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Focus interview: chasing "Feng" New Mack
CCTV news (focus interview): It was the third summer of the year again. Summer grain accounted for one fifth of the annual grain output. It was the first season of the annual grain production, which was of great significance to the annual and overall grain production. Every "three summers", "Maike" is an important helper to help farmers rush to harvest and ensure the return of particles to the warehouse. Huaxian County, the first major grain producing county in Henan Province, has a group of young "New Maike" who are engaged in modern agricultural production in a different way from their parents, and have the ideas, dreams and personality of a new generation of farmers.
Harvesting, sowing, drying, and returning to the warehouse, these days, in Huaxian County, the largest grain producing county in Henan Province, there is a busy scene everywhere. The overall year of this year is good, and the wheat maturity is ahead of schedule. Just into June, the northern area of Henan where Hua County is located ushered in large-scale harvesting operations, two or three days earlier than in previous years.
Sun Danghui is the head of an agricultural machinery cooperative. Like many local young people, he used to work in the city. Over the years, with the rapid development of agricultural production in his hometown, Sun Danghui chose to return to his hometown for farming.
Seeing the increasing demand for mechanization of agricultural production, Sun Danghui and four young people founded an agricultural machinery cooperative in 2013, becoming a "new wheat customer" specialized in providing machinery operation services for farmers.
In the early days of the cooperative, every wheat harvest season, Sun Danghui would temporarily organize several fellow villagers to drive their own harvesters around to help people harvest wheat. The orders were scattered and unstable, making it difficult for the cooperative to develop in the long run.
In recent years, agriculture is developing at a faster pace towards scale and modernization, and the demand for the working method of "Mack" has also changed greatly. In 2020, with the support of local policies, Huaxian Supply and Marketing Cooperative set up a service center for agriculture, which absorbed Sun Danghui's agricultural machinery cooperatives as a whole, so that their agricultural machinery services could participate in the large-scale farmland trusteeship process, and their cooperatives had a stable business volume.
After the integration and transformation of the local farmland, the large harvesters that could not be used in small plots can be put into operation, greatly improving the harvesting efficiency. "New Mackers" like Sun Danghui also have a greater role to play.
Ten years ago, the summer harvest in Huaxian County lasted about 15 days. This year, the large-scale machine harvest of wheat in Huaxian County started on June 3 and completed on June 7, taking only 5 days. The development of modern agriculture has changed the way and rhythm of agricultural production, as well as the work and life of a new generation of farmers.
This year, Sun Danghui's cooperative first used the John Deere large-scale harvester in Huaxian County, with a daily harvesting capacity of more than 400 mu, which is more than twice as efficient as small and medium-sized harvesters.
These "new Macs" not only have new working modes, but also each of their harvesters has a new identity. They should also be strictly managed and do their jobs well with high quality.
In the "three summers", many of the agricultural production teams around the country are young "New Mackerels" with an average age of 20 or 30.
Wang Xiaofeng is a "post-90s". He is the leader of the cooperative's harvester. He is responsible for the operation arrangement and transition scheduling of all harvesters in the team.
A few years ago, Wang Xiaofeng was also driving his own harvester, looking for work from village to village, with low efficiency and unstable income.
Now, large-scale and standardized operations have improved efficiency, while "new Mack" like Wang Xiaofeng no longer need to find work everywhere on his own, just need to drive the harvester and manage the team well. The partners of the cooperative have a clear division of labor in other links, such as maintenance, logistics support and business docking.
Li Xingfu, the operation manager of the agricultural service center, is specially responsible for contacting and docking businesses.
While the farmers of the cooperative were busy harvesting wheat in Henan, Li Xingfu had come to Nangong City, Hebei Province on business, which was the next destination of the harvester team.
As early as more than a month ago, the two sides had reached a cooperation intention. Li Xingfu came here to check the maturity of local wheat, determine the final transition time and cooperation details, and do a good job in the preliminary work for the harvesting fleet.
Compared with the past, the scope of trans regional harvesting of cooperatives has been greatly expanded. From southern Henan to Hebei, then to northeast and Xinjiang, the annual operation time can reach 6 or 7 months in May every year.
Now, a harvester like Wang Xiaofeng has a stable income of more than 100000 yuan a year, so there is no need to find other odd jobs. This also enables the cooperative to train a group of full-time professional harvesters.
Wang Xiaofeng said that compared with their parents' generation, they are the "new Mickey" with more speed and efficiency.
Not only speed, but also passion. These new generation of "Mackay" are more confident about the broad prospects of engaging in agriculture. They pay more attention to updating knowledge at any time than their parents, maintain their own growth, and strive to become more professional and versatile "new farmers".
In addition to full-time agricultural machinery operators, Sun Danghui's cooperative will also contact some retail farmers with small harvesters to join the team during the "Three Summers" period, because some farmers' plots are small and scattered, which is not suitable for large harvesters.
Li Kangwei, 24, is one of them. Three years ago, he began to learn to operate a harvester with his father and uncle. Compared with the older generation, the new harvester driven by Li Kangwei now has a much more comfortable working environment. In hot summer, the cab is also cool, and the operation is more and more simple and intelligent.
This year is Li Kangwei's second participation in summer harvest. He thought it was very interesting to drive the harvester to harvest wheat.
When it is necessary to rush to harvest, Li Kangwei and his uncle will operate the harvester in turn, basically without stopping for 24 hours. Although he worked hard, this young "new Mickey" felt very happy.
In the wheat harvest season, these "new wheat customers" have traveled north and south, all the way to sweat. Everyone's recognition and support for them is the reward of their hard work and the driving force of their deep farming.
In the "Three Summers" season, the "New Michaels" are working hard, and all regions are also trying to mobilize various resources to ensure the smooth progress of the "Three Summers" work. In Huaxian County, relevant local departments have also organized special forces to provide comprehensive services such as agricultural machinery maintenance, meteorology, and power security.
On June 7, the summer harvest in Huaxian County was fully completed.
When the reporter left Huaxian County, in the morning of June 9, the harvester team for the agricultural service center was ready and embarked on the journey to the next operation site - Nangong City, Hebei Province.
Along the way to the north, these young "New Mackerels" will bring the joy of harvest to more villages and sow the seeds of expectation.
"New Mike" has greatly improved the efficiency of wheat harvest. According to the data from the Department of Agriculture of Henan Province, 10 years ago in 2014, the comprehensive mechanization rate of agriculture in Henan Province was 76.3%, and the yield of wheat machine was about 98%. In 2024, the comprehensive mechanization rate of agriculture will rise to 87.1%, and the yield of wheat will reach 99.8%. The development of modern agriculture has changed the way and rhythm of agricultural production, as well as the work and life of a new generation of farmers. We also hope that more "new wheat customers" and "new farmers" will devote themselves to modern agricultural production and pursue the "abundant" scenery in the golden wheat wave.
