"Black hand Peasant" is in vogue! Repair their own agricultural machinery, small agricultural machinery class set off a trend, take back the leading right of farming

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If the car breaks down and the motorcycle breaks down, where should the farm machine be sent? In general, farmers will send faulty agricultural machinery to agricultural machinery banks, but the maintenance time can easily take off for several days and the cost is at least 1,000 yuan. It seems that the farming work that must be coordinated with seasonal and solar terms will be delayed, and farmers can only be like ants on a hot pot.

However, farmers in Tainan, Kaohsiung or Pingtung are blessed! Since 2009, a total of five community colleges in southern Taiwan have successively offered courses on the maintenance and improvement of small-scale agricultural machinery (hereinafter referred to as "small-scale agricultural machinery classes"), which has entered its 12th year.

From the first Zengwen Community College to Xinhua Community College, which opened for the first time in early September this year, the "small agricultural machinery class" successfully set off a wave of "black-handed farmers." up to now, thousands of farmers have been attracted to sign up for the class.

From now on, farmers' own repair of agricultural machinery is not only a kind of popularity, but also allows farmers to regain the leading right of farming!

Farmers' hands can either farm or repair agricultural machinery (Photography / Li Huiyi) Xinhua Society opens a new class, agricultural machinery as the medium, zero barriers to interaction

On the weekend of September 5th, the sun shone a beam of gold through the leaves of the olive trees. Pulsatilla and tree magpies creaked on the branches, and the fumigating wind blew to the campus of the New Primary School in ⋯⋯. There was no sign of a single pupil, but under the seven big olive trees at the door, nearly 20 older children and old students gathered. Everyone around the white-haired teacher Chen Guanghui, your word, my word, the class atmosphere is very lively.

Classmate A said, "teacher, this machine won't start. What should I do?"

Chen Guanghui replied, "this may be gelatinization. After using the machine, remember to pour out the rest of the oil."

Classmate B said, "teacher, can I borrow this four-itinerary model?"

Chen Guanghui replied, "Yes! You can see for yourself that more than a hundred years ago, the Germans used this model to teach, and it is still the same today. "

This course is the first "small agricultural machinery class" offered by Tainan Xinhua Community College. The number of applicants is 19. Most of the students are part-time farmers or holiday farmers.

The set of two-stroke, four-stroke and diesel engine models on the table are theoretical textbooks for small agricultural machinery classes. (photography / Li Huiyi)

Su Ying-yen, who is in his sixties, grows rice and miscellaneous cereals. On this day, he specially brought the high-pressure sprayer to the scene for everyone to "dissect" and learn. He smiled and said, "my machine has been useless for more than 20 years and has been useless for more than three years. Now it can't start, so I might as well take it to the class and show it to the teacher."

Under the guidance of Chen Guanghui, everyone dismantled the agricultural machinery together and wholeheartedly wanted to repair the agricultural machinery. The interaction was very warm, and it was not like meeting for the first time. Chen Guanghui said, "when we disassemble the parts and reassemble them, the sound of starting sounds like we are about to start successfully. There should be no big problem with the machine. Just take it apart and clean it up again. It should be that the machine has been useless for too long. Of course it can't move!"

Wang Liwen, director of the program at Xinhua Social University, says that the small agricultural machinery class is a course that people are looking forward to, but it is difficult to find teachers. "in general, the agricultural machinery guild can't teach, and I'm afraid that teaching farmers will have a bad business. Over the past few years, we have been looking for suitable teachers, and it was not until Pingbei Society University introduced us to meet Mr. Chen that the class finally opened. "

The small agricultural machinery class at Xinhua Social University has just started, and the blue overalls in the middle are the teacher Chen Guanghui. (photography / Li Huiyi) the faulty agricultural machinery is a ready-made textbook, and the teacher is determined to take the students to see the essence of osteology.

Pingbei Community College in Pingtung County, which currently has 10 classes related to agriculture, is a typical village-based community college. In the spring of 2014, Chen Guanghui was invited by Pingbei Social University to formally start a class and teach apprenticeships, and this year has entered its seventh year. On the evening of September 4th, it was the first time for the fall class of small agricultural machinery class in Pingbei Community College.

Chu Yung-tai, who usually lives in downtown Kaohsiung and grows guavas in Tianliao, says that he is a student who has come to sign up and has been taking classes for two years. He said, "in the past, when I was in the middle of spraying pesticides, the sprayer was broken, so I had to send it to the agricultural machinery shop, and I didn't know how long it would take and how much it would cost, and I wouldn't notify it until it was repaired. Since class, I can bring faulty agricultural machinery to the class to study and repair with teachers and classmates. "

Generally speaking, all machinery other than large agricultural machinery such as tractors and harvesters are classified as small and medium-sized agricultural machinery, and they are also the protagonists in the course teaching of social universities, such as lawn mowers, sprayers, chainsaws, cultivators, water pumps or single-cylinder gasoline and diesel engines.

Dissecting the body, Mr. Chen said it didn't matter to see the bone. (photography / Li Huiyi)

Every time in class, the students spontaneously take their places. People with faulty agricultural machinery will first put the agricultural machinery on the table, and other students will stand next to the agricultural machinery they want to study in depth and follow the teacher to disassemble it. Usually in a class, three or four groups of discussion teaching areas will be formed.

Chen Guanghui, a 78-year-old teacher, is busier than a butterfly collecting honey, shuttling between groups to demonstrate. "if you want to learn to repair agricultural machinery, theory is the basis of practice, and it is useless to understand theory alone, so you must do it in class. Only in this way can farmers be able to repair agricultural machinery and remove obstacles to farming." When he spoke, Chen Guanghui was full of breath.

Pointing to the half-dismantled sprayer, Chu Yung-tai said, "the sprayer I brought today is very difficult to spray. If it is a farm machine to be repaired, the carburetor will be changed directly, but the teacher judged that it should be gasket wear and tear that led to oil leakage." Chen Guanghui added, "it doesn't matter if you take it apart as much as you can, but it doesn't matter if you see the bone. The more thoroughly you tear it down, the more you can study it. The most important thing is to figure out the machine!"