Wuxi Agricultural Machinery Bureau assists mechanized harvesting of seabuckthorn in Xinjiang

[ China Agricultural Machinery Industry News ] In recent years, Ahe County, Kezhou , Xinjiang, while increasing afforestation, is actively carrying out the characteristic forestry fruit industry with seabuckthorn as the main planting variety, and has carried out large-scale promotion and planting. There are 4,000 acres of wild seabuckthorn. Artificial Gobi seabuckthorn is nearly 50,000 mu. In 2020, 100,000 mu of Gobi seabuckthorn base will be built. Xinjiang seabuckthorn is a deciduous shrub that grows on the Gobi Desert. It is drought-tolerant and resistant to wind and sand. It has many spines. The fruit is small and the skin is thin and easy to break. The labor used for harvesting accounts for almost 90% of the cultivated seabuckthorn labor. The local farmers and herdsmen are mainly Adopting manual harvesting methods, difficulty in harvesting, high labor intensity, low efficiency, high damage rate, and strong demand for improving the mechanization level of seabuckthorn picking.

In mid-September, Wuxi Agricultural Machinery Bureau, in accordance with the spirit of the leadership of the municipal government, actively implemented the aid to Xinjiang in response to the urgent need for quality improvement and mechanized harvesting of seabuckthorn industry in Xinjiang, and instructed the technical staff of the Agricultural Machinery Promotion Station and Wuxi Huayuan Kama. Experts from the New Product Development Department of Engine Co., Ltd. formed a group of early aid groups to conduct field research in Xinjiang.

In the 10,000-acre seabuckthorn garden in Kulan Sajik Township, through investigations in the field, the research team has mastered the situation that the seabuckthorn fruit in Xinjiang has a large handlelessness, the fruit stem is short and cannot fall off naturally, and the planting management mode is extensive. In combination with the existing picking machinery operation in Xinjiang, the technical personnel of the two places conducted in-depth technical discussions and exchanges, and proposed to carry out technical research and improvement on the basis of Wuxi picking machine, and to solve the problem that mechanized picking is generally difficult and continuous, and it is easy to damage fruit. Easy to leak and other issues. At the same time, through the integration of seabuckthorn cultivation and mechanized harvesting of agricultural machinery and agronomy, we will break through the technical barriers of picking key links, strive to achieve seabuckthorn, low-loss mechanized production mode, improve seabuckthorn picking efficiency, reduce labor costs, and promote cost-effectiveness.

With the rapid development of seabuckthorn industry in Xinjiang and the continuous expansion of application fields, the mechanized harvesting of seabuckthorn in Xinjiang is a new revolution with broad market space and development prospects. At present, the mechanization of the harvesting of seabuckthorn in Xinjiang is in its infancy, and the core technology has yet to be broken. In the next step, Wuxi Agricultural Machinery Department will increase its support, broaden its thinking, clarify the direction of research and development, and focus on 1-2 kinds of mechanized harvesting methods. At the same time, we actively cooperated with Wuxi City to support the working group in front of the Aqiqi County in Kezhou, Xinjiang, to promote the development of seabuckthorn harvesting, improve the production methods and living standards of farmers and herdsmen, and promote the “One Belt and One Road” in Xinjiang. "The construction has achieved tangible development.