Yang Futang, an old sugarcane farmer, not only made up his mind to follow Jiagu by himself, but also called his son, who was working outside, back.

"Dad, you're not kidding, are you? Let me come back to farm?" Yang Xuyong looked stunned.

Rural Guangxi, like most rural areas in the country, is also experiencing a severe exodus.

Many young people go out to work and leave the day-to-day management of sugarcane to the elderly, only to return home during the crushing season to help cut and plant sugarcane.

A young man like Yang Xuyong chose the latter in his assessment of the benefits of sugarcane planting and migrant work rather than his passion for working outside the home. After all, compared to growing sugarcane, the income from a part-time job is higher and more stable.

A simple calculation, because sugarcane production is still basically in the era of "slash-and-burn" farming, the biggest expenditure lies in labor costs, cutting cane plus planting, field management and labor, labor input per mu of land to be discounted more than 600 yuan, and then deducting 600 yuan of material input, the net income per mu of sugarcane is only seven or eight hundred yuan a year - it is better to go out to work for a few days to earn more.

Will Yang Futang not know?

He knows that even if the purchase price of sugarcane rises, the income from simply planting sugarcane may not be advantageous compared with part-time work.

But he knows better that most of the people who grow sugarcane in rural areas are over forty or fifty years old, and the post-80s generation will not grow sugarcane at all, and if the mechanization level of sugarcane production has not been significantly improved ten years later, the sugar industry will face the dilemma of a sharp increase in labor costs.

It was because of this that he called his son back.

"You know what a! I'm asking you to come back to sign up for agricultural training at Jiagu Company!"

Yang Xuyong rolled his eyes: "Agricultural training?

Yang Futang glared: "What nonsense, are you going?"

"Hey, go, can't I go?" The old man was angry, and Yang Xuyong didn't dare to brush the tiger's whiskers.

Besides, isn't it training? Let's see what kind of training can be produced.

Yang Futang naturally saw that his son was unconvinced, but he didn't explain much - he learned that the monthly salary plus subsidies for front-line employees like He Jinsong in Jiagu Company was higher than the so-called white-collar income in big cities.

If his son can join Jiagu through training, it will be much more profitable than a part-time job.

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Yang Xuyong signed up to know that Jiagu's training must also pass the assessment before he can participate, but once he passes the training, he can become a regular employee of Jiagu, and the treatment is excellent.

The most important thing is that this agricultural training is really not ordinary farming.

One of the most eye-catching is the training on the operation of agricultural machinery such as large sugarcane harvesters.

He was "shocked" and drove a big car, which he liked.

Sugarcane harvesting in Guizhou Province is mostly manual, and even if agricultural machinery is purchased, it is basically a small harvester, and semi-mechanized and semi-manual harvesting operations are adopted.

Take his own family as an example, in order to save labor costs, he also has to harvest sugarcane every year, which is simply miserable - by hand, by shoulder, cutting down the sugarcane from the roots, removing the cane leaves, tail tips, and tying them into bundles, each bundle is about seventy or eighty kilograms. In this way, each sugarcane farmer carries the sugarcane one by one, shuttles through the sugarcane forest, and unloads the sugarcane from his shoulders to the cart, cutting one ton of sugarcane a day......

Every year during the sugarcane harvest season, everyone has to peel off a layer of skin.

It's good that Jiagu has a big machine, at least an old man who is old doesn't have to work so hard.

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Yang Xuyong passed the assessment and screening as he wished and got the opportunity to be trained in Jiagu.

He and a group of trainees stood in front of a brand-new, large sugarcane harvester, dizzying.

This kind of "big guy", often hundreds of thousands, plus some other supporting equipment, such as transport vehicles, technical support, later equipment maintenance, etc., probably requires more than one million yuan, even if the state gives harvesters purchase subsidies, it is difficult for ordinary farmers to bear.

Qi Zheng looked at these students who were obsessed with large machines and smiled slightly.

The students who can pass the assessment must have the genes of "old drivers" even if they are not "old drivers", and they have the least resistance to this kind of "big guy".

This is John Deere's Sectional Sugarcane Harvester!

John Deere, the world's largest manufacturer of sugarcane harvesting machinery, has been exploring the development of sugarcane harvesters suitable for the domestic market since last year.

Through cooperation with it, Jiagu Sugar Co., Ltd. has designed and developed special cane trucks from the transportation link, and implemented technical transformation of the sugar factory loading and unloading platform, crushing cane trough, tearing machine, etc., so as to realize the effective connection of planting, harvesting, transportation and production - there is no way to make large-scale sugarcane harvesting machines in China, so we can only rely on foreign companies.

With machines comes the need for workers to operate the machines. And these students in front of them, who are at least above high school education, are the reserve seeds.

Qi Zheng faced them and said with a smile: "Hello everyone, I am Qi Zheng, chairman of Jiagu Group, and welcome everyone to participate in the training of Jiagu Sugar." ”

Qi Zheng paused for a moment, and the students' eyes were all attracted, and said: "In our Jiagu Group, front-line employees are the cornerstone. Therefore, we have developed a perfect technical position level and promotion system, the higher the level, the more generous the annual salary and rewards. As long as you are willing to work hard, it is not a dream to become a first-line talent. I hope that you can show your highest level in the training, and I hope that you can work with everyone after the training. ”

The applause, with longing and longing, rang out eagerly.

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After the training began, Yang Xuyong found that what he and others had to learn was not just driving machinery for farming and harvesting.

In addition to learning to operate machinery, they should also combine production and operation projects to strengthen the learning of standardized production management, pest control, agricultural product marketing and other pre-production, production and post-production management services.

Yang Xuyong was a little confused, just driving a harvester, do you need to learn so much?

It's no wonder that there are requirements for cultural level, so much knowledge, without a bit of cultural foundation, the difficulty of learning is really quite large.

However, in addition to some people who have a thin foundation and a thin will, more people grit their teeth and insist on studying.

After the training, they also have to go through the assessment, and only after passing the assessment can they become regular employees of Jiagu - they all know that Jiagu's front-line professional workers are divided into three levels: junior, middle and high, all of which are times the average salary of the market, and in the case of the company's profit exceeding 5% to 7% of assets, they can also get dividends.

In short, the better you learn, the higher your rating, and the better you get.

This is a great opportunity for those of them who came from a farming family.

Moreover, Jiagu's training is not a textbook education, but more combined with practical operation: learn the operation and simple maintenance of harvesters with John Deere's technicians, follow the technical guidance team of Jiagu Agricultural Materials to the sugarcane field for "internship", and follow the employees who have returned from Australia and other countries to experience the advanced achievements of others with pictures and texts......

Yang Xuyong faintly felt that Jiagu wanted to cultivate them into agricultural "all-rounders"?

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Yang Xuyong guessed correctly, their training is part of the Jiagu system's "New Professional Farmer Cultivation Program".

In today's era, most of the "second generation of farmers" choose to "jump out of the farming door", presenting an embarrassing situation that the "post-70s" do not want to farm, the "post-80s" do not know how to farm, and the "post-90s" do not talk about farming.

In this case, the internal integration of the Jiagu system continues to deepen, and the most direct manifestation is the continuous increase in the proportion of front-line skilled workers. The reduced management personnel either go down to the grassroots level to work, or go to the training base, and if they are unwilling, they can only ask to leave.

At the same time, on the one hand, Jiagu encourages front-line workers to strengthen their learning and improve their level, and on the other hand, it focuses on building a new professional farmer training system in Jiagu to cultivate farmer successors in the new era.

"Even if they leave Jiagu, they can become leaders in the development of modern agriculture and leaders in promoting the development of agricultural groups!

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