new models in the Yellow River and Huaihai Plain’s drought and salinity comprehensive management conference to promote the realization of the Huanghuaihai Plain. The historical miracle of the saline-alkali land to the “Central Plains Granary”.

China is one of the most water-deficient countries in the world. Agricultural water-saving irrigation area only accounts for 45% of the effective irrigation area. High-efficiency water-saving irrigation technology such as drip irrigation and sprinkler irrigation only accounts for 13.5% of the effective irrigation area. Huang Xiuqiao said that in the future, it is necessary to vigorously promote the scientific and technological innovation and application of green development of irrigated agriculture, and carry out collaborative innovation, demonstration and sharing and utilization in the fields of irrigation and drainage, agricultural water and soil environment and rural water ecological management, and support the construction of high-standard farmland. Modern agricultural and rural development.