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In recent days, there are two important pieces of information about the strip tillage machine in the domestic and foreign agricultural machinery industry. One is that the global agricultural machinery giant John Deere has returned to the field of strip tillage machine manufacturing; Second, more than ten kinds of strip tillage machine products in Jilin Province entered the 2022 agricultural machinery purchase subsidy catalog, which triggered and deserved a new observation and understanding of the strip tillage machine and the strip tillage machine market. For some related enterprises, new opportunities may be in front of them.
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Observing the Past and Present Lives of the Stripe Tiller
Strip cultivator is the abbreviation of strip cultivator, which is adapted to the promotion and application of conservation tillage, less tillage and land preparation. It has only appeared and been applied for a few years in China, but it shows a strong development trend.
In the new edition of the Classification of Agricultural Machinery implemented nationwide in 2021, for the first time, the new category products of tillage and land preparation machinery were clearly marked with "strip tillage and land preparation machines" in the title of subsoiling and land preparation combined machines. In just a few years, the strip cultivator has been formally named and classified, which highlights the importance and production demand of the strip cultivator.
As an old agricultural machinery technology promoter, the author has been paying attention to and thinking about the development of strip tillage machine in recent years on the basis of a comprehensive survey of conservation tillage in the United States. In 2018, the author published the first article in China summarizing strip tillage technology and machine in agricultural machinery journals, comprehensively introducing the conservation tillage strip tillage technology and machine in the United States; Then, dozens of articles related to the strip tillage machine were written and published on the agricultural machinery 360 website and other media, which is a call for the development of Chinese strip tillage technology and machine.
The strip tillage machine was first invented and developed by American farmers in the 1990s. It has been successfully applied to production practice, and has solved and alleviated some problems existing in mechanical direct no tillage sowing; Subsequently, some American agricultural machinery enterprises and universities and colleges actively followed up. Strip tillage machinery has been rapidly developed. The application area of conservation tillage strip tillage technology mode in corn, soybean and other aspects has been expanding, which not only drives the expansion of conservation tillage, but also promotes the improvement of grain and soybean yield.
The emergence of strip tillage machine not only makes conservation tillage continue to play an important role in soil protection, but also makes conservation tillage become an effective technical measure to increase production. So far, the highest record of 2576 kg per mu of corn in the world is created by using conservation tillage strip tillage technology.
It can be said that the invention of the strip tillage machine contributed greatly to the development of conservation tillage and showed the great power of agricultural machinery and equipment that cannot be underestimated.
Therefore, the American Association of Agricultural Engineers defined strip tillage as a new form of conservation tillage decades ago; The Soil Protection Bureau of the United States Department of Agriculture also takes strip tillage as an independent sub item in the statistics of the development area of conservation tillage.
In recent decades, strip tillage has become the main mode of conservation tillage in the national corn high-yield competition organized by the American Corn Planting Association.
In Canada, Australia and other countries, especially the United States, the strip cultivators have formed a product system with a wide range of varieties, numerous rows and diverse functions. They play an important role in the land preparation machinery. Although there are many manufacturers and sellers, they mainly focus on several brands. As mentioned earlier, even John Deere, a multinational company, has incorporated the strip cultivators into the product system, and more and more farms use the strip cultivators.
The emergence and use of strip tillage machine in China is a matter of recent years. In 2016, China Agricultural University and other organizations introduced strip tillage machines and tools from the United States, and conducted experimental demonstration in Lishu County, Jilin Province and other places.
At the beginning of 2019, with the participation, guidance and promotion of Shenyang Institute of Applied Ecology, CAS, Northeast Changchun Institute of Geography, Northeast Black Land Protection and Utilization Technology Innovation Alliance and other units, many provincial and municipal agricultural machinery research institutions, agricultural machinery enterprises and many front-line agricultural machinery use soil experts have joined the ranks of the development and promotion of the strip cultivator. The strip cultivator with the name of one of the farmers' inventors as its brand is hot in the market, The R&D, manufacturing and promotion of the strip cultivator in China are on the fast track.
In 2020, Jilin Province took the lead in formulating the special appraisal outline for agricultural machinery of the first strip cultivator in the country, the strip (strip) cultivator and soil preparation machine. In that year, the first batch of strip cultivators passed the appraisal; In 2022, the strip tillage machine was first included in the agricultural machinery subsidy product catalog, and the subsidy standard was determined. At the same time, the provincial technical standard, Technical Specification for Corn Straw Covered Strip Tillage, was formulated, which provided a strong direction guidance and policy support for the research, development, manufacturing, promotion and application of the provincial strip tillage machine to be the leading level in China.
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Recognize the four main driving forces that stimulate the demand for strip plows
As the old saying goes, "Plan first in the game, then in the strategy, and then out of the game". Anticipate the rise of the future market of strip tillage machine products, and the driving force to stimulate demand mainly comes from four aspects.
Kinetic energy I: It is urgent to promote the application of strip tillage technology to ensure the completion of the "two key tasks".
The first is to ensure the completion of the objectives and tasks of black land conservation tillage. Black land conservation tillage action plan, national strategy, national leader. After six years of implementation, half of the time has passed, and the goal of 9.33 million hectares has been achieved. In the next three years, the task is very heavy, entering the critical period, the climbing period, and the difficult areas. Most of the expanded areas are areas with relatively less accumulated temperature, hills and slopes, some low-lying areas, saline alkali lands, and difficult areas. How to solve the difficulties requires the support of the strip tillage technology mode and the technical equipment of the strip tillage machine. To put it more bluntly, only by guiding the promotion of the strip tillage technology, using the strip tillage machine to operate, and using the protective tillage in these places can we push, push, and push forward.
Second, ensure the completion of spring planting in 2023. In 2022, the rainfall in Northeast China will be heavy. Rainwater washing and mechanical operation in the autumn of 2022 will aggravate the soil hardening, which will increase the difficulty of land planting in 2023. According to previous experience, proper plowing and land preparation after waterlogging is an important measure to control waterlogging, hardening and weeds. The protective tillage takes strip tillage as the tillage measure, and uses the strip cultivator to sort out the strip and control the disaster, which is conducive to the mechanical no tillage sowing in the next year.
Kinetic energy II: speed up the promotion and application of strip cultivators to solve the "dilemma" and make up for the shortcomings of conservation tillage.
It is difficult for some farmers to accept conservation tillage. In normal years, especially in recent years, when the moisture content in spring is generally good, the early emergence of seedlings is difficult to exceed the conventional planting method. These two problems are two outstanding problems that restrict the promotion and application of conservation tillage. The two problems are interrelated. The only way to solve them is to innovate the technical model. The application of strip tillage technology is an effective technical measure to break through this bottleneck problem, or to solve the "choke point" problem.
In practice, on the one hand, through the strip tillage machine operation, the farmers' prejudice of "difficult to accept" has been changed in the competition game with traditional conventional farming, and some farmers have been overcome. On the other hand, it is difficult to break the rules of seedling emergence, replace traditional conventional farming with conservation tillage, adapt to and meet the needs of a large number of farmers who first value seedlings. In a large number of areas and plots, conservation tillage can only rely on strip tillage to catch up with or even exceed the seedlings of conventional planting methods after sowing in spring, and farmers can be willing to accept conservation tillage.
Through the technology of "tillage in one row with complete seedlings", it can improve the temperature, disperse the moisture, level the seed bed, and create a clean seed bed, so that low-lying land can also use conservation tillage, with good and complete seedling emergence.
Kinetic energy III: Only by vigorously promoting the application of strip tillage can we ensure the realization of the goal of "win-win" black soil conservation and yield increase.
Conservation tillage must not only have the role of soil conservation, fertilizer conservation and cost saving, but also be a technology that can increase production, otherwise it will be difficult to promote and apply it on a larger scale and continuously. Only by adhering to the guidance and pursuit of "win-win", can conservation tillage on black land have vitality and vitality.
In 2022, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs put forward the goal of conservation tillage to achieve "win-win", which is a very directional and guiding work policy. In order to achieve "win-win", the application of conservation tillage can achieve stable corn yield and increase yield at the same time. In many areas, the technology of "full cropping and seedling" is indispensable, which is inseparable from the strip cultivator; Only after strip tillage, can conservation tillage have advantages in seedling emergence and further demonstrate its advantages, which is the key to stable and increased corn yield.
Kinetic energy IV: Only by actively developing the strip tillage machine can we adapt to the "two changes" and implement conservation tillage under full straw coverage and bundled cattle raising.
Straw mulching and full mulching have obvious effects on soil conservation and fertility improvement, which is the development direction. However, in the middle and high yield area of corn planting, the ratio of grain to grass is high, and the yield of straw is large. The strip tillage technology is needed to ensure the sowing quality under the straw coverage, without affecting the emergence of seedlings. The emergence of seedlings is good and complete.
How can conservation tillage adapt to the process of straw packing and leaving the field, repeatedly rolling the plot, causing the seed bed to be compacted and uneven, forming a seed bed condition that is not conducive to direct no tillage sowing, fertilization and seedling emergence, which has a serious impact on the quality of no tillage sowing and seedling emergence. The solution to this problem is inseparable from the strip tillage machine operation. Only by combining the implementation of conservation tillage with these practical problems, can the promotion of conservation tillage be viable and sustainable.
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Grasping the Market Prospect and Product Orientation of Stripe Tiller
Based on the research and judgment on the mainstream technology mode of conservation tillage and the scale of its promotion and application, the strip tillage machine, like the heavy high-performance no tillage planter, will become an indispensable tool in the application of conservation tillage technology, a product with great potential for innovation and expansion of a series of products, a product with strong demand, a hot seller with strong market trend, and a new model occupying an important position in the field of tillage and land preparation machinery, It is expected to replace most conventional rotary tillage ridging machines in some areas such as Northeast China.
Prediction of the market prospect of the strip cultivator. At present, there are more than ten enterprises that develop and produce strip cultivators. The competition in the first two years is relatively gentle. It is estimated that in the next three years, 30 or 40 manufacturers will enter the production of strip cultivators, and the competition will become more intense. By 2025, the implementation area of the National Black Land Conservation Tillage Action Plan will reach 9.33 million hectares, of which it is estimated that 3.73 million hectares, or nearly 40% of the area, including some conventional planting methods, may be converted to strip tillage technology.
According to the average operation area of 100 hectares for a single strip cultivator series product, about 37300 strip cultivators are required. By the end of 2022, the market will have 3000 sets. It is predicted that the annual market demand will be 6000 sets, 10000 sets and 8000 sets respectively from 2023 to 2025. After the completion of the Black Land Conservation Tillage Action Plan in 2025, with the adjustment and implementation of the new black land protection support policy and the upgrading of the strip cultivator, it is expected to maintain the demand of 4000~5000 units every year.
Unlike foreign strip cultivators, which only have non driven traction models, there are two models in China at present. One is non driven traction model, which is similar to foreign strip cultivators in basic structure and principle. There are four models, namely two row, four row, five row and six row models, which are mainly suitable for conservation tillage strip tillage of uniform ridge planting mode of corn. The other is the power driven suspension type, which is a strip cultivator with independent intellectual property rights and Chinese characteristics. It uses tractor power driven blade components and rotary tillage of the seeding belt. Its series of products include single row (two ridges), double row (four ridges), and three row (six ridges), which are mainly suitable for the conservation tillage of wide and narrow row corn planting mode.
From the perspective of the product expansion orientation of the strip cultivator: on the one hand, the non driven model has expanded from the current model with six rows at most and the driven model with three rows of wide and narrow rows to the large model with more lines of work, forming a series of products; On the other hand, on the basis that the existing basic model is only used for the single function of strip tillage (shallow rotation) of the seed bed, it extends to the multi-function products for combined operations such as deep loosening, suppression, ridge table finishing, fertilization and integrated tillage and sowing machines, as well as the application of integrated hydraulic, intelligent and other technologies, which drives the product upgrading of the strip cultivator and further expands the service market of the strip cultivator.
epilogue
A single flower does not make spring, while one hundred flowers in full blossom bring spring to the garden. From the perspective of no tillage planter products and the overall prosperity of the market, the strip tillage machine products have grown from the initial stage to maturity and rose as soon as possible, which requires the guidance and support of the policies of government departments at all levels, especially the agricultural machinery product identification and subsidy policies, the need for manufacturers to develop and create a better series of strip tillage machine products, the need to cultivate and share the "big cake" of the strip tillage machine market, and the support of agricultural technology demonstration and promotion Guided by the technical mode, adhering to the standardized strip tillage operation standard, demonstrating in many places, implementing the differential subsidy policy for conservation tillage, making systematic efforts, precise implementation, and fuelling efforts, we will certainly accelerate the development of the series of products of the strip cultivator, lead and promote the overall prosperity of the strip cultivator market, and benefit from all aspects.
