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Currently, the spring plowing activity for supply and marketing cooperatives in the city is underway. During this year's spring plowing season, the Municipal Supply and Marketing Cooperative has given away 1 million yuan worth of agricultural supplies gift packages to farmers in the city for the third consecutive year. At the same time, it highlights the themes of party building leadership, promoting agriculture through science and technology, and providing green services, and strives to provide comprehensive support for spring plowing production.

Party Flag Red, Heart Towards Farmers

The joint branch of Ningbo Yongfeng Agricultural Materials Company organized the "Supply and Marketing Farm Nannies" party member service team to go to the front line of spring plowing to carry out activities to help and benefit farmers. The subsidiary Ninghai Fengqing Agricultural Materials Company organized party members and cadres to carry out the "sending agricultural materials, technology, and services to the countryside" activity, and has supplied over 1000 tons of various agricultural materials and commodities this spring. In key towns and villages such as Ninghai Changjie, Liyang, Qiaotouhu, and Yishi, Party member volunteers from Fengqing Company walked into agricultural supply stores to promote high-quality formula fertilizers, organic fertilizers, high-efficiency, low toxicity, and low residue pesticides and other green agricultural supplies, guiding farmers to scientifically use agricultural products to improve prevention and control effects. The subordinate Yinfeng Agricultural Materials Company has formed a "Red Supply Vanguard Team" to go deep into the front line, strengthen the transportation, storage, and distribution of major agricultural materials such as fertilizers, pesticides, and agricultural films through the establishment of party member demonstration posts and party member responsibility areas, and ensure sufficient supply, quality and safety, and stable prices of various agricultural materials; Innovate the "Red Agency" service model, guide various agricultural material outlets to extend service hours, promote convenient sales methods such as collective group buying and telephone appointments, and have supplied over 1000 tons of agricultural materials. The average price of major fertilizers such as urea has decreased by more than 20% year-on-year; Organize party members, agricultural technology experts, and "crop doctors" to establish a "red technical service team", carry out "field classroom" themed party day activities, provide on-site agricultural technology consultation for farmers, and provide targeted explanations of agricultural technology issues such as pesticide application, fertilization, pest control, etc; Carry out the "Red Benefit for Farmers" profit sharing activity, organize party member volunteer service teams, and provide door-to-door delivery services for large-scale grain planting agricultural cooperatives, district supply and marketing cooperatives, and professional cooperatives in the area. Offer discounts on agricultural material purchases and socialized services, with a total profit sharing discount of 50000 yuan.

promote agriculture by applying scientific and technological advances

The Municipal Supply and Marketing Cooperative relies on the "Yongchuanghui" digital service platform for agricultural inputs, linking 9 agricultural input enterprises, 110 agricultural service centers, and 302 grassroots sales outlets in the city to achieve "online booking+offline direct supply". Farmers can place orders online with one click, and the platform completes the "last mile" delivery offline, achieving 24-hour response and 2-hour delivery within the city of Ningbo. Fenghua District Supply and Marketing Cooperative has strengthened its cooperation with Ningbo Seed Industry Co., Ltd., jointly investing more than 4 million yuan to equip the Song'ao Minli Agricultural Machinery Professional Cooperative with large-scale conveyors, one-time molding selection machines and other equipment, realizing "one-stop" services such as rice seed selection, drying, stone removal, and transportation. The Ningbo seed bank has delivered rice seeds to the fields in "one hour", and has transported and supplied 3 tons of rice seeds to Shangtian Street through a cold chain special line. Yuyao Supply and Marketing Cooperative has integrated the resources of agricultural machinery cooperatives and launched a "land to land agricultural machinery" sharing platform, providing mechanized operations such as intelligent farming and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) flight prevention and plant protection. 34 service providers have been launched with a service area of 667 acres. The unmanned aerial vehicle service team of Cixi Supply and Marketing Cooperative has 12 drones, 8 professional and technical personnel, and an annual service scale of about 80000 acres. Drones automatically plan the optimal flight path, accurately spray pesticides and fertilizers, effectively improve operational efficiency, and reduce environmental pollution. We have provided 50000 acres of aerial defense services, a year-on-year increase of 30%.

Green Services

The city's system has increased the supply of green agricultural materials such as formula fertilizers and biopesticides, and there is sufficient reserve of agricultural materials in stock. At the same time, agricultural material packaging waste recycling services have been carried out, and 1.364 million pesticide packaging waste have been recycled, effectively reducing non-point source pollution. Haishu District Supply and Marketing Cooperative leverages the advanced equipment of the seedling raising center to provide high-quality services to rice growers throughout the district, improve the seedling raising guarantee mechanism during spring plowing, and enhance seedling raising efficiency. The seedling center has prepared 80000 seedling trays in advance, 2000 cubic meters of seedling substrate, and 2 additional seedling machine operators; Sign a supply "next day delivery" agreement with the seedling substrate supplier to ensure efficient and high-quality seedling cultivation work. Xiangshan County Supply and Marketing Cooperative is solidly promoting the "field trusteeship" and implementing specialized actions to reduce and increase efficiency in agricultural inputs. Through full process planting trusteeship services such as farmland sowing, unified purchase of agricultural inputs, formula fertilization, and pest control, combined with frontline service models such as "Fenghe Plant Protection Cooperative+Crop Hospital", it has achieved full process "nanny style" services for grain crops and economic crops such as Cuiguan pear and potatoes, and has trusteeship more than 4000 acres of land.