Chapter 161 - 159 All-Terrain Vehicles
Although Li Yulong brought Chen Xin a fruit and vegetable machine, it’s still not like those large drying machines. Chen Xin had to slowly dry the harvested rice batch by batch.
Fortunately, this machine can dry twenty trays of grain at a time, processing thirty to forty jin each time. A bag of grain can be dried in two rounds, so three bags take six rounds.
He occasionally reached in to toss the grain. Besides swapping the moist bottom layer to the top, Chen Xin also felt the dryness level with his hand.
Only when he confirmed the rice was completely dry, with no trace of moisture left, could he bag and store them.
More than two hundred jin of rice, after drying and husking, would yield about one hundred seventy jin of rice, enough to feed Chen Xin for most of the year.
If he could harvest twice a year, that would guarantee his food supply. In the greenhouse, without worrying about temperature and humidity changes, he could plant under ideal conditions, with ninety to one hundred ten-day cycles for three seasons a year.
Calculated this way, Chen Xin could harvest roughly six hundred, close to seven hundred jin of rice annually, resulting in more than five hundred jin of rice, plus over a hundred jin of husk.
He also harvested several hundred jin of vegetables monthly from his greenhouse, enough food to sustain two to three people.
"As long as the old farmer brings fish, and Xiaolong and Alan get new seeds... it’s finally worry-free eating and drinking." Chen Xin calculated the output of his greenhouse, feeling relieved.
There is an old saying in Flame Country, "With grain in hand, there’s no panic in mind," which is always pertinent.