Rebirth of the Industrial Tycoon - Vol 2 Chapter 682

Chapter 682 An Agricultural Machinery Revolution

Beside a rice experimental field, there are dozens of various agricultural machinery.

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

These more than a 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 enterprises also gathered together, waiting for the start of agricultural machinery appraisal.

This is an agricultural machinery appraisal organized by the Ministry of Agriculture, and the appraisal result will affect whether the agricultural machinery can enter the agricultural machinery promotion list of the Ministry of Agriculture, so this appraisal is very important for all enterprises.

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

“This is a test of rice farm machinery, why did Yue An’an come?” Song Chengde frowned slightly.

The so-called technical industry has a specialization. Fukang Agricultural Machinery is a northern agricultural machinery enterprise. There are almost no paddy fields in the north, and the agricultural machinery enterprises 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 enterprises are better at producing paddy farm machinery.

The people who participated in the paddy field agricultural machinery test this time are basically agricultural machinery enterprises in the south. Yue An’an appeared here, it seemed a bit abrupt.

Someone next to him said: “Although northern companies don’t produce paddy field agricultural machinery very much. But I heard that Fukang Agricultural Machinery has just received a huge order of 5 billion baht from Thailand. Thailand is mainly rice planting, and Fukang Agricultural Machinery is likely to come this time. Test the product that goes to Thailand.”

“You mean that kind of small hand-pushed agricultural machinery? I have seen that kind of gadgets.” Song Chengde looked at the agricultural machinery waiting to be tested in the distance, and then said, “There is no hand-pushed small agricultural machinery in the testing area. .”

Another person said: “Maybe Fukang Agricultural Machinery has developed new products. As far as I know, the research and development level of this 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 harvester!

And at the Thailand Agricultural Expo a few days ago, they came up with a batch of small ones, which were even more popular than the big farm machinery. To say what new products this Fukang agricultural machinery has developed, I am not surprised at all. ”

Someone next to him continued: “The Ministry of Agriculture’s agricultural machinery appraisal is stricter and stricter year by year, and the requirements are constantly improving. In the past two years, it has become more and more difficult to enter the agricultural machinery recommendation list of the Ministry of Agriculture. If it is not filled It is difficult for new products that are blank in China to be shortlisted for this year’s recommended list of agricultural machinery!”

“Who says it’s not! But this is normal. After all, everyone’s technology is improving, and products are naturally getting better and better. Four or five years ago, many technologies were regarded as difficulties by major manufacturers to overcome. 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 wants to raise the requirements. It is said that this year’s list of agricultural machinery promotion by the Ministry of Agriculture has only given one quota for paddy field agricultural machinery. Moreover, this quota is not stable. If the agricultural machinery participating in the appraisal is relatively mediocre, even this quota will not be available. It’s gone.”

“There’s only one spot, so we’re definitely out of play this time.” Someone immediately showed a disappointed expression.

“We’re probably hanging up too.” The other person shook his head helplessly, then looked at Song Chengde and asked, “Song Dong, you Dayang Machinery is a leading company in the production of rice agricultural machinery, even if there is only one quota, you are very good at it. There’s a show, what good things did you bring this time? Tell us about it!”

“It’s nothing, just a rice harvester.” Song Chengde said proudly.

“Rice harvester? Shouldn’t it be an ordinary rice harvester?” The man then asked.

“Just to prevent Kubota’s 688Q rice harvester from coming out.” Song Chengde’s expression was as calm as ever, but his tone was full of pretence.

After hearing about it, everyone showed a surprised expression.

“688Q? Song Dong, did you really imitate 688Q?”

“Song Dong, you guys are great at Ocean Machinery. This 688Q is Kubota’s core product. Just this rice harvester, I don’t know how much money it has made from our country over the years!”

“Song Dong, it seems that the domestic rice harvester market will be dominated by your Ocean Machinery!”

While accepting everyone’s praise and compliments, Song Chengde put on a modest look and said, “We are just imitating, we have not achieved 100% localization, and the engine is still from Yanmar. We will wait for the domestic engine technology in the future. Make some progress, and then seek a completely localized alternative.”

Not long ago, Dayang Machinery had cooperated with Kubota for the order of 5 billion baht. 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 took money from Kubota. to some benefits.

Song Chengde is the helm of such a large enterprise, and he has been in business for many years, so he naturally knows how to make a profit.

In the process of cooperating with Kubota, Dayang Machinery also stole some technology from Kubota, and then added the technology of Dayang Machinery itself, and made a real imitation of Kubota’s 688Q rice harvester.

Kubota’s 688Q rice harvester is a full-feed rice harvester that combines harvesting, threshing, and grain unloading. Due to its excellent performance, this product has always been the main product of Kubota. It is sold well in many countries, and China has also purchased a lot.

Today, Dayang Machinery has successfully imitated this product. Although it still uses an imported engine, just by imitating the brand name of Kubota 688Q, it is enough to stand out among the heroes in today’s agricultural machinery appraisal.

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In the paddy field, a boat-shaped agricultural machine drove past, and the water splashes and mud rolled in the roar of the machine, and then quickly became flat.

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

This is a mechanized boat.

The raw and barren lake fields in southern China have no mud feet. The lake fields in the Huguang area have a maximum bearing pressure of no more than 1.2 kg per square centimeter, and the grounding specific pressure of a small four-wheel tractor must be at least 4 kg per square centimeter. With a load of more than 1.2 kg per square centimeter, wheeled tractors simply cannot be used in such lake fields.

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

It means “boat”, but it actually means adding a layer of hull shell to the outside of the wheeled tractor, so that the tractor can float in the paddy field and will not sink into the soil. Then, the driving wheel is changed to a rotary tiller wheel, which can play the effect of tilling the land while advancing in the water.

The ground pressure of the cultivator is small, the maximum subsidence will not exceed 3 cm, and it will not be restricted by the mud feet of paddy fields during work, nor will the mud feet become deeper.

And in paddy fields, the resistance of the hull to walk must be relatively small, so the efficiency of the cultivator is higher than that of the ordinary wheeled rotary cultivator, and it also saves fuel.

This agricultural machine is very simple to manufacture. It was widely promoted in the early days of reform and opening up. However, because the structure of the mechanized farmer is too simple, anyone can manufacture it. As a result, there are too many manufacturers of the mechanized farmer, and the situation of shoddy manufacturing is serious. The promotion of this product has been hindered.

Moreover, the efficiency and safety of the tillage boat are not as good as that of the regular rotary tiller.

More importantly, it is more difficult for the machine to cross the ridge, which is the most fatal shortcoming of the machine.

As an agricultural machine, it loses flexibility when it is difficult to cross the ridge, which greatly limits the scope of use of this agricultural machine.

The cultivator being tested obviously has a more reasonable layout, which makes the ground pressure more even and the driving resistance in the paddy field is smaller.

The manufacturer who produced this cultivator is also on the side, constantly introducing what has been done about this product, obviously he is very confident in this product.

And the test results are indeed very good. This improved cultivator is much better than the ordinary cultivator in terms of data.

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

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

Everyone turned their heads to look, although the distance was still a little far, but the two tracks were still clearly visible.

“It’s a crawler agricultural machine, but it doesn’t look too big. Is it a small crawler technology?” Everyone is also an expert, and you can judge a general idea from the size of the machine.

Among the agricultural machinery used in paddy field operations, many use crawlers. People are not surprised when they see crawlers, but they usually see medium and large crawler assemblies, and such small crawler assemblies are rare. .

Immediately afterwards, the rotary tiller started to work, stirring the mud in the field, and the sound of “crashing” came to everyone’s ears.

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

“Rotary tiller? Is this a crawler-type tiller?”

“Impossible! The crawler type rotary tiller is just a concept!”

When    mentioned the word “crawler-type rotary tiller”, everyone was inevitably a little surprised.

The rotary plough of the rotary tiller is placed at the back of the machine, so that the land will be tilled after the crawler has passed. If the rotary plough is placed in the front, then the crawler tracks are pressed over just after the land has been plowed, so what effect is there?

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

Until the sound of the mud stirred by the rotary plough sounded, everyone realized that this was a crawler-type rotary cultivator.

When    and other crawler-type rotary cultivators entered some places, everyone could clearly see the rotating plough behind them, and they were finally convinced that this was indeed a crawler-type rotary cultivator!

“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?”

“It uses a small track assembly, which must be a large company with excellent technology.”

“There is a trademark on it. Beverly Agricultural Machinery! It is Beverly Agricultural Machinery!”

“Didn’t Fukang Agricultural Machinery make agricultural tricycles? When did they have crawler technology?”

“Awesome, this Fukang agricultural machine made a silent crawler-type rotary tiller!”

Compared with the previous cultivator, the appearance of the crawler-type rotary cultivator did give everyone a big exclamation mark.

Everyone is in the industry and naturally knows what this small crawler-type self-propelled rotary tiller means.

Traditional wheeled rotary tillers and mechanical tillers have their own shortcomings. One will destroy the mud feet of paddy fields, and the other will be difficult to cross ridges. The crawler rotary tiller just overcomes the shortcomings of the first two and uses the “perfect” two. Words are not enough to describe it.

As soon as this crawler type rotary tiller appears, the wheeled rotary tiller will definitely be completely eliminated from paddy field operations; as for the mechanized tiller, it is estimated that it can only be limited to some lake field operations.

“Crawler-type rotary tiller, with this thing, it is 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.”

“Just one more crawler, maybe it will trigger a revolution in agricultural machinery!”

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

“Don’t rush to a conclusion, don’t forget, the crawler is a good thing, but the price is much more expensive than the wheel. The price of this kind of crawler rotary cultivator is definitely more expensive than the wheeled rotary cultivator. There are too many, and the average farmer may not be able to afford it!” Song Chengde immediately poured cold water.

Someone next to him said, “Dong Song, in our line of business, as long as the agricultural machinery subsidy is sufficient, it doesn’t matter even if the price is higher!

For example, this crawler-type rotary tiller, even if it sells 30,000 to 40,000 units, as long as the agricultural machinery subsidy can make up half of it, it will not worry about sales at all! It might even be sold out. ”

Song Chengde was suddenly speechless.

This person is right, the key to the sale of agricultural machinery products is not the price, but the subsidy.

The subsidy range for agricultural machinery is relatively large. More subsidies can cover half, and less subsidies are not even a penny.

A rotary tiller, factory A sells 20,000 yuan, and factory B sells it for 30,000 yuan, so consumers will definitely buy factory A.

But factory A only subsidizes 2,000 yuan, while factory B subsidizes 15,000 yuan. After a comprehensive calculation, 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 a piece of agricultural machinery can sell well depends on whether the agricultural machinery subsidy is strong.

Song Chengde also knows this, and whether he can enter the agricultural machinery promotion list of the Ministry of Agriculture is directly related to the energy level subsidy.

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In the evening, Song Chengde came to the hotel where the agricultural machinery appraiser stayed with a gift.

This time, the team was led by a deputy head of the Agricultural Machinery Appraisal Station. This person was surnamed Chen. He had been in charge of the appraisal of paddy farm machinery for many times, and he was also an old acquaintance with Song Chengde.

So Song Chengde came to the room of the stationmaster Chen lightly.

Presenting gifts, Song Chengde explained his intention, nothing more than hope that the stationmaster Chen can take more care of the rice harvester of Dayang Machinery.

The stationmaster Chen is also a bright person, he said directly: “Song Dong, we are old acquaintances, and your products have always been of high quality. If you can help, I will definitely help you Dayang Machinery.

Judging from today’s agricultural machinery testing, the results are very clear. Your Dayang Machinery’s imitation of Kubota’s 688Q rice harvester is indeed an excellent product, which fills the gap in this area in China.

If there is no crawler-type self-propelled rotary tiller of Fukang Agricultural Machinery, I will definitely report your products to the Ministry of Agriculture without hesitation. It is estimated that it will be included in the agricultural machinery promotion list of the Ministry of Agriculture.

But the crawler-type self-propelled rotary tiller of Fukang Agricultural Machinery is also a very good product. They also fill the gap in China. It is not an exaggeration to say that it will lead a revolution in agricultural machinery!

There is a saying called both Shengyu and He Shengliang. Both of your products are excellent. It is really difficult for me to choose which one to report. I would not dare to make such a controversial decision alone!

So I just called the leader to report the situation. Just before you came, the leader has issued instructions, this time our agricultural machinery appraisal station is only responsible for the evaluation of agricultural machinery, and does not make the final decision! ”

“Master Chen, you are in charge of agricultural machinery appraisal. You are the most authoritative in this regard. If you don’t make a decision, who will the decision be given to?” Song Chengde asked eagerly.

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

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

“Expert jury? Vote?” Song Chengde took a deep breath: “So the next seven experts are going to PR!”

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