Mechanisation
Tractors, implements, harvesters
Walking and four-wheel tractors, harrows, rice transplanters, combine harvesters and mowers, matched to operating needs with accessible spare parts.
Field reportShandong, China
Ten days in China’s machinery heartland
From tractor plants in Qingzhou to a signing on 23 September, the SunuBiz sourcing mission tested every piece of equipment against one question: will it work, and keep working, on the ground in West Africa?
Day 1
Trip log
14–23
The mission, day by day
Dates and places are taken from the team’s own photographs and documents.
- 14 SepArrival
Into the farm belt
By rail across Shandong’s grain country, then straight to an implements hall stocked with disc harrows, ploughs and rotavators, and a manufacturer’s stockyard.
- 15 SepQingzhou
On the tractor line
Four-wheel-drive tractors from compact models to high-horsepower units, and a walk down the assembly line to see how frames, engines and cabs come together.
- 16 SepQingzhou
Glass, film and water
The Hualiang greenhouse park: glass houses, channel hydroponics, climate fans and an automated fertigation unit that mixes nutrients into irrigation water.
- 17 SepPartner meeting
The hard questions, in two languages
A structured meeting with Yucheng Industry built on a bilingual due-diligence agenda: legal identity, factory verification, quality control, inspection, shipping and warranty.
- 18 SepWeifang area
Housing that ships in a box
Two-storey container housing and capsule units, assessed for staff accommodation on farm sites in a hot, humid climate.
- 19 SepDesign
A greenhouse designed for Senegal
Shandong Hualiang shares its design for one 67 × 39 m multi-span film greenhouse: 2,613 m² of production area, eight spans, nine bays.
- 20 SepProcessing
Adding value at home
Research on heat-pump dryers, pulverisers and packing machines for vegetable powders, and on hydroponic fodder racks for the dry season.
- 23 SepSigning
The partnership is signed
SunuBiz and Yucheng Industry sign a reciprocal exclusive agreement covering mainland China sourcing and eleven West African markets.
Watch
3 films
Footage from the floor
Sourcing priorities
05
A connected farm system, not a shopping list
Each workstream is specified to share equipment where it can, avoid double counting and stay serviceable in heat, dust and humidity.
Infrastructure & energy
Greenhouses, storage, housing
A 2,613 m² film greenhouse, 50 kWh LiFePO4 storage with a hybrid inverter, and 40-foot expandable container housing.
Processing & fodder
Cashews, powders, green feed
A 10 kg/h flavoured-cashew line, a vegetable drying and powder line, and a 100-tray hydroponic fodder system.
Next
Turning discussions into delivery
- Review supplier proposals on technical fit, durability and service support.
- Confirm final configurations, installation scope and site interfaces.
- Agree independent inspection, logistics, training and after-sales support.