On May 20, the national summer harvest and summer planting meteorological service was officially started.

Spring's plowing has had a bumpy harvest in May.

The "Vegetable Garden" Pingshan ecological floating island in Qiandao Lake, Chun'an County, Hangzhou, Zhejiang had a bumper harvest, and the staff harvested the fresh watercress in sunny days. Photoed by WANG Jiancai

Since the Solar Term of Grain Buds, the temperature has risen, rain has increased, and grapes have been in a critical period of growth. On May, 21, fruit farmers seized the agricultural time to be busy with grape thinning, pruning and other care work in Yueqing, Wenzhou, Zhejiang. Photoed by CAI Kuanyuan

On May 19, Gaodu Village, Siyang County, Suqian City, Jiangsu, began summer harvest. It is understood that more than 720,000 acres of wheat in Siyang County this year have successively matured and entered the harvesting period, and farmers seized the sunny weather to harvest wheat. Photoed by LI Yejin

On May 21, at a wheat seed breeding base in Qiaozigou Village, Xincheng Town, Xiangfen County, Linfen, Shanxi, agricultural technicians operated on plant protection drones to carry out fly-control operations on wheat in order to improve wheat's ability to resist drought and conserve moisture, and to prevent dry and hot wind. Photoed by LI Xianjun

From May 13 to 14, Shandong Provincial Climate Centre, together with Henan Provincial Meteorological Research Institute and Tai'an Agricultural Meteorological Experiment Station, carried out a modern agricultural meteorological experiment in the main winter wheat production area of Tai'an, Shandong. The picture shows the staff were measuring the leaf area and chlorophyll content of wheat. Photoed by ZHANG Qian

On May 21, staff of Xijiang County Meteorological Office used a small weather station to collect meteorological data at a planting base of a forest tree seed farm in Ji'an, Jiangxi. Photoed by CHEN Fuping

Editor: JIANG Zhiqing