The small town of Anjihai in northwest China boasts high-quality chillies thanks to long daylight hours and a well-suited environment. For farmers like Guo, these tender, spicy fruit will provide half their annual income. So people waste no time reaping the crops and drying them under the Gobi desert sun.
As modern agriculture has developed in Anjihai, modern harvesters are used in 95 percent of more than 2,600 hectares of chili fields. Local farmers are good at doing the math. A harvester can reap five to eight hectares of chillies (160 to 240 tonnes of chillies) a day. Earlier, 400 people and 12 times the money were needed for the same harvest.
To develop modern agriculture, the local government has been encouraging farmers to team up as cooperatives to plant crops on a larger scale since 2010. As a result, the machines can work on larger fields. Today farmers are using the fourth-generation harvesters, which are 30 percent more efficient. As machines have replaced people, new jobs have emerged in the town. Apart from harvester driver, technicians are one of the most sought-after jobs.
Source: infosurhoy.com
