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On June 14, teachers and students of Northwest A&F University in Yangling Demonstration Zone, Shaanxi, harvested wheat in the field. It is reported that 3391 freshman students from 22 majors of the school will all go to the city to participate. This time, the video of the students harvesting wheat in the field was also circulated on the Internet. The topic of the Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University organizing three thousand students to harvest wheat was also posted on Weibo.

Regarding the school organizing students to participate in the harvesting of wheat, most netizens agree with the school’s teaching methods and praise the combination of professional knowledge and practice. But at the same time, some netizens questioned the school’s suspicion of making a show, thinking that mechanical harvesting is now very convenient and manual harvesting is not necessary. In addition, in the video, some students did not use sickles to harvest wheat, but “uprooted”. Some netizens criticized them for not understanding agricultural knowledge.

On the morning of June 15, a reporter from Jimu News contacted the Propaganda Department of Northwest A&F University. A staff member responded that the wheat harvesting was carried out in the test field, so the machine could not be used. “Some netizens are not very familiar with the process of wheat breeding, so they have misunderstood. The uprooting of wheat is to observe the root system of wheat, and to measure the stalk height and ear quantity of wheat for scientific control experiments.” The staff member introduced.

A staff member of the Office of the School of Agriculture of the school said that the annual “three summer” wheat harvesting work is the school’s tradition, and the participants are all freshmen of the school. They are mainly responsible for harvesting, threshing, seed selection, etc. Related work.

Teacher Zhang, a freshman student counselor of the College of Agriculture, told JiMu News that their school students have “three trainings”, namely “work training, agricultural training and military training”. The “three summers” wheat harvesting work is one of the three trainings “agricultural training.” Content. Teacher Zhang also introduced that this year’s agricultural training lasts for more than ten days, starting on June 7 and ending on June 18. Each student takes turns to participate in half a day.

Zhang Zijun, a freshman who participated in agricultural training last week, told reporters that he was mainly responsible for threshing in this agricultural training course. He had also participated in similar social practice activities before. By participating in agricultural training courses, he could feel the importance of combining theory and practice. .

Jimu News reporter inquired and learned that the predecessor of Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University was the National Northwest Agriculture and Forestry College established in 1934. It is the earliest higher agricultural and forestry education institution in the Northwest region, and it is also directly under the Ministry of Education and is the focus of the original “985 Project” and “211 Project”. Construction of colleges and universities, the first batch of national “world-class universities and first-class disciplines” construction colleges and universities.

The school has cultivated the world’s largest fine wheat variety “Bi Ma No. 1” with the largest cumulative promotion area, the distant hybrid wheat variety “Xiaoyan No. 6” that has long led the replacement of wheat varieties in my country, and my country’s independent cultivation and promotion area of ​​the largest fine wheat variety The direct economic benefits of popularization and transformation of important scientific and technological achievements such as the apple variety “Qin Guan” have exceeded 300 billion yuan.

(The original title is: “The “uprooting” of wheat received by agronomy students is questioned, Northwest A&F University responds”)

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Also in Cavalese, Italy, on March 9, 1976, a cable car cabin in this area fell down a mountainside from a height of 200m and then was thrown another 300m before stopping at the foot of the mountain. 43 people were killed, including 15 children aged 7-15 and an 18-year-old employee. The only survivor was a 14-year-old student. Cavalese police said two cables were crossed and the other was broken. The automatic safety system was able to prevent disaster when the fault was detected, but was turned off when the incident occurred. The four officials involved had to be “reported” for accusations of irresponsibility and a number of other crimes.

When arriving in the area of ​​Phuoc Thanh commune, My Tho city, suddenly hit the motorbike BS: 63AS-023.37, controlled and carried by Mr. Vo Minh Tri (39 years old, living in Phuoc Thanh commune, My Tho city). The daughter is Vo Thi Xuan Mai (14 years old) traveling in the same direction. This passenger car continued to break the roadside lighting post and then stopped 80m from the scene. Being hit, father and daughter fell on the street, the female student died on the spot, a passenger and Mr. Tri were seriously injured and were taken to the emergency room. The scene of the accident The lighting post was turned on and fell along the roadside, the power line pulled across the road was also broken, so the people had to temporarily fix the problem. Relatives of the victim said that Mr. Tri was on his way to school when he was in an accident. At the scene, the school girls’ notebooks were scattered on the road, motorcycles and passenger cars were badly damaged. Passenger car cramped Receiving the news, the Traffic Police Department of Tien Giang province was promptly present at the scene and coordinated with Phuoc Thanh Commune Police and My Tho City Police to regulate traffic and investigate the cause of the accident. Until 9:30 am the same day the scene was completed.

Heavy rain flooded many roads.

About 8:30 ‘, Phan Anh Street, passing through To Hieu intersection (Tan Thoi Hoa ward, Tan Phu district) is still submerged in the sea. The deepest submerged place on this road is more than 50cm.

Dozens of motorbikes died while passing this road and the shops could not open because water flooded into the yard. Fear of stalling, many people turned to find other ways and others stopped on the sidewalk to wait for the sprint.

Similarly, Pham Duc Son (District 8), To Ngoc Van (Thu Duc City), Nguyen Van Block (Go Vap District), Tan Hoa Dong (District 6) … also fell deeply inundated.

On Truong Chinh Street, there are 4 trees tens of meters high that have been gouged off and fell into the street. Also at Luy Ban Bich street, Do Thua Luong (Tan Phu district), there are also a series of trees that have been fallen due to the wind.

The old tree fell down on Nguyen Van Qua street.

In addition, around 5:00 am on the same day, an old banyan tree at the corner of Truong Chinh street – Nguyen Van Qua (Dong Hung Thuan ward, district 12) turned up. Fortunately, early in the morning, the road was empty, so no one was injured after the incident.

Banyan tree with a diameter of about three people embracing, lush green foliage of tens of square meters poured down, taking up Nguyen Van Qua street. This tree has been around for more than 20 years.

Heavy wind caused the fields, though they were not rotten, but could not stand it. Bank guards nearby and residents rushed to the lane, cutting off branches and leaves blocking the lane. Traffic through the congested area early in the morning.

On Truong Chinh road, which belongs to both Dong Hung Thuan and Tan Hung Thuan wards, at least four star trees tens of meters in height are blasted in heavy rain and high winds.

The branches are larger than the adult glove, lush green, showing no signs of decay. Luckily no one was injured.

According to the Southern Regional Hydrometeorology Station, the weather in the Southern region from April 19 to April 23 has scattered showers and thunderstorms, whirlwinds, lightning and strong winds are likely to occur during thunderstorms. /.