When is sorghum harvested? How much does it cost to buy sorghum now?

When will sorghum be harvested? What's the price of the purchase? Let's take a look.

When the stems and leaves turn yellow and the seeds are hard and milky white 35-40 days after heading, sorghum should be harvested immediately with a sickle. After drying, sorghum ears can be rolled and threshed by wheels or threshed by sorghum threshing machine.

Spread the harvested sorghum on the road, let the vehicles run over the ears of sorghum, so as to press out the grain of sorghum. This is the way that farmers in Kinmen have been harvesting for many years, so when they drive in Kinmen, they inadvertently join the ranks of sorghum rolling grain and contribute "a few horsepower" to the countryside.

With the introduction of rural mechanization, cultivators, harvesters, threshers, shellers and other equipment have become very popular in rural areas, and the scene of "road paving sorghum waiting for car pressure" has been declining day by day, and only farmers who plant in small areas, or farmers who have poor harvests due to wind and rain imbalance, will also use this method in order to save costs, but it also forms a special style of agricultural activities in Kinmen.

Every year, Jinmen produces 500 hectares of spring sorghum and 1800 hectares of autumn sorghum, with a total output of 3900 metric tons. The "Jinmen County government" plans to purchase sorghum at a guaranteed price of about 115 million yuan a year, and the insured purchase price is 38 yuan per kilogram. More than 4,000 farmers have benefited from the price insurance policy, but about 400 to 500 farmers have actually participated in the planting.

Although Jinmen has implemented price-insured acquisitions, the desolation of agricultural land is still serious. In 1980, more than 6,000 hectares of sorghum were planted, but now there are only 2300 hectares left, and only 3,000 to 4,000 hectares of arable land are left.