Chapter 1791: Cotton harvester

Although it is not time to start work yet, the two are chatting, and the preparatory work must be done.

For example—

"Now cotton should be harvested, I'll take you there later."

Cotton?

Qiaoqiao was a bit confused: "The ones planted there before, had to wait until October to pick."

But he wasn't sure, because that was a memory from childhood, and not many were planted.

Officer Xiao Yang was also a bit puzzled, how did he remember that cotton is indeed harvested from September to November!

At this moment, he clicked on the large screen in front, stretched the map, then checked the cotton area, and only then opened the detailed introduction, and understood after scanning twice:

"Oh, our main business is agricultural machinery! Agricultural machinery missing the season may delay a year, so here is planted 【Zhongmian Institute 141】, this is an extremely early-maturing summer cotton, can be harvested in 95 days, just in season in July and August."

"This one can also be planted there, there is also 【Yumian 703】, which is also very suitable."

Pulling down the agricultural machinery introduction, I saw a huge machine, as if equipped with a nine-tooth nail rake in front, standing majestically at this moment.

Yang Zhengxin pulled out the picture and rotated the angle to explain to Qiaoqiao:

"This model is our six-row cotton picking integrated machine released a few years ago, the benefit is that it can harvest five or six hundred mu of cotton a day, from picking to shelling to packaging, integrated operation."

"The disadvantage is that it is expensive, one machine is about 7 million. Now there are corresponding assistance policies, can be interest-free loan installments, but think about it, 7 million! Basically no farmers buy this themselves, they all rent others, about 200 per mu, specific market conditions look at the year."

"Another is that fuel consumption is huge, driving this machine, there must be an oil truck waiting on the side."

"And because this comb-like mode is to harvest rows of cotton from the branches, then saw-tooth rotating shaft breaks it, then use a large blower to separate, package... the cotton made this way has damage to the cotton wool, many impurities, and needs manual sorting later."

"If the requirements are particularly high, underwear and bedding will not choose this kind of cotton, because in the process of breaking the shell, the wool is damaged."

However, now in the border cotton production area, basically this kind of machine operation is used, otherwise waiting for manual, a few dozen jin a day, it won't be finished in a few months.

He looked at Qiaoqiao who was exceptionally focused, at this moment slightly let go of the position, let him stand in front of the screen to look at various introductions, and he stood on the side to supplement:

"Our task in these two years is to reduce the damage to the wool when this integrated machine breaks

Below, there was also a video of a cotton picker machine in operation.

Qiao Qiao clicked on it and watched it earnestly, his heart full of envy at this moment:

"This is such a huge piece of land, and so flat! We can't use this where we are."

Yang Zhengxin smiled: "Your place isn't a main cotton-producing area—though there are three-row machines used by small farmers; they are much smaller than this machine, and the combing teeth in the front are half as many."

Correspondingly, the efficiency is also significantly lower.

However, even the smallest three-row machine couldn't be used where Qiao Qiao is, so Xiao Yang patiently waited for Qiao Qiao to finish watching, then said with great interest:

"Let's go! I'll take you to the theoretical training class first."

This type of agricultural machinery requires a professional license, a 【Wheeled Combine Harvester Driver's License】, and also an 【Agricultural Machinery Operation Skills Certificate】.

Neither of them has a license, and one hasn't reached the age to get one, so the "driving agricultural machinery" Xiao Yang mentioned is actually about getting on the vehicle as a co-pilot during the harvest—

A single agricultural machine like this can be equipped with two main drivers and two co-pilots.

Then, when only a little bit is left, the two of them can try their hand at it under guidance.

But even so, Qiao Qiao was satisfied, and at this moment, he entered the room next door with Xiao Yang. He saw him tinker with the computer for a few moments, and the teaching video began to play on the screen.

Xiao Yang also explained to him: "We have professional drivers, but because the certificates are universal, they are responsible for testing all machines. To ensure operational efficiency, they have to come and review every time they start work."

"Besides, there are regular exams too."

Qiao Qiao stared at the teaching on the screen without blinking, nodding at this moment, no longer able to pay attention to these detailed explanations.

Yang Zhengxin watched for a while too, but since he had been hanging around the R&D center since he was a child, he remembered the operation mode after a few glances and soon got distracted again.

Qiao Qiao was so focused that he didn't disturb him, and went outside to look at the work logs from the past few days. Sure enough, besides cotton, there was also a task for harvesting daylilies.

Daylilies are harvested continuously, and they can only be harvested manually.

The planting area for this is not large, and the demand for machinery is not high, but enterprises always want to stay ahead of human needs, so it is also treated as a separate direction.

—And it can only be a direction.

Because there are multiple daylily flowers on every stem, and their maturity varies, it is impossible to harvest them all over a large area; it can only rely on manual labor.

However, nowadays, there are even fixed-point single-flower cotton picking robots abroad—it's just a small machine standing in front of the cotton, with multiple claws. It uses a rotating drill, vacuum, and rotational suction to pick the cotton inside the cotton boll individually.

It's just like their R&D direction for daylily picking; it's purely for observation.

After all, manual cotton picking can yield sixty or seventy jin a day, and as much as eighty jin for some. What about that robot?

The group looked at it in a meeting; it's 50 jin a day.

But to say that this kind of research and discussion is meaningless is not entirely true.

After all, at the beginning of industrial development, the power of steam was only used on the lid of a teapot.

But—

Xiao Yang pulled up the introduction for daylilies again to take a look.

Although harvesting requires a lot of manual labor, firstly, it can be harvested continuously; secondly, the cost of management during the planting and growth period of daylilies is very low; it is basically extensive cultivation.

Thinking about it carefully, it is also very suitable for Qiao Qiao's family!

It doesn't matter if there isn't enough land; anyway, many crops cannot be continuously cropped. Adjusting the varieties every year should also be feasible, right?

Wouldn't his own family have especially delicious pickled daylilies then?!

Xiao Yang thought for a while, then opened the various experimental varieties currently in the farm to see if there were any he particularly liked, deciding to prepare the materials well to send to Song Tan!

And there is the R&D of various small agricultural machines.

This is not purely to cope with land development in mountainous and hilly areas.

Now, urban employment is tight and environmental pressure is high, but a large amount of farmland in rural areas is left abandoned... In the next few decades, with the decline in the number of newborns, perhaps a large number of urban populations will return to their hometowns...

What if they also want to farm?

What if their weak bodies can't dig the land, and they need some cheap, practical, and easy-to-operate small agricultural machines?

For example, those single-person handheld rotary tillers on the internet that can't plow deeply at all.

It feels like this is also a very good direction...

Xiao Yang fantasized happily for a while; if it weren't for his plan to start a game business during college, he would really want to develop in this direction too.

He, too, has the potential to become the head of a research center!

?? 1818 Golden Eye, hey!