As autumn winds arrive and rice paddies fill with fragrance, nearly 50,000 mu of mid-season rice in Jiaocheng District, Ningde City, Fujian Province has entered its harvest season.

In recent years, the local area has promoted small-scale agricultural machinery for field harvesting tailored to local conditions, equipped with intelligent grain drying equipment, continuously improving autumn grain production efficiency and helping farmers reduce costs and increase income.

In the contiguous rice paddies, grains are plump, and gentle breezes make the rice ears sway.

Small harvesters shuttle back and forth across the fields, harvesting rice while automatically completing threshing and bagging.

Jiaocheng District in Ningde City has more mountains than flat land, with over 60% of arable land being terraced fields in mountain valleys.

The plots are scattered and slopes are steep, making it difficult for large machinery to enter, and in the past, work relied mainly on manual labor.

Over the past two years, the local area has introduced small harvesters suitable for mountainous operations, enabling mechanized harvesting of scattered plots.

After harvesting, rice must be promptly dehydrated to reduce losses from mold and sprouting.

To minimize the impact of weather on rice drying, the local area has introduced small grain drying equipment that can precisely adjust drying temperature and humidity based on rice conditions, allowing rice to dehydrate evenly.

A single unit can dry approximately 5 tons of rice per day.

Additionally, to address issues such as scattered grain farmers in mountainous areas and labor shortages during peak farming seasons, Jiaocheng District has innovatively launched a "farming nanny station" mechanism, integrating agricultural machinery and technical services to provide farmers with full-process services from planting to harvest.

During the current harvest season, the local area relies on "farming nanny stations" across 7 townships to coordinate and dispatch over 40 harvesters of various types, conducting operations in different areas according to local harvesting progress.

After grain is harvested, transfer and drying services are connected, providing farmers with one-stop mechanized management to ensure grain is stored in a timely manner.

The harvesting of 49,000 mu of mid-season rice in Jiaocheng District is expected to continue until late October.

In Menghai, Yunnan, thumb corn has entered its harvest season.

The local area promotes standardized planting and processing, with fresh ears going from field picking to processing and packaging in under 4 hours, continuously increasing product added value and effectively driving farmer income growth.

Thumb corn is about 10 to 15 centimeters long, small in appearance, with a sweet and glutinous taste, yielding two seasons per year, with harvest seasons in July and September each year.

The thumb corn planting area in Menghai County reaches over 15,000 mu.

After picking, the corn is quickly transported to processing plants, where it undergoes sorting, cleaning, sterilization, steaming, and vacuum packaging to ensure completion within 4 hours, preserving the best taste of thumb corn for sale to various destinations.

In Cangxi, Sichuan, organic red-fleshed kiwifruit is being marketed in a staggered manner.

During this period, some red-fleshed kiwifruit in Cangxi County, Guangyuan, Sichuan has entered concentrated harvest.

The local area is picking according to fruit ripeness and selling fresh fruit to various destinations through origin purchases, e-commerce, and other channels.

At a red-fleshed kiwifruit planting base in Dongxi Town, Cangxi County, fruit hangs heavily on branches, and farmers are busy picking and loading baskets.

Currently, many orchards in the area have gradually begun harvesting.

In addition to timing harvests based on ripeness, strengthening daily orchard management runs through all stages of fruit growth.

After fresh fruit is picked, besides purchasers coming to buy on-site, the base also sells through e-commerce, livestreaming, and other methods, sending red-fleshed kiwifruit to markets everywhere.

This year, the red-fleshed kiwifruit planting area in Cangxi County, Sichuan reaches 395,000 mu.

Currently, kiwifruit harvesting is more than halfway complete, and picking is expected to continue until mid-October.

In Turpan, Xinjiang, over 110,000 mu of autumn melons have matured and hit the market.

Currently, over 110,000 mu of autumn melons in Turpan City, Xinjiang have matured and are being sold, with the local area precisely connecting with merchants from various regions, continuously expanding online and offline sales channels, and ensuring farmer income growth.

In the vast melon fields of Tuyugou Township, Shanshan County, Turpan City, farmers are busy picking, sorting, packaging, and loading, with trucks full of melons departing from the fields headed to destinations across the country.

To ensure farmer income growth and smooth production-sales links, the local area proactively connects with merchants nationwide, builds sales platforms, and organizes agricultural technicians to go down to fields to strictly control melon quality.

This year, the melon planting area in Turpan City reaches over 110,000 mu, mainly including varieties such as Xizhou Mi No. 17, Xizhou Mi No. 25, and Golden Years, with harvesting continuing until late October.