It's the autumn harvest season of another year, and all parts of Liaodong and the Outer Northeast are getting busy again. In the past, farmers all over the Far East would be immersed in the joy of a good harvest. As far as the eye can see, the vast fields are busy and lively, and people are full of hard work.

The autumn fields are abundant, peanuts, soybeans, corn, sweet potatoes, wheat and rice, picking handfuls of red beans and mung beans, endless sesame seeds, and pumpkins, poodles and other crops that are interpolated on the edge of the fields, all ripen one after another.

At this time, the vast number of farmers in the Far East feel like they are enjoying themselves, no matter how hard they work. Even if the elderly and children are busy, no one will feel wronged, no one will feel uncomfortable, and people always come to the fields together.

Both men and women are full of energy, and the atmosphere is so hot that even children of a few years old can be infected, running around behind the buttocks of adults, all of which are full of chaos.

But this year's autumn harvest is completely different, and the entire Liaodong and Outer Northeast regions are filled with a gloomy atmosphere. The joyful smiles on the faces of the farmers during the autumn harvest are gone, replaced by heaviness and anxiety.

Since spring, all parts of eastern Liaoning and the outer northeast have experienced the phenomenon of lack of rain and drought to varying degrees, and some areas have not even fallen for several months, which has also brought great pressure to the peasant households in eastern Liaoning.

Although the Far Eastern Group has made a lot of emergency plans, in the face of this severe large-scale dry weather, the company is still a little caught off guard. Since the company occupied Liaodong, although it dare not say that the wind and rain are smooth every year, it has never encountered such a serious natural disaster.

The wide range covers almost all areas of Liaodong, Northeast and Outer Northeast, and many small rivers have been cut off. A river with abundant water. The water level has also been lowered to varying degrees. In many areas, the land is cracked, and even the trees and flowers have withered and dried up due to lack of water, like patches of Jedi.

Even the northern grassland region has suffered from severe drought, and the Horqin grassland, which was once rich in water and grass, is now full of sand. It's like being in the middle of the Gobi or desert.

Fortunately, the company has planted high-quality forage grass in a large area along the river in recent years, and the hay fodder and green fodder hoarded in various forage processing centers are enough to cope with the impact of this year's drought, and there is enough forage for the cattle and sheep on the grassland to overwinter. However, the vast countryside of the Far East is not so far-fetched, and large areas of crops have died due to lack of irrigation, and the situation is extremely serious.

In the face of such severe extreme weather, everyone knows very well that the Liaodong region has finally been affected by the special climate of the Xiaoice River period. Although history has not clearly recorded the great impact of the Xiaoice River period on the eastern Liaodong region, this time it really made everyone in the Far East experience the cruelty of extreme weather in this era.

Fortunately, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of the Far East has made adequate preparations in the modern society. Most of the seeds of the crops selected are drought-resistant. Moreover, the varieties of the main crops in the Far Eastern control areas are drought-tolerant and cold-tolerant maize, sweet potatoes and potatoes.

If other varieties had been changed, the losses caused by drought in the Far East this year would have been even greater. Although the main crops throughout the Far East are drought-resistant varieties, drought resistance is also relative, and the higher the water and fertilizer of the same variety, the higher the yield. If there is a widespread water shortage, production can also be severely affected.

Thanks to the fact that in recent years, the company has organized all the farmers in the grassroots rural areas every year to carry out various agricultural infrastructure construction on a large scale. Moreover, the farmland of farmers in eastern Liaoning is cultivated along the river, which has enabled the Far East to minimize the losses caused by natural disasters this year.

Far Eastern Group attaches great importance to this large-scale drought. All departments have taken action and organized forces to go to the grassroots rural areas in various localities to actively provide disaster relief.

The Military Commission issued a mobilization order. The officers and men of the Far East and the militia reserve units stationed in various localities all took action, mobilized all the vehicles, equipment, and war horses to go deep into the most disaster-stricken areas to help peasant households in eastern Liaoning and other parts of the Outer Northeast to fight drought and provide disaster relief.

The Nationalities Committee also called on all departments to take action, and all personnel and vehicles rushed to the nearby grassroots villages to help the vast number of peasant households in the Far East carry water for irrigation. Rescue.

The enterprises in the Vladivostok industrial zone have all laid down their work and are working around the clock to produce all kinds of drought-fighting equipment, and every day trains and river barges filled with water tanks, rubber water pipes, steam-powered pumps and other equipment are sent to the hardest-hit areas of the Far East.

Li Laogen and the North Korean woman at home. I've been working in the fields for two days. Since the beginning of spring ploughing, they have cultivated the land, sowed seeds, transplanted, fertilized, weededed, and fought drought.

This year's harvest of several acres of land at home is much worse than in previous years, mainly because this year has caught up with the great drought year. In addition, the owner's fertilizer is a little out of place. Although the leaders of the various brigades and detachments, together with experts from the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, went down to the fields in the vast grassroots villages of the Far East to teach the peasant households to make their own farm soil compost.

It is only the first year of promotion, the vast number of grassroots rural farmers in the Far East have little experience, coupled with the insufficient preparation work, this year's promotion of mound farm manure, although it has also played a role in making up for it, but it has not achieved the company's expected results.

But if it doesn't rain, there is no way to do this, the drought has a great impact on the harvest of crops, Li Laogen and the North Korean women at home get up early and go to the river to fetch water in the dark, and desperately water the crops, which can be regarded as keeping the crops in their fields from dying.

In the past, if in the Ming Dynasty, the farmers encountered this kind of drought year, the end of the group was very tragic, the whole family either starved to death on the way to escape the famine, or starved to death in their own homes.

However, although the vast number of peasant households in the Far East are also saddened by their family's harvest this year, they have not starved because of this year of great drought. If they save a little food for each family, it will be enough for the family to eat for two or three years.

This year's harvest in the Far East has been generally affected, with yields per mu directly reduced by more than 50 percent in some places, even lower in others, and a complete failure in the most severely affected areas.

The situation of Li Lao and their family is quite good, and the yield per mu has only dropped by more than 40%, even so, Li Laogen and his family are still distressed and stay awake all night. The harvest is the lifeblood of the farmers, and after working for several months, seeing that the harvest is missing a large piece, the hearts of both families are dripping blood. (To be continued.) )