BEIJING: The wheat harvest is in full swing across China, with major production provinces including Henan, Jiangsu, Shaanxi and Shandong using the good weather to organize machines and farmers to harvest the crop day and night.
Over 15.9 million hectares of winter wheat had been harvested by Sunday, accounting for 75 percent of the total growing areas, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs.
Machines are being widely used this year to promote efficient harvesting work and reduce grain losses.
Henan has basically completed its wheat harvest this year, which involves 5.67 million hectares of wheat, thanks to machine harvesting the rain-hit wheat fields and drying the soggy grain to minimize losses, according to the province’s department of agriculture and rural affairs.
The province encountered prolonged periods of rainy weather, which affected the harvest.
It put 4 million pieces of machinery into operation, including 216,000 combine harvesters, to ensure an efficient harvest, according to the department.
After the rain, the wheeled combine harvesters couldn’t operate properly, so the province brought 30,000 crawler harvesters to harvest the crop, while 4,660 dryers operated day and night to dry grain. –The Daily Mail-China Daily news exchange item
