In early September, as rice throughout Yiling District has ripened, villagers made most of the fine weather to work hard in the field, marking the start of the harvest season. In recent years, the locality has been at the forefront of promoting green and efficient farming methods, accompanied by standardized upgrades to farmland. It has also eagerly adopted new rice varieties and pioneered innovative planting models, all in pursuit of stabilizing and enhancing grain production. (Correspondents/Zhang Guorong and Li Ming)