Sustainable usage behavior is a key requirement for implementing rice-drying enterprises. This paper examines the conceptual depreciation frameworks of the Ilan rice-drying machine in usage, by the (perceived) resale price data of farm machines adjusted with maintenance costs as well as capacity utilization. After the built cognitive framework, the paper begins by employing the adjusted index to empirically verify the approximated efficiency loss in rice-drying farming process while the Ilan replacement investment has been installed. Specifically, the Box-Cox model is used to explicitly derive the relative productive efficiency by the all vintage in usage. Comparable to the other farming machines with moderate second-hand market, the rice-drying usage is confined in the accelerating deterioration and, therefore, the major usage strategy should reconstruct the early years’ green cognition and take superior technology-drying ecodesign into account.