Xinjiang-2 Makes Zhonglian Harvest as a Hero

2023-11-11

In the harvesting machinery and even the big agricultural machinery industry, the one who has the wheat machine (wheeled grain combine harvester) has the chances!

  The demand for agricultural machinery can be roughly divided into short-term opportunity-based demand, and long-term sustainable demand. Wheat harvester is a typical long-term sustainable demand, in the domestic and even global market rice, corn, rapeseed and other bulk crops planting area changing drastically, while the long-term wheat planting area for stable, which provides manufacturers and distributors of  agricultural machinery with a stable predictable and long-term sustainable demand, wheat harvester becomes a mainstream in the agricultural machinery industry, if without wheat harvester business is almost impossible, so wheat harvester is necessary for large agricultural machinery producers, in the domestic market, in recent years, wheat harvester competition is also very fierce, and constantly have the strength and background of more powerful competitors to enter, many signs show that the domestic wheat harvester ushered in a new cycle.

1.Wheat Harvester Opens a New Cycle

  In 1986, Wen Tingyu, a farmer from Wujiabao village in Taigu County, Shanxi Province, bought a harvester, together with five other farmers, took advantage of the time gap between wheat ripening and going north from Yuncheng to Taigu along the way into Shaanxi and Henan province to help local farmers harvest wheat. The wheat harvester played a similar role to that of the "manifesto, propaganda team and seed sower" of the 25,000-miles Long March.

  The domestic wheat harvester industry is cyclical. Since 2000, the domestic wheat combine harvester industry has gone through four distinctive stages of cultivation, growth, maturity, decline and a complete industrial cycle, the wheat harvester industry is greatly influenced by the agricultural machinery subsidy policy in the maturity stage, the subsidy policy only delays or accelerates the industrial cycle, but the cycle itself has not been changed.

  After the coronavirus epidemic in 2020, the domestic wheat combine harvester entered a new industrial cycle, which was to last 5-10 years of decline ended early and the industry quickly entered a new round of cultivation period.

  In terms of industry sales, 2019 was a low point for wheat combine harvesters, with only 18,000 units sold across the industry that year, compared to 55,000 units of full-feed rice machines, three times as many as wheat harvester, over the same period.

  But after 2020, wheat harvester not only started a new cycle, but also regained lost market share from alternatives such as full-feed rice combines and maize combines.

  In terms of quantity, the sales of wheat combine harvesters in 2020, 2021 and 2022 are 18,900 units, 25,600 units and 38,200 units respectively, with an obvious trend of recovery. From the point of view of changes in sales with alternative products, the sales of wheat harvester have grown significantly faster than full-feed rice combine harvesters in the past three years, indicating that the operational efficiency and product quality of wheat harvester have improved significantly. This indicates that the operational efficiency and product quality of wheat harvester have improved significantly compared to rice harvester, and their comparative advantage in the cross-zone market has been significantly enhanced.

  Wheat harvester are entering a new development cycle, with the industry starting to rebound from the trough, but this cycle is decisive for the demand for wheat harvester is another force: the agricultural policy of food as a platform.

  After the epidemic in 2020 and the war between Russia and Ukraine in 2022, food security has been brought to an unprecedented strategic level, and China's rice bowls should be filled with food produced by Chinese people themselves. The "grain-based" agricultural policy is implemented once again, and strong actions are being taken in various places. In the context of the "grain-based" policy, the acreage of the three major staple crops of wheat, corn and rice increased, especially the recovery of wheat and corn cultivation.

  Relatively speaking, the comprehensive profit of wheat is lower than that of corn and rice, and also lower than crops or economic crops such as rape, peanuts, so the area planted with wheat has been shrinking in the last decade, but wheat is the main ration for the inhabitants of the northern and southern-northern border areas of the country.

  After 2020, the agricultural policy of "food as a platform" was restarted, and the wheat sowing area was restored to growing. The demand for wheat seeders, wheat combine harvesters and other special agricultural equipment will increase and wheat harvester will re-enter the growing period.

1. Zhonglian Harvest Carries the Xinjiang-2 Combine Harvester

  In 1992, Xinjiang combine harvester factory and China Agricultural Mechanization Research Institute produced the Xinjiang-2 wheat self-propelled combine harvester prototype after nearly 10 years of trials and research, Xinjiang-2 adopted the plate and tooth cutting flow drum and transverse axial flow drum, the product structure is compact, the cutting width is 2.13 meters, this model is very suitable for the agronomic requirements of wheat harvesting in China and most other areas, once launched, it It is well suited to the agronomic requirements of wheat harvesting.

  Zhengzhou Zhonglian Harvest Machinery Co., Ltd. adheres to the bloodline of the Xinjiang combine harvester factory back then, and after 30 years of hard work, carrying the brand of Xinjiang-2, is still marching forward bravely, not only developing and producing Xinjiang-3, Xinjiang-4, Xinjiang-5 on the basis of Xinjiang-2, until the Xinjiang-9/9L/9B in the last two years, and the Xinjiang-10/11 which will be introduced to the market soon, and other high-end machine, and on the basis of Xinjiang-2 technology platform developed peanut combine harvester, corn combine harvester, silage combine harvester,  and other derivative models, of which Zhonglian harvest brand peanut picking harvester is the domestic product, six consecutive years time market share, is the domestic peanut growers and professional cooperatives.

  Zhengzhou Zhonglian Harvest has experienced the baptism of the market, relying on advanced technology, excellent quality and attentive service to retain market share and harvest more and more good reputation in the market. Harvesting wheat, rice, soybeans, rapeseed, mixed grains, corn seeds and other categories of crops, with better adaptability.

  While inheriting and carrying forward the Xinjiang-2, the company also needs to learn extensively, be inclusive and innovative. At present, Zhengzhou Zhonglian's wheat combine harvester has two technical lines and two series of models, one of which is the tangential flow and cross-axis flow drum threshing and separation technology, and the other is the tangential flow and longitudinal axis flow double drums threshing and separation technology.

  The Xinjiang-9 (4LZ-9B) mainly harvests wheat, and can harvest corn seeds, rice, soybeans, rape, sorghum and other cereal crops by changing parts. The Xinjiang-9 adopts the mature and stable tangential flow and horizontal axial flow drum threshing and separation technology of the Xinjiang-2, which is stable, good value for making money, fast payback, very mature technology, complete accessories, low maintenance costs, and is suitable for local operations or short distance cross-zone operations. The technology is very mature, complete with accessories and low maintenance costs.

  The Xinjiang-9L (4LZ-9L) adopts tangential flow and longitudinal axial flow drum threshing and separating technology is a mature and more efficient harvesting technology. Compared to the Xinjiang-9 (4LZ-9B), it harvests more varieties of crops, is more adaptable and more profitable.

  Market competition is like sailing against the tide, if you don't advance, you will fall back! As the inheritor of the spirit of Xinjiang-2, Zhengzhou Zhonglian Harvest has been carrying the brand of Xinjiang-2 for the past 30 years and will continue to carry the brand of Xinjiang-2 in the new cycle of wheat combine harvesters under the guidance of the strategic policy of strengthening agriculture and enriching the country. Guided by the core values of "pursuing excellence in quality and innovation-driven development", we will continue to increase investment in research and development, continuously introduce more competitive products to the market, promote agricultural modernization, and make due contributions to food security and the revitalization of the agricultural machinery industry, and China's agricultural machinery will be more wonderful because of Zhonglian Harvest.