Seven reasons to develop a grain dryer

[ China Agricultural Machinery Industry News ] With the changes in the international grain market, the concentration of land circulation to promote the development of large-scale agriculture, and the adjustment of agricultural machinery subsidy policies, the former “small, cold” machine of grain dryer has become hot. It has become the next big blue sea in the agricultural machinery industry.

Seven reasons to develop a grain dryer

China is a large grain producer and consumer in the world, with an annual total output of about 610 million tons of grain. According to statistics, the annual post-harvest loss caused by mildew is as high as 21 million tons, accounting for about 4.2% of the country's total grain output. It is extremely urgent to develop grain drying. “Timely drying and safe storage” is the key link after the whole process of mechanization of grain production to solve the problem of cultivation and cultivation. At the same time, grain drying is of great significance to national food security, agricultural production efficiency, agricultural product quality and farmers' income. The author analyzes the necessity of developing grain dryers from the aspects of traffic safety, food security, agricultural modernization and human health.

First, reduce traffic accidents

Farmers occupy roads for food drying. On the one hand, roads are not smooth, causing accidents such as traffic jams and collisions during collisions. On the other hand, when farmers are drying their food, they set up roadblocks such as glass bottles and bricks on the road. Motor vehicles, electric vehicles and pedestrians can easily cause traffic accidents and accidental personal injuries after hitting roadblocks.

Every year, when the grain is drying, there are many news reports of traffic accidents such as motor vehicles and electric vehicles caused by drying food on rural roads. According to statistics from relevant departments, in areas with high grain dryer penetration rates, the traffic accident rate is far lower than that of food dryers with low penetration rates.

Second, to protect human health

The grain is dried on the road, and some harmful materials such as gravel, glass bottle slag, bird droppings, and automobile exhaust gas are infiltrated into the grain. These harmful substances cannot be completely cleaned during the grain processing process, and are eventually consumed by humans, causing stones directly or indirectly. , stomach ulcers and other diseases.

In areas where there is no dryer, a large amount of grain is too late to be dried and aired, which causes mildew. Some of the mildewed food is purchased by the flour mill to make feed. After being eaten by livestock, the livestock is eaten by humans, which indirectly affects humans. health. There is also some mildew (containing aflatoxin) food directly into the grain processing plant processed into food for human consumption, thereby reducing human immunity, increasing the risk of cancer, thereby reducing human life.

Third, ensure food security

Grain drying has important strategic significance for ensuring national food security and ensuring farmers' income. China's grain is improperly controlled due to moisture after harvest, and the proportion of mildew is above 5%, and the loss is huge. The large-scale harvesting of food concentrates is easy to mold, needs to be dried to be stored and processed, and the drying area in rural areas is reduced. The use of dryers has become an important option to effectively reduce the occurrence of mildew and ensure national food security.

4. Resist the damage caused by natural disasters

Most of China's major grain-producing areas have a seasonal climate with mild climate, moist and rainy. During the harvest season of spring grain, affected by the rain, the summer harvest is also plagued by summer floods and typhoons; the autumn harvest is often rainy and rainy, causing grain deterioration, germination, and mildew, which makes the agricultural production not harvest. The development of grain dryers can improve the ability to withstand natural disasters, solve the problem of food mildew caused by climate, and reduce production after harvesting, so as to ensure a bumper harvest of agriculture.

V. Improve the level of agricultural mechanization

The level of agricultural mechanization in developed countries reached more than 90% before 2000, and China's agricultural mechanization level lags far behind developed countries. As far as the domestic dryer market is concerned, China's grain drying mechanization level is less than 10%, which is the “short board” of mechanization in agriculture. The market gap is over 90%, so improving the market utilization rate of the dryer is in line with China's agricultural modernization. Development path. According to the agricultural and rural economic development goals, grain drying, as an important part of the grain production, cropping, harvesting, drying and other foods that do not land in the storage operation, is the latter with a large workload, short working hours and high operational requirements. In the work link, it is of great significance to realize mechanization of grain drying.

6. Saving land resources

The development of grain dryers can effectively protect cultivated land. With the continuous expansion of land circulation, the rapid spread of combine harvesting equipment has greatly improved the efficiency of harvesting and shortened the harvesting season. The original drying habits have gradually been abandoned. If you do not purchase a grain dryer, large grain growers will have to occupy valuable cultivated land to build a concentrated drying field and employ migrant workers to dry the sun. This will result in waste of land resources and increase labor costs.

7. The government supports the grain dryer to usher in the development opportunity period.

China is a big agricultural country and the state supports, encourages and guides the development of modern agriculture. In recent years, the state finance has earmarked special funds to subsidize farmers and large grain growers to purchase agricultural products such as grain dryers. Some provinces, cities, counties (districts) have also used special financial funds for agricultural machinery subsidies.

It is understood that since 2011, drying equipment has been included in the national agricultural machinery subsidy catalogue and has been heavily subsidized. In some places, such as Fujian, not only strictly implements the subsidy standard of 120,000 yuan required by the national subsidy catalogue, but also has 15 food grain dryers. % of the cumulative subsidies, Zhejiang, Guangxi, Henan and other provinces are added to the national subsidy equal amount of subsidies, reaching 60% of the cumulative subsidy.