Rebirth of the Industrial Tycoon

Chapter 682 An Agricultural Machinery Revolution

Next to a rice experimental field, there are dozens of various agricultural machines.

Not far away, there are more than a dozen agricultural machinery appraisers who have made preparations.

These dozen agricultural machinery appraisers are all experts from the Agricultural Machinery Appraisal Station of the Ministry of Agriculture.

On the other side, leaders of various agricultural machinery companies also gathered together, waiting for the agricultural machinery appraisal to begin.

This is an agricultural machinery appraisal organized by the Ministry of Agriculture, and the appraisal results will affect whether the agricultural machinery can be included in the agricultural machinery promotion list of the Ministry of Agriculture, so this appraisal is crucial for every enterprise.

Song Chengde saw Yue Ping An in the crowd at a glance.

"This is a test of rice farm machinery. Why is Yue Ping'an here?" Song Chengde frowned slightly.

The so-called specialization in technology, Fukang Agricultural Machinery is an agricultural machinery company in the north. There are almost no paddy fields in the north, and agricultural machinery companies in the north are not good at producing paddy field agricultural machinery. On the contrary, there are more paddy fields in the south, so southern companies are better at producing agricultural machinery for paddy fields.

Those participating in the paddy field agricultural machinery test this time were basically agricultural machinery companies in the south. Yue Ping An's appearance here seemed a bit unexpected.

Someone next to him said: "Although northern companies do not produce paddy agricultural machinery very much. But I heard that Fukang Agricultural Machinery just took a huge order of 5 billion baht from Thailand. Thailand is mainly engaged in rice cultivation. Fukang Agricultural Machinery is likely to come this time. Testing the product sold in Thailand.”

"You mean that kind of hand-pushed small agricultural machinery? I've seen that kind of gadget." Song Chengde looked at the agricultural machinery waiting to be tested in the distance, and then said: "There are no small hand-pushed agricultural machinery in the testing area. ”

Another person said: "Maybe Fukang Agricultural Machinery has developed a new product. As far as I know, the R\u0026D level of Fukang Agricultural Machinery is not bad, and there are precedents for developing new products.

When they were still very small, they became famous by developing agricultural tricycles, and their products were sold all over the country. Later, they developed a cotton harvester, and now the entire construction corps uses their cotton harvesters!

There is also the Thailand Agricultural Expo a few days ago. They produced a batch of small ones, and the sales were even more popular than the large agricultural machinery. I am not surprised at all if Fukang Agricultural Machinery develops any new products. "

Someone next to him continued: "The agricultural machinery identification of the Ministry of Agriculture is getting stricter year by year, and the requirements are constantly improving. In the past two years, it has become increasingly difficult to enter the agricultural machinery recommendation list of the Ministry of Agriculture. If it is not filled It may be difficult for new products that are unavailable in China to be included in this year’s agricultural machinery recommendation list!”

"Who says it's not! But this is also a normal phenomenon. After all, everyone's technology is improving, and the products are naturally getting better and better. Four or five years ago, many technologies were regarded as difficult to overcome by large manufacturers. Now even some Small factories can master it. When it comes to the Ministry of Agriculture, the requirements for agricultural machinery are naturally getting higher and higher," another person explained.

"I have also heard that the Ministry of Agriculture wants to raise its requirements. It is said that this year's agricultural machinery promotion list of the Ministry of Agriculture only gives one quota for paddy field agricultural machinery. And this quota is not stable. If the agricultural machinery participating in the appraisal is relatively mediocre, even this quota None."

"There's only one spot, so we're definitely out of luck this time." Someone immediately showed a disappointed expression.

"We are probably at a loss as well." The other person also shook his head helplessly, then looked at Song Chengde and asked: "Director Song, your Dayang Machinery is a leading company in the production of rice agricultural machinery. Even if you only have one quota, you are very important." It’s fun, tell us what good things you brought this time!”

"It's nothing, it's just a rice harvester." Song Chengde said proudly.

"Rice harvester? It shouldn't be an ordinary rice harvester, right?" the man then asked.

"It just prevented Kubota's 688Q rice harvester from coming out." Song Chengde's expression was as calm as ever, but his tone was full of pretentiousness.

After everyone heard about it, they all showed surprised expressions.

"688Q? Director Song, have you really copied 688Q?"

"Director Song, your Dayang Machinery is awesome. This 688Q is Kubota's core product. Just this rice harvester. I don't know how much money we have made from our country over the years!"

"Director Song, it seems that the domestic rice harvester market will be dominated by your Dayang Machinery in the future!"

While accepting everyone's praise and compliments, Song Chengde put on a humble look and said, "We are only imitating, and have not yet achieved 100% localization. The engines are still from Yanmar. We will wait for the domestic engine technology in the future. Make progress and then seek completely localized alternatives.”

Not long ago, Dayang Machinery once cooperated with Kubota for the 5 billion baht order. Although the cooperation fell through in the end, Dayang Machinery almost broke the capital chain because of this, but during the cooperation process, Dayang Machinery still made money from Kubota. get some benefits.

Song Chengde is the helmsman of such a large company and has been in the business field for many years, so he naturally knows how to make money.

In the process of cooperating with Kubota, Dayang Machinery also stole some technologies from Kubota, and then combined with Dayang Machinery's own technology, pieced together, and actually copied Kubota's 688Q rice harvester.

Kubota's 688Q rice harvester is a fully-feed rice harvester that can harvest, thresh, and unload grain in one package. It can also be equipped with a lawn mower component to cut the straw while harvesting. Due to its excellent performance, this product has always been Kubota's main product. It sells well in many countries, and China also purchases a lot.

Nowadays, Dayang Machinery has successfully copied this product. Although it still uses an imported engine, just by copying the Kubota 688Q brand, it is enough to stand out among the others in today's agricultural machinery appraisals.

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In the paddy field, a boat-shaped agricultural machine drove past. Water spray and mud rolled amidst the roar of the machine, and then quickly became flat.

The surveyor immediately stepped forward and took out his tools to carefully measure the paddy field cultivation conditions.

This is a tractor boat.

There is no muddy feet in the wild lake fields in southern China. In the lake fields in Huguang area, the maximum bearing pressure of the soil does not exceed 1.2 kilograms per square centimeter, and the grounding specific pressure of a small four-wheel tractor must be at least 4 kilograms per square centimeter. Far from it The load capacity exceeds 1.2 kilograms per square centimeter, so wheeled tractors cannot be used in such lake fields.

So the smart Chinese came up with something like a tractor boat.

Called a "boat", it actually means adding a hull shell to the outside of a wheeled tractor. This allows the tractor to float in the paddy field and prevent it from sinking into the mud. Then the driving wheel is changed to a rotary tiller wheel, which can achieve the effect of plowing the land while moving forward in the water.

The ground pressure of the mechanized farming boat is small, and the maximum sinkage will not exceed 3 centimeters. Moreover, it will not be restricted by the mud feet of the paddy fields during work, nor will the mud feet become deeper.

Moreover, in paddy fields, the resistance of the hull when walking is definitely relatively small, so the efficiency of the mechanized tiller is higher than that of ordinary wheeled rotary tillers, and it is also more fuel-efficient.

This agricultural machinery is very simple to manufacture and was promoted on a large scale in the early days of reform and opening up. However, because the structure of the tractor boat is too simple and anyone can make it, there are too many manufacturers of tractor boats and the situation is serious and shoddy. The promotion of this product has been hindered.

Moreover, the efficiency and safety of mechanical tillage boats are not as good as regular rotary tillers.

More importantly, it is difficult for a mechanized farming boat to cross ridges. This is the most fatal shortcoming of a mechanized farming boat.

As an agricultural machine, it loses flexibility due to difficulty in crossing ridges, which greatly limits the scope of use of this agricultural machine.

The mechanized farming boat being tested obviously has a more reasonable layout improvement, making the ground pressure more even and the driving resistance in the paddy fields smaller.

The manufacturer of this mechanized farming boat was also on the side, constantly introducing the improvements it had made to this product. It was obvious that it was very confident in this product.

The test results are indeed very good. This improved mechanized farming boat has much better data than ordinary mechanized farming boats.

Next, it was the turn of Fukang Agricultural Machinery’s tracked self-propelled rotary tiller.

The roar of the machine came from not far away, and the crawler self-propelled rotary cultivator slowly walked into the paddy field.

Everyone turned their heads to look. Although the distance was still a bit far away, the two tracks could still be seen clearly.

"It's a crawler agricultural machine, but it doesn't look too big. Does it use small crawler technology?" Everyone is considered an expert, and they can make a rough guess based on the size of the machine.

Many of the agricultural machinery used in paddy fields use crawler tracks. No one was surprised to see the crawler tracks, but usually everyone sees medium and large crawler track assemblies. Such small track assemblies are rare. .

Immediately afterwards, the rotary tiller started working, stirring the mud in the field, and the sound of "clatter" reached everyone's ears.

"Why is there the sound of water? Is it a rotary tiller?"

"Rotary tiller? Is this a crawler-type rotary tiller?"

"Impossible! The crawler-type rotary cultivator is just a concept!"

When the words "crawler-type rotary tiller" are mentioned, everyone is inevitably a little surprised.

The rotary plow of a rotary tiller is placed at the rear of the machine, so that the land is tilled after the tracks pass over it. If the rotary plow is placed in the front, then the track will press over the land as soon as it is plowed. What effect will it have?

It is also because the rotary plow is placed at the back. When this crawler self-propelled rotary tiller first appeared, everyone only saw the front of the machine and did not see the rotary plow behind it, and they did not know what kind of machine it was.

It wasn't until the sound of mud being stirred by the rotary plow was heard that everyone realized that it was a crawler-type rotary tiller.

When the crawler-type rotary tiller came closer and everyone could clearly see the rotating plow behind it, they were finally convinced that this was indeed a crawler-type rotary tiller!

"It's really a crawler-type rotary tiller! Someone really made this thing!"

"This thing has always been just a concept. Which company made it?"

"A small crawler assembly is used, so it must be a large company with excellent technology."

"There is a trademark on it. Fukang Agricultural Machinery! It's Fukang Agricultural Machinery!"

"Don't Fukang Agricultural Machinery make agricultural tricycles? When did they have the crawler technology?"

"It's amazing! Fukang Agricultural Machinery has made a crawler-type rotary cultivator without making any noise!"

Compared with the previous mechanical tillage boat, the emergence of the crawler-type rotary tiller really gave everyone a big exclamation point.

Everyone is an industry insider and naturally knows what this small crawler-type self-propelled rotary cultivator means.

The traditional wheeled rotary tiller and the rotary tiller each have their own shortcomings. One will damage the muddy feet of the paddy fields, and the other will be difficult to cross the ridges. The crawler-type rotary tiller precisely overcomes the shortcomings of the first two and uses the "perfect" two There are no words to describe it enough.

Once this kind of crawler-type rotary tiller appears, the wheel-type rotary tiller will definitely be completely eliminated from paddy field operations; as for the mechanical tillage boat, it is estimated that it can only be limited to some lake field operations.

“Crawler-type rotary tiller, with this thing, it will be difficult for other similar products to survive in the market!”

"Yes, Fukang Agricultural Machinery is going to make a lot of money this time. With its small crawler assembly, it will be difficult for other companies to compete with them in the rotary tiller market in the next three years."

"With just one more track, it might trigger an agricultural machinery revolution!"

This series of comments fell into Song Chengde's ears, making him very unhappy.

"Don't jump to conclusions too quickly. Don't forget that tracks are easy to use, but they are much more expensive than wheels. The price of this type of crawler-type rotary tiller is definitely more expensive than that of a wheel-type rotary tiller. There are so many, ordinary farmers may not be able to afford them!" Song Chengde immediately poured cold water on them.

But a person next to him said: "Director Song, in our industry, as long as the subsidies for agricultural machinery are sufficient, it doesn't matter even if the price is higher!

For example, even if this crawler-type rotary cultivator is sold for 30,000 to 40,000 yuan, as long as the agricultural machinery subsidy can cover half of it, there will be no worries about sales! Maybe it will even sell out. "

Song Chengde was immediately speechless.

This person is right. The key to selling agricultural machinery products is not based on price, but on subsidies.

The subsidy range for agricultural machinery is relatively large. For larger ones, the subsidy can be half, while for smaller ones, there is no subsidy at all.

If factory A sells a rotary tiller for 20,000 yuan and factory B sells it for 30,000 yuan, then the consumer will definitely buy the one from factory A.

However, factory A only subsidizes 2,000 yuan, while factory B subsidizes 15,000 yuan. After all, the price of factory A is 18,000 yuan, and the price of factory B is 15,000 yuan. Consumers will definitely choose factory B.

Therefore, whether an agricultural machinery can sell well depends on whether the subsidies for agricultural machinery are strong.

Song Chengde also knows this very well, and whether he can enter the Ministry of Agriculture's agricultural machinery promotion list is directly related to the level of subsidies.

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In the evening, Song Chengde carried the gift and came to the hotel where the agricultural machinery appraiser was staying.

The person leading the team this time was a deputy director of the Agricultural Machinery Appraisal Station. This person's surname was Chen. He had been responsible for the appraisal of paddy field agricultural machinery many times and was an old acquaintance of Song Chengde.

So Song Chengde came to Stationmaster Chen's room with ease.

After presenting the gift, Song Chengde explained his purpose of coming, simply hoping that Station Master Chen could take more care of Dayang Machinery's rice harvester.

Stationmaster Chen is also an open-minded person. He said directly: "Director Song, we are old acquaintances, and your products have always been of excellent quality. If I can help, I will definitely help you Dayang Machinery.

Judging from today's agricultural machinery testing, the results are very clear. Your Dayang Machinery imitation of Kubota's 688Q rice harvester is indeed an excellent product, which can be regarded as filling a gap in this aspect in the country.

If there were no crawler-type self-propelled rotary tillers from Fukang Agricultural Machinery, I would definitely report your product to the Ministry of Agriculture without hesitation. It is estimated that it would be a sure thing to be included in the agricultural machinery promotion list of the Ministry of Agriculture.

However, Fukang Agricultural Machinery’s crawler-type self-propelled rotary tiller is also an excellent product. They have also filled a gap in the country. It is not an exaggeration to say that they will lead an agricultural machinery revolution!

There is a saying that makes a good person, but a good thing. The products of both your companies are very good. It’s really hard for me to choose. I don’t know which one to submit. I don’t dare to make such a controversial decision by myself!

So I just called the leader to report the situation. Just before you came, the leader had already issued instructions. This time, our Agricultural Machinery Appraisal Center is only responsible for the evaluation of agricultural machinery and will not make the final decision! "

"Stationmaster Chen, you are responsible for the appraisal of agricultural machinery. You are the most authoritative in this regard. If you don't make a decision, who will make the decision?" Song Chengde asked eagerly.

Stationmaster Chen smiled slightly: "Although we have a certain degree of professionalism in agricultural machinery identification, we are not the most authoritative. If we really talk about authority, we have to look at the experts in the field of agricultural machinery.

Therefore, the leaders of our station decided to hire seven experts in the field of agricultural machinery to form an expert jury. Everyone will vote. In the end, which product gets the most votes, we will report that product! "

"Expert jury? Voting?" Song Chengde took a deep breath: "So the next step is to go to the seven public relations experts!"

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