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As the "national team" of China's grain production, Beidahuang Group bears the responsibility of ensuring national food security. Autumn harvest is a key link in agricultural production, involving agricultural machinery dispatching, expert guidance and subsequent land preparation work.
China News Service, Harbin, October 23 (Wang Nina, Donna, Zhu Lei, Yue Wen) my country's grain "national team" Beidahuang Group completed the harvest of all grain crops on October 23 (except for low-lying areas prone to waterlogging). This is what the reporter learned from the Beidahuang Group that day.
In order to shoulder its responsibility for food security, Beidahuang Group is making every effort to prepare for the autumn harvest. Before the autumn harvest, 481,300 agricultural machinery were updated and overhauled, and 2,065 large flood-resistant machinery were also prepared.
Autumn land preparation site at Jianshan Farm of Beidahuang Group. Photo by Pang Zunming
Beidahuang Group organized 15 expert teams to go directly to 66 farms and 10 districts and counties to guide the autumn harvest step by step.
At the same time as the autumn harvest is being carried out, straw is returned to the fields. At present, Beidahuang Group has completed returning 8.7401 million acres of farmland, turning straw into a "nutritious meal" for black soil.
Jiangchuan Farm stepped up its rice straw packaging operations. Photo by Li Weihua
At present, Beidahuang Group will shift from all-out harvesting to a smooth shift to a combination of harvesting and consolidation, and preparation for farming and energy storage. In the third management area of Yunshan Farm, Mudanjiang Branch of Beidahuang Group, high-horsepower locomotives roared to work in the fields where corn had just been harvested. The plowshares turned over, and the dark soil turned into waves. The farms of the Beidahuang Group pay close attention to weather changes, concentrate their superior mechanical power, and make every effort to speed up autumn plowing, autumn land preparation, and autumn ridge raising. The dry fields strive to raise large ridges in autumn, and the paddy fields actively expand the dry flat area without stirring, and complete the "black winter" of the cultivated land before the freeze, so as to accumulate the most sufficient momentum for a bumper harvest in 2027.
Growers in the first management area of Jiangchuan Farm are drying grain. Photo by Li Weihua
After the autumn harvest, Beidahuang Group overhauled 702 drying towers in advance, with a daily grain drying capacity of 364,000 tons. Beidahuang Group insists on promoting revenue through sales, proactively connects with purchasers, and promotes the sale of high-quality grain at good prices, so that the grain in the hands of growers can be turned into real money as soon as possible, so that they can prepare for next year's spring farming with peace of mind.

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