The Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Agricultural and Animal Husbandry Technology Promotion Center invited experts and relevant personnel from the Inner Mongolia University of Science and Technology, the Baotou Survey Team of the National Bureau of Statistics, the Baotou Rural Pastoral Area Management and Information Service Center and other units to conduct a field yield test for the high-yield competition of soybean and corn belt composite planting in Baotou on Oct 4.

The site of the yield test is a 240-mu (16 hectares) soybean and corn belt compound planting field in a concentrated area of the Yuanshengyuan Farmer Professional Cooperative in Jiuyuan district. It has been reported that the cultivation method of this plot is of the compound planting belt type, and all crops are managed separately through integrated water and fertilizer management of mulched drip irrigation.

According to the yield test, the actual yields of soybeans and corn in the high-yield competition field are 127.74kg/mu and 802.44kg/mu, respectively. The expert group agreed that this satisfies the goal of no reductions in corn yields and a pure increase in soybean yields.

Since June 16, Baotou has been comprehensively promoting technology for soybean and corn belt composite planting, exceeding the 370,000 mu assigned by the autonomous region. Soybeans and corn crops have now been mostly harvested.