China: Increase in income of 2,000 yuan per acre is all attributable to new model of corn and peanut intercropping

Typical school Corn and peanut intercropping has allowed farmers to earn an extra 2000 yuan per mu of land. This happened in Dongdaxin Village, Qingping Town, Gaotang County, Shandong Province. Recently, the reporter found in an interview here that it is different from common field corn planting methods. The corn is planted very densely, the plant spacing is less than 15 cm, and the number of corn sown in quarters has reached 3,400, which is much higher than the local planting density of 4,200 plants per mu. At the same time, three rows of peanuts are planted in every three rows of corn. Sun Changhuan, the party secretary of Dongda New Village, told reporters that the 600 acres of land are intercropped with corn and peanuts. However, four-cent corn can match the yield of one acre in the conventional planting mode, and peanuts are net income.” He emphasized that the science and technology commissioner has introduced new models and new technologies, and the income per acre is ...