The market for reducing the radius of cross-district operation is still vast.

Under the promotion of the national agricultural machinery purchase subsidy policy, the increasing shortage of rural labor force and the continuous improvement of agricultural operation scale, in the past two years, the local harvester in the main wheat producing areas in China has become more and more abundant, and the large-scale wheat combine harvester has been increasing continuously. the operation efficiency is accelerated and the time difference becomes smaller, which leads to a shrinking trend in the radius of cross-regional operation market. "during the summer harvest in 2011, 15 townships in the county set up reception points along the road, receiving a total of more than 1000 cross-district operators. In 2014, the township reception points were no longer set up, and the three reception stations in the agricultural machinery department received only more than 100 robots, and it is estimated that this number will not exceed this number this year. " Huang Shuchun, director of agricultural machinery supervision station in Wuhe County, Bengbu City, Anhui Province, said.

So, does the shrinking radius of the cross-regional operation market mean that the cross-regional operation market is also shrinking?

During this year's wheat harvest, the cooperative's large-scale combine harvester harvested only 150000 mu of wheat from the Taishengkang Grain planting Cooperative in Shenxian County, Shandong Province, because of the lack of agricultural machinery. For the remaining 100000 mu, the cooperative subsidized members with fertilizer purchase vouchers of 5 yuan per mu, asking them to contact the mobile harvester operations in the society. This is really puzzling, with 150000 mu of land, the scale of this operation is quite large. According to common sense, the cooperative should make great efforts to buy combine harvesters to ensure the needs of production and reduce production costs.

"the lack of combine harvesters will delay harvesting, but too many harvesters will take up too much money, and the idle agricultural machinery for a long time after wheat harvest will cause a waste of resources." Pang Xuechang, head of agricultural machinery in Taishengkang Grain planting Cooperative, pointed out the problem. Moreover, the combine harvester is damaged too fast: after using a harvester for three years, no one wants 20,000 if you sell it again. And with the increase of the service life of the harvester, the maintenance cost is getting higher and higher, which in turn will become a burden on cooperatives. These have become the key factors restricting cooperatives from further purchasing combine harvesters.

Even if there is the advantage of agricultural scale operation, the comparative income of farmers in farming is still relatively low, and farmers will not blindly invest in combine harvesters. Then, during the summer harvest every year, the non-local combine harvester flowing from south to north will still be the best supplementary force for the local wheat harvest market, which is an important way to maximize the utilization of agricultural machinery resources. "I do most of my homework every year. In March and April, I go to Hainan to harvest rice, then to Henan, Anhui and my hometown to harvest wheat. In August, I went to Hainan to harvest rice, and then went all the way north, harvesting rice along the way as far as Heilongjiang. " Yu Pengfei, a farm mechanic in Fangshan Town, Donghai County, Jiangsu Province, said.

According to statistics, in the "three summers" this year, a total of 560000 combine harvesters were invested in various localities, and 300000 harvesters participated in cross-district harvesting, accounting for 54 percent of the total number of machines used, basically the same as last year. Thus it can be seen that the market for cross-district operations is still broad. With the improvement of the information degree of summer harvest, agricultural machinery cooperatives have become the main force of "three summers" production, the degree of organization of cross-district operations will gradually improve in the future, scattered opportunities to go out blindly are becoming more and more rare, and the cross-district operation market will be more standardized and orderly.