Organic Farm Author: Farmer is flying

Chapter 58: Harvesting

At noon, Director Chen invited Tian Chuan and his entourage to have a meal in the canteen of the field department, and in the afternoon, everyone began to inspect and assemble the machine. The process went smoothly, it took less than two hours, and a harvester was ready to work and drove next to the wheat field.

Tian Chuan called out to Zhang Aiguo, who was already about to drive into the wheat field, took out a bottle of Moutai from his backpack, and said to everyone: "This is the first actual combat exercise of the small agricultural machinery developed by our company, which is of great significance, let's celebrate it and take a commemorative photo." As he spoke, he opened the cap of the bottle and handed the wine to Professor Zhao first: "Professor Zhao is the chief designer, so he should take the first sip." ”

Professor Zhao pushed: "The harvester is completely Mr. Tian's creativity, and the design has also gone through a lot of your guidance. Tian Chuan said: "Professor Zhao, don't be modest, you led the students to draw the design drawings one by one, and forgot to sleep and eat in the production line to try to produce the prototype, we all saw it." Come on, take a sip. ”

After that, Xu Huaili, Chen Xiongchangchang, Ding, Tian Chuan, Peng Jian and Zhang Aihua, a circle down, a bottle of wine went down a small half, Tian Chuan poured the rest on the harvesting shears of the harvester, and said: "Man, behave well, give our company a good start." ”

After Tian Chuan beckoned everyone to come to the harvester to take a group photo, the irrelevant personnel stepped back, and Zhang Aihua drove the machine and started the first field test. The whole process was filmed by Peng Jian holding Tian Chuan's newly purchased camera, especially the details of the harvest, Peng Jian was meticulous in filming, which will be a nirvana for improving the machine in the future, reporting results, and promoting publicity.

After harvesting a piece less than two meters wide, the machine was stopped, and everyone began to check the harvesting situation, weigh the wheat, check the condition of the machine, and everything was normal, and then start the next harvesting test.

In this way, the experiment lasted for two days, and the first ripe wheat had been harvested. We tested various working conditions such as high speed, low speed, flat land, slope land, etc., and obtained various indicators such as harvesting loss rate, harvesting work efficiency, fuel consumption per mu, etc., and the overall condition of the machine made Tian Chuan more satisfied.

At the same time, some problems in the design and manufacture of the machine were also discovered through the experiment, and Professor Zhao and XCMG took advantage of the next batch of wheat to mature a few days before the harvest, with the help of machinery and equipment in the farm's maintenance workshop.

Tian Chuan received a call from Liu Xiaojun, and he had already made an appointment with Xing and Zhang to meet Tian Chuan the day after tomorrow. Tian Chuan had already seen the ideal test results, so he no longer stayed here, and immediately rushed to Haikou to take a plane back to the capital.

Jiang Jianbing went to the airport to pick up Tian Chuan, and the two rushed to the city, went straight to the Beijing Film Studio, and found an editor introduced by Li Tao to edit the dozen or so videotapes that Tian Chuan brought back, and edited them into two kinds of introduction films, five minutes and half an hour, and a one-hour operator training film. At the same time, the incomplete videotape about the VOD brought by Jiang Jianbing was also edited into a five-minute introductory film.

The editing work lasted for a day and a night, and this young editor named Yu Zhen was very dedicated. Tagawa stayed by his side and watched him adjust again and again until he was finally satisfied. After finishing, Yu Zhen handed over a few CDs to Tian Chuan, and took the rich red envelopes sealed by Tian Chuan to rest.

Tian Chuan found someone to copy some of the discs, returned home before dark, slept well, and took Jiang Jianbing to Yongyang the next morning.

Liu Xiaojun has already gone to work at the county government office. Tian Chuan arrived at the newly built county government building at half past nine as promised, and Liu Xiaojun led them to a small conference room. Tagawa asked, "I brought some video materials, can I play them?" VCD or video tape. ”

Liu Xiaojun asked Tian Chuan to wait for a while, went out by himself for a while, and came in with a man in his thirties with glasses. He introduced Tian Chuan and the others: "Tian Chuan, Xiao Jiang, this is Section Chief Song Zhongyang, the secretary of County Magistrate Xing, you can just call Section Chief Song." He pointed to Tian Chuan and said to Secretary Song: "Secretary Song, this is my little junior brother, Tian Chuan, the honorary president of the Alumni Association of County No. 1 Middle School." This time, he reported to the leader, and there were about five minutes of video material, so it was inconvenient to play it?"

Secretary Song said: "Xiao Tian's contribution to the county No. 1 Middle School fund project is obvious to all, and County Magistrate Xing has also seen you at the establishment ceremony of the fund. This time, your new agricultural machinery and tourism picking project, the county magistrate Xing also attaches great importance to it. You have video materials, it should be playable, we have VCD and projection playback equipment in the second conference room, let's go there. ”

"Thank you, Section Chief Song. Tian Chuan and Jiang Jianbing hurriedly stood up, followed Secretary Song out of the small conference room, and came to the second conference room on another floor. This is a medium-sized meeting room with a large conference table that can seat twenty people. Secretary Song made two cups of tea for the two of them from the water dispenser, and said to them: "County Magistrate Xing has a meeting now, and it is estimated that he will not be able to come over until about half past ten, so you should wait patiently for a while." Do you know how to use VCDs and projectors? If you can use them, you can prepare them first. ”

Tian Chuan and the two hurriedly got up to thank him, and Tian Chuan said: "I will use it, Section Chief Song is busy in advance, don't worry about us." ”

Secretary Song went out, and Liu Xiaojun said: "It seems that County Magistrate Xing really attaches great importance to you, and it is rare to see Secretary Song so enthusiastic about people." Tagawa said, "Then we'll have to behave well in a while." Brother Liu, if you have something to do, go get busy first, and we'll look for you when we have something. ”

When Liu Xiaojun also went out, Tian Chuan found the remote control, turned on the projector, put down the curtain at one end of the conference room, and connected the VCD machine for debugging, and it would soon be played smoothly. He watched the five-minute and half-hour introductory films separately, and the commentary in the introductory film was added by Tian Chuan when he was editing, and it was dubbed by himself, and his Mandarin was not bad, but after all, he was not a professional announcer, and the effect was not very good. Now it seems that we can only wait for the VOD to be completed and then ask a professional announcer to re-dub it.

While adjusting the VCD machine, he said to Jiang Jianbing: "Jianbing, if the county sets the new agricultural machinery as a key promotion product this time, then there will be a lot of dealings with the county in the future." I have too many things to do, and in the future, it will be mainly up to you to run this part, and try to have a good relationship with the county leaders. Liu Xiaojun just now is the deputy director of the county government office, and I have nothing to do with it, so you can find him if you have something. In addition, the vice chairman of the county CPPCC* is the chairman of our No. 1 Middle School Alumni Association, and he is also his own person. Jiang Jianbing is beginning to be immune to Tian Chuan's exaggerated ability to make connections, and since Tian Chuan has introduced, he can follow and maintain the relationship.

At half past ten, Secretary Song walked in with a thermos water cup, placed the water cup on the main seat, and said to Tian Chuan and the others: "The leader will be here soon." Then he walked out of the door, and after a while, two middle-aged people walked in, and the one walking in front should be the county magistrate Xing, who was in his forties, tall, and polite. Walking behind, the person holding the water cup was in his fifties, not tall, sturdy, with a dark face and a serious face, it should be Deputy County Magistrate Zhang.

Tian Chuan and Jiang Jianbing had already stood up to greet them, and Secretary Song introduced the two: "This is the county magistrate Xing, and this is the deputy county magistrate Zhang," Tian Chuan saw the county magistrate Xing stretch out his hand, and quickly stretched out his hands to shake hands with the two leaders: "Hello County magistrate Xing, I am Tian Chuan...... Hello County Mayor Zhang," he pointed to Jiang Jianbing and introduced: "This is Jiang Jianbing, the general manager of our machinery company, who is mainly responsible for the sales of products. ”

After everyone sat down, County Magistrate Xing spoke first: "Xiao Liu of the county office said that Xiaotian wants to run a rural museum, which is a good thing, and our county will support the spontaneous construction of cultural projects by farmers." So I would like to ask you to come and introduce the construction ideas of this museum, we are here, and see if we can give you some useful suggestions. Later, I heard Xiao Song say that you still have two agricultural projects to report to Deputy County Magistrate Zhang, and I am also interested in this, so I will come over and listen to it together. Lao Zhang, you talk about the agricultural project first, this is the right thing, don't worry about me, I'll be a listener first. ”

Deputy County Magistrate Zhang was concise and said directly: "Tian Chuan, let's talk about the agricultural machinery project first, let's start." ”

Tian Chuan stood up and said: "County Magistrate Xing, County Magistrate Zhang, our Guangming Machinery Manufacturing Co., Ltd. was established in February last year after purchasing a township-run agricultural machinery factory in Tongzhou, Beijing. In fact, before the company was founded, I had already worked with Professor Zhao Jiawei from the School of Mechanical Engineering of the National Agricultural University to develop small automated and semi-automated agricultural machinery suitable for our North China region. The first projects to be developed included rice and wheat harvesters, corn bean seeders and mulching machines. Three days ago, the harvester has completed the field test and test in Hainan, the on-demand planter has also been successfully finalized, and after the field test, the mulching and ridge machine will also be finalized at the end of March. Before the Spring Festival, under the personal leadership of General Manager Jiang, our sales staff traveled to most counties in the North China Plain to conduct market research and pre-sale, and have obtained hundreds of sales reservations. Now the first batch of genuine machines will roll off the assembly line at the end of February, and by that time the daily output will be about 50 harvesters, or 100 on-demand machines. ”

"I have here a video taken by the harvester a few days ago when it was tested in Hainan, and yesterday I asked someone to edit it, there are two versions of five minutes and half an hour, please take a look at the two leaders. With that, Tagawa put the five-minute version of the disc into the VCD player and began to play.

In the photographic materials, the first thing shown is the harvester at work. I saw that the harvester was driven by a tractor, probably moving at a human pace, and the two-meter-wide wheat ridge turned into crushed wheat straw and discharged from the rear of the machine, and the wheat grains flowed out of the grain outlet on the side of the machine, and soon, a wheat field was harvested. At this time, the parameters of the machine were introduced, including the loss rate, work efficiency, fuel consumption and other parameters were listed one by one, and these data were measured during the test in Hainan and compared with the input parameters at the time of design. Finally, the film shows the efficiency of the harvesting methods that are currently widely used in the region, and compares the advantages and disadvantages of the two methods.

When the video was played, Deputy County Magistrate Zhang was a little excited, he said: "Combine harvesters have been available as early as the fifties, but they are only suitable for production on large farms, and cannot be applied on small plots like ours. Every year during the wheat harvest season, I, the deputy county magistrate in charge of agriculture, have to have bad food and sleep for more than 10 days. If we had a harvester in the field, it would be much easier to harvest the wheat, and I think the farmers would welcome it. Then he asked Tagawa, "What about the price of this harvester?" Can it be popularized by farmers?"

Tian Chuan replied: "The temporary price of the harvester is 8,500 yuan, and each machine can harvest about 100 acres per day. The average village in our county is about 1,000 acres, and two machines can complete the harvesting work within 5 days. If you charge 40 yuan for each mu of wheat harvested, after deducting the oil money and machine maintenance costs, you can recover the cost in a year, and you can also have a surplus. At the same time, the tractor as a power can also be used to drive other agricultural machinery, and it can also be used for transportation during the slack season, so the tractor is not included in the cost here. Therefore, if one household in each village buys agricultural machinery and provides services to the whole village, it can meet the needs of wheat harvest. Our harvesters can be purchased with deferred payments, with only 40% upfront and the remaining 60% after one harvest. The part of the later payment is only required to pay a 3% fee as long as it is repaid in the current year. ”

"Good!" Hearing Tian Chuan's introduction, Deputy County Magistrate Zhang said happily: "This kind of sales method is good, and it really starts from the needs of the peasants, solves the practical difficulties of the peasants, and can be popularized." The county magistrate Xing also said: "This sales method is good, will it affect your company's capital action?" Tian Chuan said: "No, because of the existence of the 3% interest, we believe that those who have the ability will still choose to pay the full amount directly." ”

Next, the process of introducing the on-demand planter and the ridge mulching machine is also relatively smooth. The application range of these two types of machinery does not seem to be as wide as that of harvesters, but the on-demand planter can not only improve efficiency, but also save seeds, and the advantages of using the on-demand planter are reflected after this part of the cost is calculated. Moreover, the structure of the on-demand planter is much simpler than that of the harvester, and the price is only 4000 yuan, and the difficulty of promotion has decreased a lot.

As the name suggests, this machine has two functions, one is to open high ridges, or trim the vegetable furrow when planting vegetables, and the other is to cover the field with mulch for early spring mulching and planting, and the mulching and ridge furrow can be completed at the same time. The price of 6,000 yuan for ridge mulching machine is not high, but the application range is not too wide. Yongyang County is mainly planted with field crops, most of which are wheat and corn grown in two seasons, and do not need to produce high ridges or mulching. This type of equipment can only be used for growing vegetables, melons, cotton and other crops. It doesn't seem easy to generalize. "In the traditional production method, the work of ridge and mulching is done by hand, which is a lot of work, very heavy and inefficient," says Tagawa. As far as I know, the plots that need to be covered with mulching film generally need to hire short-term workers at a high price, and if you rent this kind of ridge mulching machine, the workload of 3 people and 5 days in the past can be easily completed by 1 person in less than half a day, and the cost only needs less than 1/5 of the labor, and the quality of the work is perfect. In areas where cotton, tobacco, melons and other cash crops are planted in large areas, the application prospects are very extensive. And when the plastic film is covered by hand, it is easy to have the problem of soil compaction, resulting in water loss in the soil and a decrease in temperature, which seriously affects the seedling emergence rate and the survival rate of crops. There is no similar machinery in use in China, this project fills the gap in China, and I am very optimistic about its long-term benefits. ”