Currently, during the critical autumn harvest season across China, a cross-regional team of over 200 tractors is crisscrossing major grain-producing regions such as Northeast China, North China, and the Huanghuaihai region. Providing integrated services, they are helping farmers accelerate the autumn harvest and ensure a safe harvest.
This cross-regional team, spearheaded by an agricultural machinery cooperative, has members who have received professional training and are familiar with the harvesting processes for different crops and tractor operating procedures. The tractors equipped by the team are not only capable of harvesting but also of performing subsequent operations such as straw shredding and tilling, achieving an integrated "harvest-shredding-tillage" system. At a rice planting base in Wuchang City, Heilongjiang Province, the team begins operations early each morning. One tractor can harvest and handle straw processing for 20 mu (approximately 16 acres) of rice daily, achieving over 20 times the efficiency of manual harvesting.
To ensure the quality of harvesting, the team has established a "segmented responsibility, full-process tracking" service mechanism. Each team is staffed with technicians to promptly address any tractor malfunctions. The team also works closely with local agricultural authorities to develop a scientific harvest plan based on weather changes and crop maturity, preventing adverse weather from impacting the autumn harvest.
"With the cross-regional harvesting team, we no longer have to worry about a shortage of manpower for the autumn harvest. Tractor harvesting is not only fast and clean, but it also shreds and returns straw to the fields, which is environmentally friendly and improves soil fertility," said Li Hongmei, a farmer in Wuchang City. To date, the cross-regional team has completed the autumn harvest on 150,000 mu (approximately 150,000 mu) of farmland and expects to complete its entire harvest by the end of October.
