On August 14, a live demonstration of the forage (mulberry leaf) harvester independently developed and produced by the Nongyou Group was held in Xingxing Village, Qingshuping Town. The harvester is not only light and convenient, but also fast in operation, suitable for hilly areas.

The forage (mulberry leaf) harvester adopts a universal self-propelled crawler chassis, which has excellent field passability, small turning radius, low grounding pressure, etc., its own weight is only 1.8 tons, and it is equipped with a hob structure stalk shredding device and a hydraulic lifting device. Feeding into the horizontal header can harvest green (yellow) corn stalks, rice straw, sorghum stalks, protein mulberry, alfalfa, ramie and other stalk green fodder, especially for harvesting dwarf and juicy green fodder.

Shu Jichao, general manager of Hunan Zhongsang Agricultural Technology Co., Ltd.: This harvester produced by farmers is very suitable for harvesting in the hilly areas of Hunan.

Protein mulberry is a key poverty alleviation industry in our county. At present, the county's planting area is nearly 4,000 mu. Shu Jichao, general manager of Hunan Zhongsang Agricultural Technology Co., Ltd., told reporters that through the development of the previous two years, this year is a high yield period. The pasture (mulberry leaf) harvester produced by farmers has been successfully launched on the market, which not only helps growers catch the harvesting season, but also greatly reduces labor costs.

Shu Jichao, general manager of Hunan Zhongsang Agricultural Technology Co., Ltd.: We visited a lot of places outside and bought a lot of equipment for experiments, because we have a lot of rain here (and the fields are small), and the machine tonnage outside is all Not adapted.

Liu Ruoqiao, Chairman of Nongyou Group: Shuangfeng has bought many mulberry leaf harvesters abroad and at home in recent years, but the effect is not very good. When farmers see this situation, they are committed to the development of mulberry leaf harvesters. We (harvester) now have special functions such as flat-knife harvesting, whole-pole harvesting, crushing, self-unloading, etc., which have solved the bottleneck of mulberry leaf harvesting well, so that we have our own harvester in hilly and mountainous areas.

It is understood that the 2017 National Planting Industry Structure Adjustment Plan proposes that by 2020 the area of forage will grow to 95 million mu, of which the area of silage corn will reach 25 million mu. At present, in the hilly and mountainous areas of the south, the development of pasture planting and breeding industry has also been greatly improved. Compared with the north, the development of forage grass in the south is more diversified and the planting environment is worse. However, the relatively mature domestic self-propelled green fodder harvesters are generally medium and large models, and most of them use wheeled walking. The weight of the whole machine is 6 tons, and the length of the whole machine is 8 meters. It is not suitable for the hilly and mountainous areas in the south. Harvesting operations. In 2016, Nongyou Group formed a research and development team, invested more than 3 million in research and development funds, and developed the second generation model of self-propelled crawler forage (mulberry leaf) harvester in 2018, and applied for a national invention patent for the whole machine. The appearance patent of the machine, and the core feeding system has applied for an invention patent.

Nongyou Group Chairman Liu Ruoqiao: We have two invention patents and one appearance patent for this product. Today's live demonstration has also been recognized by the majority of users.