Cropland of high standard gaining ground

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China is getting closer to its goal of developing all permanent basic cropland into high-standard cropland, which will be expanded to further benefit the agricultural sector.

The nation boasts about 128 million hectares of farmland, of which 103 million are permanent basic cropland.

Dong Yonghan, who lives in Dalu village of Hefei, Anhui province, has been busy leading his colleagues and villagers in harvesting wheat and planting sorghum on the 405 hectares of cropland.

Born in the 1970s, Dong said that harvesting and planting work is now much easier as cropland in the village had been transformed into high-standard field by 2021.

"The plots are now much bigger than before, along with the roads and irrigation networks," said Dong, secretary of the village committee of the Communist Party of China.

"The recent harvest only took us three days, as we used several machines," Dong said, adding that planting the broomcorn took just one week.