编辑同志:看了《山西农业科学》第一期《旱地农业初议》一文,深有同感。山西农业走以旱地为主的道路,不论是从历史上看,或从发展远景上看都应该是肯定的。我曾在有关课题讨论会上呼吁过此事,大家认为论点是站得住脚的,但旱地研究课题很少,人员廖廖无几,究其原因,无非是难度较大,不容易出成果,人们明知重要不愿为之。更主要的是各级领导指导思想不明确,技术政策不合理,没有一套办法扶持、鼓励旱地农业科学研究,这种状况亟待改变。过去我们曾从事旱地小麦育种及山区早地小麦 Editor comrades: saw the “Shanxi Agricultural Sciences,” the first issue of “dry land agriculture,” a text, share the same feeling. The path of Shanxi agriculture based on dry land should be affirmed either historically or from the perspective of development. I once called for this issue at the seminar. We all think that the argument is sound. However, there are only a few topics on dryland research and there are not many people in the study area. The reason for this is that it is more difficult and not easy to produce results. People know that it is important not to do so. What is more important is that the guiding ideology at all levels is not clear, the technical policies are unreasonable, and there is no set of measures to support and encourage agricultural scientific research in drylands. This situation needs to be changed urgently. In the past we have been engaged in dryland wheat breeding and mountain morning wheat