Fertilizer companies need to undertake agricultural services

Most farmers rely on experience to use drugs? This is indeed the case.

A few years ago, the China Consumers Association conducted a survey of 100,000 farmer families. The question is: How can the amount of fertilizer be mastered? As a result, 60% of the farmers chose to rely on experience, 20% chose to look at others, and the majority of farmers received technical guidance from the end.

According to a report from the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, the overall level of agricultural cultivation in China today is low, and long-term over-fertilization of farmers has resulted in very low fertilizer utilization (less than 20% of ammonium bicarbonate, less than 60% of urea, less than 20% of phosphate fertilizer, and 45% of potash fertilizer. Left and right), the average application of nitrogen fertilizer in 17 provinces (regions, cities) has exceeded the internationally recognized upper limit of 225 kg/ha. Excessive fertilization directly leads to environmental pollution and farmland damage.

The situation of pesticide application is also not optimistic. According to the person in charge of the Ministry of Agriculture's Institute of Pesticide Verification, the use of pesticides is closely related to the quality and safety of agricultural products. The level of farmers' medications needs to be improved. The task of training pesticide operators and users is arduous and urgent. Improper use of medicines, even blind drug use, drug bans, and drug abuse are common in some areas. One of the reasons is that farmers lack understanding of pesticides and they do not receive enough guidance.

The irrational use of medicinal fertilizers has seriously damaged the image of the agriculture industry, and also affected the sustainable development of the industry. For this reason, in recent years, more and more fertilizer and pesticide companies have embarked on the field and approached farmers to provide farmers with technical support for fertilizers and drugs. Production enterprises have gradually realized that guiding farmers to use fertilizers and drugs rationally, inhibit soil pollution, and safeguard the safety of agricultural products are the responsibilities that companies must shoulder, and they are also an important part of the sustainable development of the industry.

According to Bai Youlu, director of the National Center for Soil Testing and Fertilization, and the researcher of the Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, the fertilizer is used well. It is necessary to emphasize the correct fertilizer dosage form, the correct application amount, the correct fertilization time and the right Fertilization location. Currently, fertilizers produced by different manufacturers only have the phenomenon of homogeneity in some bulk products. There are almost no varieties of compound fertilizer produced by many companies. Even if the compound fertilizer nutrient ratio is the same, the ingredients are not necessarily the same, and the effect is not necessarily the same. Therefore, providing technical support directly to farmers has become a realistic option for large-scale fertilizer companies.

Closer to the farmers, the guidance of farmers, the service of farmers, the popularization of scientific and safe fertilizer knowledge, has been more and more concerned by fertilizer companies. Most enterprises have set up specialized agrochemical service departments, lectures, schools, training, face-to-face instruction, and opening of service lines. Fertilizer production companies have been horologically refurbished and increasingly close to farmers. At present, dozens of chemical fertilizer production enterprises have established national agrochemical service centers in order to better serve farmers.

At this time, it is during the period of spring plowing and fertilization. In order to welcome the arrival of the peak period, the agrochemical services of various companies are extremely lively. A few days ago, Zhongnong Group Holdings Co., Ltd. launched a series of activities in the “Going to cultivating springs, sending science and technology, and ensuring production” in the Xingtai area of ​​Hebei province. This is a representative example: through the face-to-face guidance of agricultural techniques, it is distributed. More than 300 households in counties and towns in Qiu, Nanhe and other counties benefited in a concentrated manner. It is understood that in recent years, through the creation of a professional "Chinese agricultural capital" small-scale cooperative, the company has continuously improved the agricultural service system that meets the individual needs of farmers, starting with scientific planting, soil testing and fertilizer, and other types of agrochemicals. Service methods and specific agricultural products actively meet the needs of agricultural production. By guiding farmers to use fertilizers scientifically and rationally use fertilizers, they eventually achieve the goal of increasing agricultural output, improving soil, and reducing pollution.

It is an important direction for well-known pesticide companies at home and abroad to fulfill their social responsibilities by guiding farmers to use drugs scientifically and safely in the application. Its specific forms are very rich, including sending science and technology to the countryside, providing plant protection technical manuals to farmers, promoting highly toxic alternative products, and using advanced plant protection machinery. More than 30 responsible persons of pesticide companies such as Jiangsu Baoling Chemical Co., Ltd. jointly issued proposals and promised to improve the after-sales service mechanism and consciously assume responsibility for farmers' scientific, rational and safe drug use.

Jiangsu Anbang Electrochemical Co., Ltd. began to actively strengthen the training of pesticide dealers and farmers a few years ago, and advocated scientific, rational and safe drug use. The company has held dealership conferences and farmers' conferences on many occasions, and science and technology promotion personnel sometimes direct farmer medication directly to the fields.

Syngenta (Suzhou) Crop Protection Co., Ltd. also holds thousands of lectures each year throughout the country to guide farmers in drug use. Millions of farmers have already received training.

Lianyungang Liben Pesticide Chemical Co., Ltd. worked closely with the agricultural extension departments in various regions to do a good job in forecasting pests and weeds, to guide farmers in scientific and rational drug use, and to reduce environmental pollution. The company also set up a technical service hotline to provide farmers with 24-hour consulting services.

In addition to training and guiding distributors and farmers in scientific drug use, Suzhou Fumei Real Plant Protection Agents Co., Ltd. also instructs farmers to correctly dispose of waste pesticide packaging to protect the ecological environment.