After lunch, Luo Taiping, the seedling manager, started work in the seedling farm of Hongyun Tobacco Professional Cooperative. His daily work is adding nutrient solution, measuring water temperature, and recording the growth of tobacco seedlings. 

 

In the nursery pool, foam trays are floating on the water, and the trays are full of tobacco seedlings. The verdant tobacco seedlings stretch their tender leaves. Under the guidance of the technicians, Luo Taiping soon completed the daily management and protection of tobacco seedlings.

 

 

Seedling raising is the key to flue-cured tobacco production. The quality of seedling cultivation directly affects the subsequent growth of tobacco leaves. In order to ensure the cultivation of high-quality tobacco seedlings, the technicians from tobacco stations in all towns of the county should go to the seedling cultivation shed for inspection every day, supervising and guiding seedling managers to conduct scientific daily management and protection of tobacco seedlings.

 

“In order to cultivate sufficient strong seedlings, we follow the requirements of the double-track responsibility mechanism, with technicians and seedling growers responsible for each seedling shed. They will conduct inspection of the daily management of all seedling sheds in the county.”

 

 

Li Sheng, deputy director of  tobacco station in Renyi town, said that it is important to give technical guidance to the seedling breeders especially in the process of disinfection, sowing, thinning out and replanting seedlings, so as to ensure our key technologies can be fully implemented.

 

At present, there are currently 57 seedling farms in Guiyang County, which can provide 250,000 mu (about 16,667 hectares) of tobacco seedlings for tobacco farmers. The ploughing and tillage of tobacco fields in the whole county has been completed, and the transplanting of tobacco seedlings is expected to start in March.