Countermeasure and Suggestions for Developing Water-saving and Efficient Agriculture in Western Semi-arid Area of Heilongjiang Province

The semi-arid area in the west of Heilongjiang province is an important productive basement of commodity grain and livestock production.The development of water-saving and efficient agriculture is an important guarantee of agricultural sustainable development in the semi-arid area.There were some problems in western semi-arid area of agriculture water resources in Heilongjiang province,including the low proportion of water-saving irrigation area,poor awareness of water-saving,lack of water-saving infrastructure and backward water-saving technology.Some strategies and countermeasures were put forward to promote the development of saving water for highly effective agriculture,such as advocacy efforts to increase awareness of water-saving,raising the level of technology,management mechanism innovation,increasing investment in water-saving agriculture.