After attending the reception banquet held by Deputy Secretary Li, Wu Hao and the others were immediately arranged to rest in the hotel.

Of course, the condition of the hotel is certainly not as good as that of Wushi. But in such a place of tens of thousands of people, it is good to have this condition. At least it's clean and comfortable, no different from a normal business room.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, Wu Hao and his entourage, led by the personnel arranged by Deputy Secretary Li, began to visit and inspect the farm near Tiemen.

After a round of investigation, the scene they saw really made them gain a lot. One is the traditional agricultural method, which is actually the first few farms to be developed and built.

Basically, it is to plant trees in the desert first, and enclose the desert into patches. When the trees survive and grow, they also play a role in preventing wind and fixing sand.

This enclosed area is planted with wheat, corn, soybeans, sorghum, cotton and other crops.

This is also the most commonly used method in the entire western Xinjiang farm, which is dominated by this large-scale extensive agriculture. In fact, this is also in line with the actual situation in desert areas, after all, in such a harsh environment, intensive farming is difficult to achieve.

The second is the large-scale sprinkler irrigation agricultural technology developed in the past ten or twenty years.

Large-scale sprinkler irrigation agriculture is actually the use of sprinkler irrigation technology to replenish water for crops planted in arid and barren sandy soil in deserts. In addition, according to these irrigation pipes, these crops can be continuously provided with fertilizers or pesticides for insecticide control.

There are many kinds of sprinkler irrigation technology, in addition to the common sprinkler irrigation method, in fact, there are grid overhead sprinkler irrigation technology, and center pivot sprinkler irrigation technology.

When we fly by plane, we often see a very regular round oasis in the western desert, which is the result of large-scale pivot irrigation technology.

Although sprinkler irrigation technology is much more water-saving than traditional diversion canal submerged irrigation, it still has its own disadvantages.

For example, sprinkler irrigation can only sprinkle water and fertilizer onto the surface of crops, while desert areas are relatively arid, with high temperatures and large evaporation, the water from sprinkler irrigation to the surface is easy to evaporate, and it is difficult to moisten crop roots.

Especially in an arid environment like the desert, every drop of water is hard to come by. Therefore, how to use water sources more efficiently for irrigation has become a topic that everyone is studying.

In the fifties and sixties of the last century, Ezreh, who had just been founded, faced a serious food crisis. In order to avoid long-term dependence on imports and possible food famine, Ezreel spent a huge amount of money to complete the 145-kilometer-long "North-South Water Diversion" water pipeline in 11 years.

However, traditional irrigation has slowed down agricultural technology and desert rehabilitation. At that time, most of Ezreel's territory was desert areas, so water was the lifeblood of the desert.

But in such an arid desert area, water is very scarce. There is no guarantee of water for people's daily life, let alone water for production and agriculture.

It wasn't until the sixties that a farmer stumbled upon a leak in a water pipe that looked exceptionally good. Water penetration into the soil at the same point is the most effective way to increase cooling, efficient irrigation, and control of water, fertilizers, and pesticides.

The discovery was immediately supported by the government, and the world-famous Netafim Drip Irrigation Company was born.

Since the inventor drip irrigation, the total amount of water used in agriculture has remained stable at 1.3 billion cubic meters for 30 years, while agricultural production has increased fivefold.

In fact, our country has introduced this set of drip irrigation technology very early, and according to our actual situation, we have also carried out relevant improvements and optimizations, and carried out innovative development on the original technology.

It can be said that our country is not weaker than other countries in the world in terms of drip irrigation technology.

The special environment of Xijiang has also allowed drip irrigation technology to take root and develop here, and a set of automatic dropper technology that is leading in the world has been developed according to the actual situation.

In the imagination of many people, drip irrigation technology may be simple after all. In fact, it is very simple, just poke some small holes in the thin pipe, and then let the water in the water pipe drip onto the root system of the crop.

It may seem so simple, but in reality, it is very complicated to get the water to drip evenly into each plant. It is important to know that the length of a water pipe is different, and the water pressure of each part of the water pipe is also different, so the amount of water dripping in the small hole is also different.

In order to maintain the consistency of water output from all parts of the water pipe, it is necessary to conduct a large number of R&D tests on the hard, tough, and corroded plastic pipes, connectors, filters, controllers and other functional modules to meet the design and use requirements.

Today, dropper technology is automated and intelligent. The computer automatically and automatically detects the soil moisture of the crop root system and then adjusts the amount of water produced. In addition, water containing fertilizers and pesticides can be infiltrated into the roots of the plant on a regular basis.

The successful application of this technology can not only save water resources, but also especially in arid desert areas.

In addition, it is possible to use this technology to replant vegetation and crops in an already barren desert, not only to restore the damaged ecological environment, but also to produce more agricultural and sideline products. Helping these disadvantaged areas to address food crises can even revitalize local economies.

After this round of investigation and visit, it also opened the eyes of Wu Hao, Xu Xiaoya and others, and even changed a lot of their stereotypes about this area before.

For example, they naively thought that the desert area must be barren and barren. But when I got here, I realized that there was such a vibrant place in the depths of this desert.

For another example, they used to think that most of the desert areas like Western Xinjiang were scarce of products. And their previous knowledge of this place only stayed on raisins, cantaloupe, and camels.

And this time, they really saw the rich side of Western Xinjiang here. In addition to the most basic crops mentioned above, what they didn't expect was that rice was also grown in Western Xinjiang.

It is also said that the rice produced here is of excellent quality, comparable to Tohoku rice. In addition, there are sunflowers, hops, lavender, flax, tobacco leaves, medicinal herbs, etc. The XPCC's output and quality of upland cotton, long-staple cotton and colored cotton, sugar beets, oil crops, hops, and tomato sauce rank first among the country's agricultural reclamations.

In addition, there are a large number of melons and fruits, except for tropical fruits, which are found in other places. What is not available elsewhere, is also available here, and the quality is even better.

Not to mention some other Western Xinjiang characteristics, such as beef and mutton in Western Xinjiang, which is the best beef and mutton production area in China.

As for whether it's the best Wu Hao, they don't know, anyway, that's what the tour guide introduced. But judging from the few skewers, the lamb here is indeed delicious. Even a woman like Xu Xiaoya, who is more self-denying, can't care about her identity as a female president in front of so many delicacies.

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