Don't let the difficulty of drying grain drag on unresolved and become a long-standing problem

Once again it is the season for harvesting rice and corn. Recently, photos of grain being dried on roads have appeared in the media again. Roads that were originally wide have become drying grounds, creating a relatively large traffic safety hazard.

In recent years, as urbanization has accelerated and rural construction has advanced, farmers have moved into apartment buildings and no longer have courtyards. The grain-drying areas formerly in villages have been converted to other uses, and drying grain has gradually become a difficult problem. Many farmers have no choice but to dry grain on roads. This not only very easily causes road traffic accidents and endangers the lives and safety of pedestrians and farmers, but also pollutes the grain itself.

The root cause of farmers drying grain on roads is the lack of effective grain-drying methods. To solve the difficulty farmers face in drying grain, multiple measures can be taken at the same time. For example, parking lots, basketball courts, cultural squares, and other facilities in rural areas can be put to use, with unified planning, to establish grain-drying sites and solve the problem of farmers lacking drying grounds. It is necessary to increase efforts to promote new agricultural machinery and new technologies, promote dryers to farmers, and make the shift from natural sun-drying of grain to mechanical drying. In addition, socialized grain-drying service organizations can be explored and established, making full use of social forces to help farmers solve the difficulty of drying grain. Guidance should also be strengthened for the farmer masses so that they clearly understand the harms of drying grain on roads and try not to thresh and dry grain on roads.