Xiong Xuxing, because planting white radish is large in size, it is famous in the vegetable industry. People send the title 'radish king'. When talking about radishes, Lao Xiong always has a topic to talk about, but he talks about how to make radish seeds grow well. The bear relied heavily on agricultural machinery. He came to the Jingsha Cooperative in Jingmen City, Hubei Province. He first took us to see advanced agricultural machinery. 'This is our newly introduced Italian-made planter, the province of technology, and the country’s leading. We have 10 seeders like this, and it's our baby that we grow radishes. "The pride of the old bear is full of words.
In 2009, Lao Xiong set up a cooperative to start cultivating large-scale white radish. The original idea was very simple: the joint farmers in the surrounding area will make up the radish production scale, master the market, and earn profits by making more profits. However, the reality makes it old. The bears are not optimistic. Cooperatives use traditional intensive cultivation to make the radishes of different sizes unequally, and the quality is difficult to meet the market requirements. At the same time, with the expansion of scale, the sowing time is concentrated, the management process is complicated, and the labor cost is too high. , Become a 'bottleneck' that restricts the growth and development of the radish industry.
In the face of heavy pressure, Lao Xiong painfully resolved that: He must change the traditional planting methods, replace mechanization with manpower, and achieve standardization, scale, and cost reduction. He found the agricultural machinery department. 'As long as you need, we can help you to contact experts. Manufacturers, machinery within the scope of the policy, how much we need to arrange for the purchase subsidy, and the “Meditation Pill” given by the Agricultural Machinery Department, the cooperative has invested more than RMB 5 million, purchased large-scale tractors, rotary cultivators, and spreaders. , Rilling machines, seeders, unmanned plant protection machines, radish washing machines and more than 100 specialized machines in more than 10 categories, mechanized operations have covered the key aspects of radish production sowing, management, harvesting, etc. In order to make the machinery have better Adaptability, the Agricultural Machinery Department has also repeatedly visited the cooperatives and researched the mechanical properties, and made adaptations to improve the maximum ergonomics of the machinery. For example, the Italian-made air-suction precision seed drill was combined with the rotary ridge and ridger. The radish sowing, ridging, and pitting were completed in one go. The work efficiency was three times that of a single job.
'A large planter can sow an area of up to 300 acres per day, which is more than 150 times that of on-demand planting. The cooperative's 20,000-mu plant can plant 10 seeds in less than 10 days, at least 15 times ahead of manual planting. In the past year, only two seasons could be planted in the previous year. Now it can be planted in three seasons in a year. A row of ridges can be planted in two rows or one row. Planters can plant seedlings. Mechanical planting plants are evenly spaced and not only conducive to light, ventilation and disease prevention, but also It can ensure that the radish grows consistently, the same size, and the quality is stable. 'The old bear introduced us to the advantages of mechanized operations in the fields.
According to the tracking report of Zhongxiang City Agricultural Bureau, after the mechanization operation, the labor cost for radish planting was only 10% of the original. This alone can reduce the expenditure on cooperatives by tens of millions of yuan each year. The old bear also earns over 10,000 yuan a year because of radish. Ten thousand yuan. 'With agricultural machinery, our cooperatives easily planted 20,000 mu of radish, produced more than 200,000 tons of high-quality white radish, and achieved a sales revenue of 310 million yuan, and added more than 40 million yuan to the members. Mechanized and practical We have created high efficiency. In the next step, we will also introduce the automatic driving system of agricultural machinery with the support of the agricultural machinery department, and gradually realize the intelligent planting of radish. The 'radish king' is full of confidence in the future.