Liyang Kicks Off Full-scale Summer Wheat Harvest with Mechanised and Policy Support

Liyang City in Jiangsu Province has launched its full summer wheat harvesting campaign across 308,000 mu of farmland. The region maintains the largest wheat planting scale in Changzhou, with robust crop growth and high-quality seed performance supporting promising grain output. The total wheat production is expected to exceed 100,000 tonnes, securing a solid summer grain harvest for the year.

Favourable sunny weather has enabled uniform ripening across local wheat fields. Golden wheat ears are plump and well-developed, creating optimal conditions for large-scale mechanical harvesting. In field zones of Nandu Town, multiple combine harvesters operate continuously, completing cutting, threshing and impurity removal in one efficient workflow. Crop straw is fully crushed and returned to the field, improving soil fertility and enabling environmentally friendly grain production.

Improved wheat varieties including Yangmai 25 and Yangmai 46 deliver outstanding field performance with full grains and superior quality. Local large-scale grain farmers project per-unit yield to surpass 600 kilograms per mu. Modern fully mechanised farming systems greatly enhance operational efficiency. Deploying 20 mechanical units allows daily harvesting of around 800,000 jin of wheat, covering 5,000 mu of farmland within two weeks.

The city has expanded its wheat planting area by 14,000 mu year on year. To guarantee orderly summer harvest progress, Liyang has deployed professional agricultural machinery volunteer teams to deliver on-site technical training for harvest loss reduction and routine equipment maintenance services. Multiple local authorities and major energy enterprises jointly implement China’s official agricultural support initiative, the “Three Priorities and One Exemption” fuel policy for farming machinery, ensuring stable and cost-effective fuel supply for seasonal agricultural operations.

In 2026, Liyang has coordinated over 600 local combine harvesters and more than 900 grain dryers, while introducing an additional 800 cross-regional agricultural machines. The city has built an integrated operational chain covering harvesting, transportation and drying, enabling round-the-clock processing capacity to accelerate harvest progress.

Thirty-eight professional agricultural expert teams have been dispatched to frontline fields to guide scientific harvesting and precise grain drying. Field supervisors coordinate seamless connections between summer harvesting and sowing procedures to avoid missing optimal farming schedules. The entire wheat planting area in Changzhou is set to complete harvesting in early June under well-organised arrangements.

Efficient post-harvest processing further minimises grain losses. Freshly harvested wheat is immediately transported to professional drying centres to reduce moisture content, effectively preventing mildew and quality deterioration caused by unstable weather. Real-time harvesting progress and operational data are synchronised to municipal agricultural supervision platforms throughout the harvest period.

Integrated mechanised operations, improved seed application and systematic policy support steadily enhance local grain production capacity. Standardised whole-process farming management stabilises regional summer grain output and reinforces foundational food security for the local area.