On November 18, Liu Jie, a villager in Huangdun village, Huining County, Anhui province, was busy transporting 3,700 kilograms of rice, which had just been harvested and was still wet, to the farm of Xu Fuyun, a major grain farmer in the village.
Why did Liu Jie send his own grain to Xu Fuyun's farm? "The large dryers on the farm dry the rice so it doesn't get moldy even when it rains." The quick and eloquent Liu Jie speaks the truth.
So how did Xu Fuyun think of buying a grain dryer? This goes way back before 2012. Through land transfer, Xu Fu became a well-known grain farmer in Huangdun Town, and he planted more than 2,000 acres of rice and wheat every year. "After the early rice harvest, the water content of the rice is higher, and the rain is more, the rice is easy to germinate and mold." Speaking of the drying of rice before, Xu Fuyun is helpless. Even in fine weather, he had to harvest and dry the grain at the same time, and there was no time to do both; And it takes days to dry the rice. To make matters worse, there is no large grain-drying ground in the village. "In 2010, my rice and wheat went mildew because there was no place to dry them, resulting in a direct economic loss of more than 400,000 yuan."
In 2012, Xu Fuyun inadvertently saw the news about grain dryers, and he resolutely invested 2.4 million yuan to buy two large dryers. Sure enough, these two dryers in the continuous rainy weather in 2013, have a place to use, a large dryer can dry an average of 50 tons of food per day. Xu Fuyun pinched his fingers and carefully calculated an account: before drying rice, not only limited by the site, but also ask people to help dry. Generally drying takes 3 days, the labor cost is 10 cents/kg, 50 tons of rice to spend 5,000 yuan; The current machine drying cost is 6 cents/kg, and the drying cost of 50 tons of rice is 3,000 yuan, and the cost is 2,000 yuan lower than before. "Also, in the past, the rice was dried on the ground, because the chickens and ducks pecked at it, which was a great waste." Now with machine drying, you don't have to worry about that anymore."
See the rice sent by Liu Jie soon dried, Hu Zuzhi, a villager in Jiangling village, Huangdun Town, also harvested more than 30 tons of rice, all pulled to Xu Fuyun's farm. Hu Zuzhi said: "The dryer can completely dry the water of the rice, which is better than natural drying. More importantly, I can now free up more time for other activities, otherwise I lose another day and I don't know how much money."
Talking about the benefits of grain dryers, Qian Shiping, director of the Agriculture Committee of Huining County, said: "The use of these equipment, on the one hand, can save labor and cost, on the other hand, can effectively enhance the ability of farmers to resist natural disasters and ensure food security." At present, our county is mainly to guide large grain farmers such as Xu Fuyun to solve the rice drying problem by buying dryers, hoping to drive farmers to voluntarily use them."
Zheng Jiuhan, head of the county's agricultural machinery Bureau, introduced that in order to improve the enthusiasm of farmers to grow grain and solve the problem of grain drying for farmers, especially large grain farmers, on the basis of national agricultural machinery policy subsidies, Huining County also gives strong support to large grain farmers in terms of machine selection, technical services, and financing. "The government subsidized 70,000 yuan for the two dryers I bought last year." "Some of the big grain farmers I know can still borrow money to buy dryers through financing platforms established by the government," Mr. Xu said proudly. It is reported that there are currently more than 10 family farms in Huining County with grain drying equipment, with 70 sets of large and small grain dryers.