This group of young people formed an agricultural cooperative and had a ＂bumper harvest＂ golden week.

　　On October 5th, while others were still enjoying the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holiday, a group of young people in Chongzhou, Chengdu were not idle. They shuttled between rice fields, were busy among grain piles, and used drones to measure the land that was about to be sown … … Not only that, they also brought their planting experience to Dazhou to help local farmers increase production and income.

　　A guy with 8 years of drone driving experience.

　　Nowadays, farmland is measured by flight trajectory.

　　At 8 o’clock on the morning of October 5th, Zhou Jiaxi checked his UAV equipment and went to a farmland in Chongzhou to start his day’s work. He is a member of Xinxin Agricultural Machinery Cooperative in Wan Mao, chongzhou city (hereinafter referred to as the cooperative), and his daily work is dealing with various UAVs. At the age of 24, he has about 8 years of flying experience. "I was curious at first, and then I gradually developed into my own career." Zhou Jiaxi told reporters.

　　On this day, Zhou Jiaxi’s job was to measure the area of a farmland, and he completed the measurement task of 800 mu of land in just one morning without using measuring tools such as tape measure. "Operate the drone and fly around the edge of the plot, and then the system will calculate the land area according to the flight trajectory of the drone." Zhou Jiaxi told reporters that the reason for measuring the area is that wheat planting is about to begin, and it is necessary to measure the area of land newly joined in the cooperative to facilitate the application of base fertilizer later.

　　According to Zhou Jiaxi, the area measurement on that day was only a small part of his daily work. He participated in the traditional process of planting crops, including sowing, transplanting, spraying, harvesting and then drying and warehousing, but most of the work could be done by drones. "When it comes to busy farming season, such as sowing seeds and spraying drugs, we basically set off at 6 o’clock in the morning every day, and then we have been working in the field until 7 or 8 o’clock in the evening. Basically, drones are flying in the sky and we are chasing on the ground." Zhou Jiaxi said, "After a busy day, I can fall asleep when I get home with a pillow."

　　On the National Day this year, Zhou Jiaxi came to work in the cooperative for just three years. Three years ago, like many young people, he wanted to leave the countryside and develop in the city. "Born in the countryside and influenced by his parents since childhood, he felt that when he grew up, he could no longer face the loess like his parents, and he wanted to develop in the city. Later, after graduating from technical school, he did work hard in Shenzhen for a while." Zhou Jiaxi said that after seeing the cooperative recruiting drone drivers, he returned to Chengdu to work in the farmland of Chongzhou.

　　"Our cooperative has more tasks all year round. Our drone drivers get paid according to their performance. I can get about 150,000 yuan a year, even a little more than my income in Shenzhen." Zhou Jiaxi told reporters that in addition, working hours in cooperatives are relatively free, and they are close to home. "After work, I can take time to go home to spend time with my family. I think it is also good to develop in rural areas."

　　Talking about his future plans, Zhou Jiaxi said that he wanted to learn more about the farming experience of modern agriculture in the cooperative, and when he accumulated to a certain extent, he would also contract a piece of land to grow crops.

　　The average age of cooperative members is only 26.

　　Serve about 40,000 mu of grain fields

　　In the cooperative, there are also a group of like-minded young people like Zhou Jiaxi. Shu Xingyu, the chairman of the cooperative, told reporters that since its establishment, their cooperative has grown to 21 members, and their average age is only 26 years old.

　　According to reports, cooperatives mainly provide agricultural mechanization services, including machine tillage, machine insertion, drone spraying, machine harvesting and drying. At present, there are more than 80 agricultural machines and tools serving about 40,000 mu of grain fields. Shu Xingyu said: "My university studied communication engineering. After working outside for several years, I learned that there is still a lot of room for development in agriculture in my hometown. So I returned to Chongzhou in 2019, expanded my scale a little bit, and set up a cooperative." After the establishment of the cooperative, it attracted more and more young people like Zhou Jiaxi to return to their hometowns for development. "In May this year, we recruited several newly graduated students, some from Xichang and some from Panzhihua, the youngest of whom just turned 20." Shu Xingyu said, "Some of this group of people in our cooperative are all-rounders, and basically all agricultural machinery can be used, while others specialize in one direction, just to provide better services."

　　While many people around us are enjoying the Mid-Autumn National Day holiday, they are busy harvesting millet and drying rice. "In the recent harvest of rice, we have to dry it day and night. This state lasts for about 60 days every year. During this time, an average of 500 tons of rice is dried every day." Shu Xingyu said.

　　20-hour round-trip technical guidance Chairman: I hope to help more areas realize mechanized production.

　　The business scope of cooperatives is not limited to Chengdu. This Mid-Autumn National Day holiday, Shu Xingyu took two cooperative members to Dazhou City to give technical guidance to Mr. Huang who wanted to develop mechanized agriculture. "We drove from Chongzhou at 6 o’clock in the morning, arrived in Dazhou at 10 o’clock, and then returned to Chongzhou until 7 o’clock in the afternoon. As a result, there was a traffic jam on the road and we arrived home at 2 o’clock in the morning." Shu Xingyu said, "The reason why I have to come back overnight is because the cooperative has a lot of work and cannot be delayed."

　　The situation in Dazhou is different from that in Chengdu, and the operation mode of agricultural mechanization is also slightly different. "At present, Mr. Huang has only contracted more than 1,000 mu of land in the local area. At the beginning of this year, we were invited to give him technical guidance and found that our existing operation mode needs to be slightly adjusted to adapt to it." Shu Xingyu said, "For example, using a rice transplanter to transplant rice seedlings, the local farmland is full of water, and the rice transplanter can easily sink into the soil and can’t move forward, so we will use the drone to sow seeds instead."

　　Although the final effect of drone seeding is not as good as that of rice transplanter, the advantage is that the requirements for farmland are not as high as that of rice transplanter. Shu Xingyu said: "This is also a sowing method that we have just started to experiment. The yield is slightly lower than that of rice transplanters, but the advantage is that it can be operated in a better scale and mechanization." With their help, many abandoned land in the local area has also begun to glow.

　　Talking about the future plans, Shu Xingyu told reporters: "I hope that I can help more individuals and regions realize mechanized production on the basis of constantly improving my agricultural services." Chengdu Business Daily-Red Star Journalist Ye Yan Yan Xiaofeng