Let the sugarcane farmers regain confidence. What can agricultural machinery companies do?

[ China Agricultural Machinery Industry News ] In recent years, China's sugar production costs are significantly higher than the United States, Cuba, Brazil and other major sugar-producing countries in the world, and the important way to reduce the cost of sugar cane production is to realize the mechanization of sugar cane as soon as possible. However, as far as the current situation is concerned, the mechanization of sugarcane in China is a mechanized harvest.

Let the sugarcane farmers regain confidence. What can agricultural machinery companies do?

December 10-11, in the 2016 China Sugarcane Mechanization Expo held in Liuzhou, Guangxi, Zoomlion, Guangxi Liugong, Jiangsu Wode, Hebei Shenghe, Jifeng Agricultural Machinery, Case New Holland, John Deere More than 100 well-known agricultural machinery manufacturers at home and abroad have participated in the exhibition, which has attracted great interest from agricultural machinery.

After years of development, the harvest of sugar cane has gradually changed from manual cutting to mechanized operations, but the high purchase price and rugged mountain terrain have discouraged most sugarcane farmers. As we all know, the sugarcane harvest in Brazil, Australia and the United States in the main sugar-producing areas of the world has basically been mechanized, and the mechanization level of sugar cane has also developed rapidly. As far as production companies are concerned, today's foreign companies researching sugar cane machinery are mainly concentrated in Case and John Deere. The advantages of their products are mature and advanced technology, humanized design, rate operation and intelligent operation. These products are in foreign markets. Got a good promotion and application. At the same time, in order to further expand the Chinese market, the two international giants have set up factories in China to develop products that adapt to the development of China's sugarcane mechanization. For example, Case developed a small-scale segmental sugarcane combine harvester for the Chinese market, John. The 200-horsepower cut-type sugar cane combine harvester developed by Deere also makes the sugarcane farmers love it. However, compared with the domestic machinery price, the price of the sugarcane harvester of these foreign-funded enterprises is several times higher, so that the ordinary sugarcane farmers are looking forward to mechanized harvesting of sugar cane, but they are full of helplessness.

Looking at the domestic agricultural machinery enterprises, the research and development of sugarcane joint planting, harvesting and shipping equipment, although the development has been carried out, the equipment ownership has also increased to some extent, but there are still problems such as low operating efficiency, unstable performance and poor reliability. Some sugarcane harvesters have a loss rate of up to 20%, which seriously affects the quality of sugar cane and reduces the income of sugarcane farmers. In addition, the price of sugar cane harvester is millions, but the utilization rate is low and the cost recovery cycle is long, which has hit the enthusiasm of sugarcane farmers to a certain extent. At present, although colleges and universities and research institutes have begun to pay attention to and develop sugarcane machinery, there is a shortage of talents, weak technical strength, and certain blindness, which is likely to cause homogenization of products and slow innovation of innovative technologies.

Let the sugarcane farmers regain their confidence, what can agricultural machinery enterprises do? The author believes that on the one hand, we must encourage and select enterprises and research institutions with certain technical reserve forces to form synergies, realize resource sharing, enhance innovation consciousness, increase introduction, absorption and innovation. Strength, promote the development and production of new models. On the other hand, in the face of the fact that most of China's sugar cane is planted on dry slopes, the sugarcane field is small, the slope is large, and the machine farm road is not smooth, etc., it should be introduced, researched, developed, produced and promoted to apply sugarcane production after rain and slope. Mechanized new technology and new equipment to achieve the combination of large, medium and small models. More importantly, it is necessary to improve the technical level of domestic large and medium-sized segmented sugarcane combine harvester based on the characteristics of cut-type harvester in China, focusing on key technologies such as cutting and conveying, impurity separation and harvester automation. Carry out the research.

Fortunately, at this exhibition, we have seen that both domestic agricultural products like the John Deere CH530 sugarcane harvester and the domestic sugarcane production enterprises that are as popular as the Zoomlion AS60 sugarcane harvester have gradually The models suitable for the mechanization of sugarcane in Guangxi and other regions have brought people's vision. Perhaps in the near future, the mechanized harvest of sugar cane will be as easy as corn and wheat harvest, let us wait and see.