CCTV News:Facing the challenge of rain, in 2024, Funan County required 5 days to harvest 1.27 million mu of wheat. How to achieve this?
During the wheat harvest in Funan County, the sources of local combine harvesters were mainly more than 70 planting subjects. In 2024, the cooperative run by Xu Songsong, a new farmer born after 1990s, organized 62 combine harvesters to take part in the harvest. He alone can harvest 50,000 mu of wheat.
It is understood that the total number of combine harvesters in Funan County in 2024 is 3,780, which is 572 fewer than 4,352 in 2023, but the wheat harvest efficiency will be slightly faster.
"Agricultural Machinery Command" grabs time for wheat harvest
In order to improve the overall efficiency, the local agricultural department turned the "Sanxia" service station located at the intersection of the expressway into the headquarters of agricultural machinery dispatching.
In order to let the cross-regional operators have jobs when they come, the local agricultural department has set up a "three summers" cross-regional operation reception station at the exit of the high-speed toll station in Funan.
Here, the staff not only simply records the relevant information of the robot, but also introduces them to the local wheat harvest progress and helps to formulate the operation route.
At present, the small plots of wheat planted by retail investors in Funan County have been basically harvested, and the large plots will be harvested in two days.
In Anhui province, at present, 852 comprehensive agricultural service centers and 765 emergency operation teams have been built to fully guarantee the wheat harvest.
Grain drying wheat "does not touch the ground" from the ear head to the warehouse
In response to rainy weather, in addition to harvesting and drying facilities, it is also playing a role. Some areas in Shouxian County, Anhui Province belong to the flood storage area of Wabu Lake. In 2024, the local area changed the traditional mode of "drying on the ground" and then "bagging", and the drying equipment allowed the wheat to be stored without touching the ground.
In the wheat field of Zhang Qifeng, a large grain grower in an feng, Shouxian County, Anhui Province, nearly 60 sets of various agricultural machinery are working at the same time. At this time in 2023, in order to harvest more wheat before the rain, Zhang Qifeng and the agricultural machinery workers worked together all night.
At 10 o’clock in the morning, the sky was overcast and it was about to rain, but Zhang Qifeng was not prepared to stop harvesting. The same plot, the same crops and similar weather, Zhang Qifeng’s choice is different.
Zhang Qifeng introduced that in the second half of 2023, with the support of the national special subsidy for benefiting farmers, he built his own grain drying tower, with a daily drying capacity of 500 tons, which became the biggest confidence to deal with rainy weather in 2024.