Three Reasons Affecting the Development of Sugarcane Mechanization in China and Suggestions for Solution

[ China Agricultural Machinery Industry News ] At present, China's sugarcane planting is concentrated in the southwestern border area, more than 70% of which are in sloping land and hilly areas. The main reasons affecting the mechanization of sugarcane production are as follows:

First, as far as sugarcane itself is concerned, there are many varieties, different cultivation techniques, unevenness of straight lines, and serious lodgings affecting mechanized operations;

Second, the plot is irregular, the area is small, and the road is poor. Even in the construction process of “double high” base (high output and high sugar content), there are still imperfect standards and poor infrastructure construction, such as planting plot size, planting row spacing, ground turning area, machine farm road, etc. Uniform and perfect standards can not meet the mechanized operation, and the layout of some water conservancy facilities that are bowed also affects the operation and walking of the implements;

Third, there are few sugarcane harvesters on the market that are specifically used for hilly slopes and rainy season harvesting, and a small amount of machinery needs further improvement and optimization in performance.

All of these have affected the development of the sugarcane cultivation, planting, management, harvesting and pressing industry chain to a certain extent.

To solve these problems, first, we must continue to carry out land remediation, construction of sugarcane water conservancy facilities, etc., improve related supporting facilities (this part of the base can enjoy central budget investment), and second, breed improvement through breeding methods. The improvement of cultivation measures will reduce the occurrence of lodging; the third is to carry out standardized planting, increase the intensity of agricultural machinery and agronomy, and formulate and improve relevant standards such as planting block size, planting row spacing, machine tillage, and land turning area; Mechanical research and development efforts, after all, mechanization is the premise of large-scale development; sixth is to accelerate the further transformation of the sugar plant pre-treatment process, enhance the crushing capacity of the machine to collect sugar cane, and ensure that the machine collects the harvest of sugar cane; seventh is to further strengthen the agro-industrial fusion The integration of information technology will improve the quality of agricultural machinery operations and make the planting more straight and even. (Original title: Analysis of the reasons for the mechanization of sugar cane in China)