The enthusiasm of farmers in Shangyu City for purchasing grain dryers has remained high. By the end of this year, farmers in the city have purchased a total of 34 grain dryers worth 3.726 million yuan, which is more than three times the total number of grain dryers purchased by farmers in the previous four years.

"The high working efficiency of the dryer is the main reason why I bought it." " Wang Jianbo, the director of Shangyu Jianyue Agricultural Machinery Professional Cooperative and a model worker of Shangyu City, introduced that a 10-ton grain dryer can dry grains for 13 hours, which is equivalent to the amount of work done by 10 to 11 laborers in 5 to 6 days under the sun.

The central, provincial and municipal finances all provide subsidies for purchasing dryers, which also facilitates large-scale farmers to buy agricultural machinery. Wang Jianbo said that this year his family has newly purchased two 10-ton grain dryers, which have already dried 210 tons of late rice. He introduced that these two dryers have saved 950 to 1,050 laborers, 76,000 to 84,000 yuan in direct costs, and nearly 100 days of time. In addition, Shangyu City Wafeng Agricultural Machinery Professional Cooperative purchased four 10-ton grain dryers this year. It has dried 3,300 tons of late rice throughout the year, generating an income of 720,000 yuan from late rice drying. This year, Shangyu Yonghe Huinong Agricultural Machinery Professional Cooperative purchased a 10-ton grain dryer to dry 1,050 tons of early and late rice. These cooperatives have all become major purchasers of dryers.

By December this year, Shangyu City has 45 grain dryers. The city's daily grain drying capacity is 450 tons, which is equivalent to drying 900 mu of high-yield rice with an average yield of 500 kilograms per mu every day. This year, a total of 6,950 tons of early and late rice were dried throughout the city, generating a total income of over 1.4 million yuan from drying operations.