Almost the whole of February, everyone was working in the fields, but there was still machinery to help, and no one raised any questions about saving oil at this juncture, so with the help of a tractor with a plow, the harvest of 1,200 acres of land was still progressing quite quickly.

Except for the sugarcane and sugar beet fields that were temporarily untouched, it took less than ten days for everyone to turn over the 120 acres of land.

The front is turning the ground, the people are following the tractor to collect the peanuts and sweet potatoes together from the turned over land, sixty or seventy people work together, more than ten acres can be harvested in a day, people gather these potatoes and sweet potatoes in a pile on the ground, and finally the pile is higher and higher, and it is magnificent from afar.

Subsequently, under the command of Lao Wang, everyone kept harvesting on this side, and on the other side, they used excavators to dig semi-underground cellars and build storage warehouses on the ground.

At present, the labor force is limited, and the field harvesting operation is already very labor-intensive, so Lao Wang decided to store it on the spot to reduce the labor intensity of everyone.

The remaining fiberglass tile plastic sheeting, woven plastic sheeting and other materials in the cave came in handy.

Since then, various flavors of fried peanuts and roasted sweet potatoes have become snacks for everyone in the following days, especially at night, a group of young people dig a fire pit in the bamboo forest to light a bonfire, and then throw in a few large sweet potatoes or a few potatoes, a few brothers can chat all over the world for a night, as for the daily dishes, not to mention the rest, in short, everyone later got tired of eating fried shredded potatoes, which is a later story.

Of course, only a small part of the harvest is eaten, and most of this harvest is carefully stored by Lao Wang as seeds for the next season, which will be used to expand the sown area of the next crop.

Because the soybean harvest period was a little later, Lao Wang decided to seize this gap and immediately open the ridges and prepare to plant sugar beets.

As for the cultivation of sugar cane, it is estimated that it will be about a month later according to the climate of the island.

So the hard and intense labor began again, in these days, everyone worked continuously, even the Lantern Festival did not have a holiday, the time came to the middle of February, the harvest and storage of peanuts and sweet potatoes and potatoes were successfully completed, after weighing, the average yield per mu reached 3,500 catties, and the yield of peanuts per mu reached an astonishing 900 catties.

The guano and humus accumulated on this island over thousands of years have made the land on the island very fertile, so Master Wang often stands on the ground and says that this is simply a dark and oily land, and any crop planted will get a good harvest.

Immediately after that, it is to rush to harvest and plant sugar beets.

A total of 40 acres of sugar beet fields, with the help of tractor ploughing and ploughing, everyone worked hard together for another ten days, and finally completed the task.

Finally, the sugar cane is harvested.

The so-called harvesting of sugarcane is actually everyone holding a machete and cutting sugarcane one by one.

According to Lao Wang's experience, he believes that when the time comes, this group of farm workers will definitely have work-related accidents, such as accidentally cutting their hands and feet, and if they encounter serious problems, they are afraid that something will happen.

As for the scorching sun from morning to night, bending over and cutting down in the mosquito-breeding wetland, not to mention the labor intensity.

Then Lao Wang counted the construction period with his fingers, and then looked at the group of tired laborers, and suddenly became a little worried.

So Lao Wang called Sun Lao and other people from the General Affairs Coordination Committee and Boss Luo together, saying that he hoped to quickly develop a simple sugarcane harvester to help everyone complete this hard work.

After hearing this suggestion, Boss Luo responded that it is technically okay to assemble a sugarcane harvester with ready-made equipment in the cave, we have a variety of ready-made design materials, and it is not a problem for simple semi-manual harvesting machinery, but do we really need to do this? Isn't it just those dozens of acres of sugarcane? There are many of us working together, so we don't need to develop any machinery, right? You don't know how precious and useless the materials in the cave are!

However, Lao Wang told Boss Luo very seriously that theoretically speaking, if this work is done by pure manpower, it takes five people to cut about two acres of sugarcane by hand, and if 50 people are invested, then the 20 acres of sugarcane can be cut in almost four days.

However, here is a group of recuperated and strong laborers, working in theory.

And our actual situation is obviously not like this, so the work of cutting sugarcane may not only drag on for a long time, but also almost predictably, there will be people who will hurt their hands and feet, after all, this group of people are basically farm work beginners, but also a group of tired beginners, so, or grit your teeth on the machinery, otherwise, once there is a work injury, labor attrition is a trivial matter, I am afraid that it will be a big thing to float people's hearts!

And there is also a problem of the connection of farm work, because after the sugarcane is cut down, the seedlings should be raised in time and planted in the ground, according to the existing preservation conditions, the sugarcane after leaving the soil must not be stored in the open air for too long, otherwise, the cut down sugarcane will be spoiled! In other words, we now have to cut the sugar cane while raising seedlings and planting them, which undoubtedly increases our labor tension, and of course one way is not to cut it all down for the time being, but to stay in the ground and let the land help to take care of these precious sugar cane.

But then the labor efficiency is halved, and the time will be delayed again, not to mention that the agricultural time does not wait for people, drag the time, in fact, for the sake of safety and there is no way to do it, but the most important thing is that according to everyone's current level of fatigue, now let everyone bend over, holding kitchen knives and machetes in a nest to chop sugarcane...... Think about it, this kind of pure manual work, no need to estimate, will definitely make everyone completely tired and overstep.

Lao Wang said with a serious face, after everyone's physical strength is exhausted, it will not only affect the subsequent construction of industrial projects, but also everyone's work and life emotions. Didn't you notice that everyone's temper has gotten bigger recently than it did a while ago? There were more quarrels, and more reticence......

Obviously, the phenomenon of collective overwork is about to appear again!

After listening to Lao Wang's words, both Sun Lao and Boss Luo thought it was true, everyone looked at the group of former high school students, former college students, former white-collar workers and former fat houses who had almost been tired from farm work, as well as the old and weak people present, and the General Affairs Coordination Committee immediately made a decision - Boss Luo led all the science and engineering men, plus Wang Gong, immediately quickly put together a few sugarcane harvesters from the equipment in the cave, even if it was simple, there was also a decision: adjust and slow down the labor rhythm of everyone.

In the end, the General Affairs Coordination Committee formally decided to instruct Boss Wang Gongluo to lead the members of each industrial group to urgently develop, or urgently piece together a few mechanized or semi-mechanized sugarcane harvesters, the time is three days to a week, and during this time, the rest of the people who are not involved in the research and development of sugarcane harvesters should also work in two shifts, work in shifts for six hours a day, and then rest, so as to adjust everyone's work rhythm and ease everyone's nervousness.

And Sun Lao believes that it is indeed necessary to develop sugarcane harvesters, because this is not only to meet the immediate needs, but also the agricultural machinery we need in the future. Don't forget, the next crop of sugarcane will more than double the acreage!

When Mr. Sun announced the above two decisions on behalf of the General Affairs Coordination Committee, everyone couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, while the high school students couldn't help cheering, they were the main force in the farmland, and they were also the most tired group of people.

Many of them also said that these days are embarrassed to let the industry professionals work alone, in the rotation time we are also willing to go to the cave to help to help, after all, it is related to their own personal experience, we all hope to have machinery to help in advance, so as to liberate themselves from the fatigue in the field......