Aerial photo taken on Feb. 22, 2020 shows vegetable seedling greenhouses at Lanfeng Village of Ligang Town, Helan County, Yinchuan, northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. (Xinhua/Wang Peng)
No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn. Farmers across China have been busy carrying out agricultural production as the weather warms up.
Beijing, Feb. 23 (Xinhua) -- Chinese farmers, cautiously and actively, begin spring farming in hopes of a bumper harvest amid the ongoing fight against the coronavirus outbreak.
Spring is the golden time for farming in most parts of China, a country needs to feed a huge population of some 1.4 billion. The ongoing coronavirus epidemic this year, however, has made it more pressing to ensure a good grain supply.
In an earlier circular, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of China stressed support for agricultural manufacturers to resume production as soon as possible to increase market supply and ensure the needs of spring plowing.
As of Feb. 10, 94.6 percent of the country's major grain production and processing firms had resumed production.
Photo taken on Feb. 22, 2020 shows seedlings at a modern agricultural park in Helan County, Yinchuan, northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. (Xinhua/Wang Peng)
A farmer picks tomatoes at a modern agricultural park in Helan County, Yinchuan, northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Feb. 22, 2020. (Xinhua/Wang Peng)
Aerial photo taken on Feb. 19, 2020 shows villagers driving machines to plough the land in Rongjiang County, Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture of Qiandongnan, southwest China's Guizhou Province. (Photo by Wang Bingzhen/Xinhua)
A villager plant corn In the field at Sanling Village of Luocheng Mulao Autonomous County, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Feb. 19, 2020. (Photo by Wu Yaorong/Xinhua)
Villagers plant the eggplant seedlings in fields at Rongshui Township of Rongshui Miao Autonomous County, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Feb. 18, 2020. (Photo by Long Linzhi/Xinhua)
Aerial photo taken on Feb. 19, 2020 shows villagers working in fields at the Qidu Township of Ji'an, east China's Jiangxi Province. (Photo by Liu Haojun/Xinhua)
Aerial photo taken on Feb. 19, 2020 shows villagers sowing seedlings of the herbs for Chinese medicine through the seeding machines at Tongying Village of Bozhou, east China's Anhui Province. (Photo by Zhang Yanlin/Xinhua)
Villagers fertilize wheat at Linhe Township in Feidong County, east China's Anhui Province, Feb. 18, 2020. (Xinhua/Han Xiaoyu)
A villager picks fruit at Hantang Village of Sanjiang Township, Nanchang County, east China's Jiangxi Province, Feb. 18, 2020. (Xinhua/Wan Xiang)
A staff member takes care of flower seedlings at a flower planting base in Nangong Village of Wangzuo Town in Fengtai District of Beijing, capital of China, Feb. 22, 2020. (Xinhua/Ren Chao)
A staff member ploughs at a vegetable planting base in Nangong Village of Wangzuo Town in Fengtai District of Beijing, capital of China, Feb. 22, 2020. (Xinhua/Ren Chao)
