* * Cotton acreage accounts for 80% of the country, come and see how they achieve high yield?

** Total cotton output has been ranked first in the country for more than 20 consecutive years. The reporter learned from the ** Academy of Agricultural Sciences that the ** cotton planting area reached more than 37 million mu in 2018, accounting for 80% of the national cotton planting area. The average yield per mu of cotton in northern Xinjiang is about 400 kg, and the average yield per mu of cotton in southern Xinjiang is about 500 kg. The proportion of cotton picked by machine in northern Xinjiang accounts for more than 80%.

830,000 mu cotton mechanical harvest in Manas County reaches 96%

Once, every cotton harvest season, in the northern Xinjiang Changji, Shihezi, Kuitun area, cotton fields are full of ten flower army. In recent years, in northern Xinjiang machine-picked cotton planting has been rapidly promoted, the reporter learned from Manas County Agricultural Bureau, this year the county planted 830,000 mu of high-quality cotton, mechanized harvest will reach 96%.

In the cotton field of Cheng Zhengjiang, a cotton farmer in Sanchakou Village, North Wucha Town, Manas County, 6 cotton pickers shuttle back and forth to intensify their operations. Cheng Zhengjiang planted more than 300 mu of cotton in 2018. Due to scientific planting, the cotton growth in 2018 is better than that in previous years."The yield per mu is estimated to be about 400 kg, and the good one can reach 500 kg. In 2018, we have implemented mechanical mining here. Compared with manual picking, mechanical mining will save about 650 yuan per mu of land."

It is reported that North Wucha Town of Manas County has all realized machine-picked cotton. In order to popularize machine-picked cotton in a large area, Manas County has initiated structural reform on agricultural supply side in recent years, adjusted planting varieties, reduced the original more than 20 varieties to planting 3 varieties, planted high-efficiency and high-quality machine-picked cotton, guided cotton growers to establish cooperatives, unified procurement, unified harvest and saved planting costs.

Li Xueming, a cotton grower in North Wucha Town, Manas County, has been planting cotton for 17 years."In the past, in order to recruit ten flower workers during the cotton picking season, we squatted all day at the railway station and long-distance bus station, holding signs everywhere to ask."

In the past, it was not good for flower pickers to recruit annual price increases. Li Xueming still remembers that the price of cotton picked up in 2001 was only 5 jiao a kilogram, and the highest price rose to 2.2 yuan a kilogram in 2015."It's really too much to go on like this. In 2016, I changed all kinds of machine cotton picking. Now cotton planting is almost mechanized, and our family has planted 200 mu of cotton, which is easy to manage." Li Xueming said.

It is reported, Manas County in recent years has been guiding cotton farmers to take intensive planting road, scientific planting scientific management,"cotton precision seeding technology, chemical topping technology and mechanical harvesting technology integrated into cotton production to realize the whole mechanization." Bao Yuqin, chief agricultural consultant in Manas County, said.

The planting area of machine-picked cotton in northern Xinjiang has accounted for more than 80%

The reporter learned from the ** Academy of Agricultural Sciences that in recent years, machine-picked cotton has been rapidly promoted in northern Xinjiang, and the machine-picked cotton planting area has accounted for more than 80%, and individual counties and cities have exceeded 90%.

Shawan County planted 1.8 million mu of cotton in 2018. At present, cotton matures for six times and mechanical harvesting begins. In a cotton field in Songshenggong Village, Jingou Town, Shawan County, a John Deere CP690 self-propelled cotton picker from Shawan County Agricultural Machinery Cooperative shuttles back and forth in the cotton field. According to Mu Jianzhong, director of Hongji Agricultural Machinery Cooperative in Shawan County, from the beginning of cotton picking on September 22, four John Deere CP690 self-propelled cotton pickers were used to serve around Shawan County, with a daily operation volume of more than 500 mu.

After the cotton picker was driven into the cotton field, the cotton was quickly caught into the "belly" of the machine, and then compressed in the "belly", and a large bundle of cylindrical cotton bales was spat out from the tail of the machine. Compared with the traditional net box cotton picker, the packing cotton picker realizes the mechanization of cotton harvesting and packing, which can effectively avoid impurity pollution in the process of cotton transit and greatly improve cotton quality.

The reporter learned from ** Tianshan Rural Credit Agricultural Machinery Co., Ltd. that ** began selling packaged cotton pickers in 2012. The price of the first generation 7760 was 4.6 million yuan, and the second generation CP690 sold 5.3 million yuan in 2015. "At present, there are seventy or eighty cotton pickers in southern Xinjiang, mainly purchased by Shaya County, Yuli County and the First Division 2 of the Corps. There are nearly 200 cotton pickers in northern Xinjiang, mainly distributed in the 125th Regiment, 121st Regiment, 127th Regiment, Wusu, Kuitun and Shihezi. One cotton picker can harvest 680 mu of cotton continuously one day and one night, and the conservative harvest is 500 mu. One machine can work for one day equivalent to 2000 laborers."* Tianshan Rural Credit Agricultural Machinery Co., Ltd. Sales Manager Fu Quanwei said.

Compared with planting benefits, the income of cotton picking by planting machine is higher

It is reported that ** the earliest promotion of machine picking cotton is in the Corps, as early as the late 1990s, the first division of the Corps has appeared machine picking cotton, and then machine picking cotton in the eighth division of the Corps began to promote. But at that time, the price of manual cotton picking was cheap, and the promotion of machine cotton picking was not fast.

By 2012, machine-picked cotton was rapidly popularized in northern Xinjiang. "Cotton 1.5 yuan/kg is a balance point of interests, artificial cotton pick up more than this price has not much advantage, now the price of ten cotton rose to 2.5 yuan/kg, planting machine cotton harvest income has occupied an absolute advantage." Fu Quanwei said.

According to estimates, in northern Xinjiang mechanical cotton picking sold after each kilogram of income to be higher than manual cotton picking about 9 cents, an mu of land to earn about 360 yuan; and in southern Xinjiang an mu of land to earn about 450 yuan.

It is reported that in 2018 ** cotton picking began in early September, southern Xinjiang in mid-September large-scale cotton picking, northern Xinjiang in late September large-scale cotton picking. ** Cotton picking time can last about 50 days, and the latest harvest in northern Xinjiang will be in late October. This is the busiest time for cotton harvesting.

Time: 2019-03-14 Click: