Zhangye busy preparing for farming season

A worker is busy preparing agricultural machineries. [Photo provided to gozhangye.com]

As spring blossoms, workers in every agricultural machinery production workshop in Zhangye, Northwest China's Gansu province are busy preparing agricultural machineries for the upcoming plowing season.

Zhangye is a national modern agricultural demonstration area and the largest national corn seed production area boasting numerous rivers, abundant sunlight, fertile land and convenient irrigation. It is also an important national production base of grains, vegetables, melons and fruits, oil bearing plants and cattle and sheep.