Agricultural robots, agricultural machinery big data platforms... These intelligent equipment help to end the "Chinese rice bowl" agricultural machinery | equipment | platform

Henan is a major grain province in China, known as the "granary of the Central Plains". In recent years, while ensuring national food security, Henan Province has accelerated the research and promotion of advanced agricultural machinery, vigorously developed digital agriculture, promoted high-quality agricultural development, and assisted in rural revitalization.

As an effective driving force for the development of agriculture in China, high-end intelligent agricultural machinery and equipment have become an important symbol of current agricultural modernization and a hot topic in industrial development. As the manufacturer of the first tractor in New China, China Yituo Group Co., Ltd. has successfully launched a series of intelligent agricultural machinery equipment through long-term technological research and market promotion, and has driven a large number of upstream and downstream enterprises in the industrial chain, forming multiple agricultural machinery equipment supporting industrial clusters in Henan Province.

In the conference room of China Yituo Tractor Research Institute in Luoyang, Henan, engineer Cao Liujian is having a meeting with his team members to discuss how to solve the problems discovered during performance and field testing of the latest product, the hilly and mountainous tractor.

Cao Liujian, a professor level senior engineer at China Yituo Tractor Research Institute, said that the throttle arm is too long, which can easily damage the return spring. Therefore, we have now changed it to a lower throttle and made it a traditional throttle.

The arable land area in hilly and mountainous areas of our country accounts for one-third of the total arable land area, but due to fragmented and uneven fields, the comprehensive mechanization rate of crop cultivation and income in hilly and mountainous areas is less than 50%. In 2021, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs entrusted China Yituo with the important task of "filling gaps".

Cao Liujian, a professor level senior engineer at China Yituo Tractor Research Institute: Our hilly and mountainous tractors are different from foreign hilly and mountainous tractors. Foreign hilly and mountainous tractors require higher climbing ability, while our domestic hilly and mountainous tractors only need to meet the 15 ° operation requirements. But in other aspects, especially flexibility, the overall dimensions of the machine, including some passability, should be slightly stricter than the requirements of foreign countries. Therefore, our hilly and mountainous tractor has been optimized in terms of maneuverability, speed, and passability to meet the needs of actual users.

This hilly and mountainous tractor is expected to be launched on the market by the end of this year.

In recent years, China YTO has continuously made new breakthroughs in high-end intelligent agricultural machinery equipment research and development, key core technologies, and addressing shortcomings in agricultural machinery equipment

Autonomous tractors adopt advanced intelligent control technology, which not only improves crop planting density and yield, reduces energy consumption and usage costs, but also reduces the labor intensity of farmers, reduces the risk of misoperation, and reduces the probability of accidents.

The first domestically produced 220 horsepower tracked tractor, Dongfanghong CH2202, which has been successfully taken offline, will change the situation in which China's high horsepower tracked tractor field relies entirely on imports.

Su Wensheng, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of China First Tractor: In terms of our products, many technologies have broken the monopoly of foreign technologies in China. In terms of cost and price, they have decreased by more than 30%, allowing Chinese farmers to truly benefit from tractor products.

While strengthening itself, China YTO has also driven a large number of upstream and downstream enterprises in the industrial chain to move towards the mid to high end.

The clutch is one of the most important components of high-power tractors and has always relied on imports. In addition to its high price, imported clutches are not very suitable for the large land differences between the north and south of China, and their failure rate is also high. To break through this key core technology, Yituo and supporting enterprises have established a joint technology research and development team.

Li Li, General Manager of Luoyang Yituo Zhongcheng Parts Manufacturing Co., Ltd.: In two years, more than 20 clutch products with independent intellectual property rights have been invented. Not only is the price only half that of imports, but the performance indicators far exceed industry standards.

At present, there are more than 630 long-term cooperative suppliers in China, and more than 280 suppliers in Henan Province, driving the related output value to reach 15 billion yuan. Driven by Chinese companies such as YTO, the agricultural machinery industry in Henan has developed rapidly, forming multiple advanced agricultural machinery and equipment industry chains within the province.

Zhou Xinyu, Director of the Equipment Industry Department of the Department of Industry and Information Technology of Henan Province: As a major province in the manufacturing and application of agricultural machinery and equipment, Henan Province has issued the "Opinions of the General Office of the People's Government of Henan Province on Accelerating the Development of Agricultural Mechanization and High quality Development of Agricultural Machinery and Equipment Industry" and the "Action Plan for Making up Shortcomings in Agricultural Machinery and Equipment in Henan Province", focusing on the shortcomings and weaknesses of agricultural machinery and equipment development. Combining with the existing development foundation, key link needs, and future development trends in Henan Province, advanced agricultural machinery and equipment will be the main direction of attack, encouraging the research and innovation of the agricultural machinery and equipment industry, and providing equipment support for agricultural mechanization.

Filling the gap in agricultural intelligence to help improve the "Chinese rice bowl"

The importance of agricultural mechanization, intelligence, and high-end is self-evident in firmly holding the rice bowl of Chinese people in one's own hands. In 2019, the National Agricultural Machinery Equipment Innovation Center was unveiled in Luoyang, Henan Province. As the first national level manufacturing innovation center in the domestic agricultural machinery industry, the National Agricultural Machinery Equipment Innovation Center has gathered research and development forces from multiple research institutes and universities, continuously carrying out key common technology research and application promotion. It has achieved phased results in multiple fields such as core components of agricultural machinery equipment, core components, agricultural robots, and agricultural machinery big data platforms.

During the agricultural idle season, in Luohe City, Henan Province, agricultural mechanic Xie Guobing used the "Henan Agricultural Machinery Cloud" app installed on his phone to learn agricultural technology online training. This APP is an agricultural machinery information platform jointly developed by the National Agricultural Machinery Equipment Innovation Center and the Henan Provincial Agricultural Machinery and Reclamation Development Center. In addition to providing information release on the bi-directional operation needs of farmers and operators, the platform realizes the convenient information function of quickly finding agricultural machinery for farmers and operators; And provide socialized service functions such as agricultural weather, fuel discounts, and agricultural technology training. As long as the agricultural machinery operator loads sensing devices on the agricultural machinery equipment in advance, accurate measurement of the agricultural machinery operator's operating area can be made, making it convenient for the agricultural machinery operator to calculate operating data and receive agricultural machinery subsidies.

As of now, the platform has conducted project pilot projects in 5 cities in Henan Province, connecting 160000 active agricultural machinery.

Huang Shengcao, Deputy General Manager of the National Agricultural Machinery Equipment Innovation Center: "Henan Agricultural Machinery Cloud" aims to establish an information bridge between the government, agricultural machinery enterprises, farmers, and machine operators, explore solutions for agricultural machinery scheduling and the national "linking operation subsidies with operation volume" solution, make agricultural machinery operation more efficient, provide more timely services, and provide more transparent subsidies.

During this year's "Three Summers" period, the Henan Agricultural Machinery Cloud Platform APP had over 110000 message interactions among operators, and over 200000 government announcements and calls, achieving precise, efficient, and orderly agricultural machinery scheduling.

Meng Xinjian, Secretary of the Party Group of Luohe Agricultural Machinery Technology Center: With the support of this information technology, the operational efficiency of the entire online agricultural machinery has been effectively improved, increasing the income of operators and laying a solid foundation for the government to achieve precise scheduling services in the next step.

In recent years, the National Agricultural Machinery Equipment Innovation Center has also produced multiple innovative products to fill the domestic gap.

The large multifunctional combine harvester that is about to be delivered for use was developed by the Innovation Center after three years of research and development. It has broken through more than ten domestic and foreign technological gaps in areas such as electro-hydraulic control.

The grain loss testing and verification platform fills the gap in the domestic agricultural machinery harvesting grain loss testing machinery industry. The platform has achieved full mechanization of grain loss testing, including material collection, classification, re feeding, cleaning, separation, and weighing. The measurement parameters are automatically transmitted using wireless communication technology to minimize human interference and accurately measure the total loss rate as well as the variation curve of threshing, cleaning, and separation loss rates with feeding amount.

Huang Shengcao, Deputy General Manager of the National Agricultural Machinery Equipment Innovation Center: These data can provide quantitative guidance and data support for the improvement and enhancement of our harvesters, bringing about an improvement in the inspection and testing capabilities and equipment level of our industry, and helping to promote the high-quality development of our agricultural machinery equipment industry.

As of now, the National Agricultural Machinery Equipment Innovation Center has undertaken and participated in 13 national projects and obtained 288 authorized patents.

Zhou Xinyu, Director of the Equipment Industry Division of the Department of Industry and Information Technology of Henan Province: Next, Henan will accelerate the construction of the innovation system of modern agricultural machinery equipment industry, pay attention to the combination of intelligent technology and agricultural machinery, build and promote the "Internet+sharing+agricultural equipment" system, and empower the traditional agricultural machinery industry chain with science and technology.