How to Repair Old Agricultural Machinery Failures? A Detailed Guide to Practical Repair Methods
Note: The Satoyama School, which holds rice-planting and harvest experience activities every year, found that its threshing machine, used for many years, had actually broken down. For various reasons, including continuing to hold the experience activities, of course it had to be sent for repair. During the repair process, they unexpectedly discovered the problems traditional farm machinery must face in modern times, and also came to understand the history of the development of the threshing machine. Today, let us hear Big Elephant Brother from Satoyama School tell the story!
There is another interesting example as well. Most people's impression of Hong Kong, China is nothing more than a very advanced, highly urbanized city, but Hong Kong, China used to produce rice too. It was only after the 1960s that it gradually declined, and by the 1980s to 1990s it had almost disappeared. It was not until 2006, under the rice revival project of the Conservancy Association, that locally grown rice appeared in Hong Kong, China again.
However, farm machinery that could be used could no longer be found locally in Hong Kong, China. The Conservancy Association even sent staff to Taiwan, China to look for usable farm machinery to bring back to Hong Kong, China for use.
As the times progress, the machinery used in agriculture also becomes more and more advanced, saving a considerable amount of manpower and time. Through this experience of sending the threshing machine for repair, they also came to understand a small piece of Taiwan, China's agricultural history. Under the problems of an aging and out-migrating rural population, which leave rural areas short of manpower, large farm machinery appears to solve this problem, but under the industrialization of agriculture, the pursuit of fast and economically efficient production methods seems to have lost a little of that human touch.
References:
Ye Shuzhen, 2011, Determinants of Land Rent in Taiwan during the Japanese Colonial Period, Taiwan Bank Quarterly, 62:2, P.215-254.
Li Xinlong, 2014, A craftsman in his 70s makes a threshing machine and donates it to the Zhao'an Hakka Cultural Hall, Electronic Newspaper of the College of Hakka Studies, National Central University, Issue 203.