More than 1.9 million acres of cotton in Shaya County have entered the harvesting period

In the golden autumn, cotton in Xinjiang enters the harvesting period. More than 1.9 million acres of cotton in Shaya County, a national high-quality cotton production base, is also welcoming a bumper harvest. The cotton picking machines in the vast “cotton sea” operate efficiently to ensure that the new cotton is returned to the warehouse in a timely manner.

On October 1, in the cotton fields of the Duolikun Cotton Farmers’ Professional Cooperative in Shaya County, the cotton was spun as white as snow, and cotton pickers shuttled back and forth for mechanized harvesting, outlining a beautiful picture of a bumper harvest. The cooperative was established in early 2019. It leveled 5,241 acres of land owned by 469 farmers in the village and planted cotton and wheat on a large scale, helping the villagers increase their income. “Our cooperative has planted 4,300 acres of cotton this year. The measured yield per acre is about 450 kilograms. The cooperative has a cotton picking machine and can pick all the cotton in one month.” Aizezi Ahemati, deputy director of the cooperative, said happily.

After villager Aimaier Yimiti transferred 50 acres of land at home to the cooperative, he was keenly aware of the income-increasing opportunities brought by the accelerated mechanization of the cotton industry. He learned about high-horsepower tractors, cotton pickers, and unmanned aerial vehicles. With the skills to drive agricultural machinery such as plant protection machines, he became a skilled “mechanical expert” and applied for a job in a cooperative to be responsible for driving and maintaining agricultural machinery. His income increased by 60% compared with three years ago. “My land is transferred to the cooperative and the annual dividend is more than 60,000 yuan. The cotton mining machine can earn more than 40,000 yuan a month. Working in the cooperative makes 3,000 yuan a month. This year our family has an income of 150,000 yuan. Now we are living a good life.” Aimaier ·Yimiti’s joy is beyond words.

Shaya County is located on the northern edge of the Taklimakan Desert and has a continental warm temperate arid climate. It is endowed with unique water, soil, light and heat resources, which is suitable for cotton growth. The cotton planting area is stable at about 1.9 million acres all year round. It is known as the “Hometown of Cotton Cotton in Tarim, China” “The good name. Since 2017, Shaya County has actively promoted efficient and water-saving agriculture. Through large-scale leveling and orderly transfer of land, it has developed moderate-scale operations based on “cooperatives + farmers”, breaking the traditional scattered planting model of small farmers in the past and laying the foundation for the development of Full mechanization of operations and the development of modern agriculture have created conditions, spawning more than 250 professional farmer cooperatives, and greatly improving cotton production efficiency. Aizezi Ahemati said: “Now it is all high-standard farmland, management is very convenient, and mechanization is very fast. Our cooperative’s dividend this year is expected to be about 1,300 yuan per acre, which is 300 yuan higher than last year.”

Shaya County also continues to deepen the structural reform of the cotton supply side, relying on the resource advantages of cotton production areas, constantly optimizing the cotton variety structure, accelerating the construction of high-standard farmland, increasing the promotion and application of advanced agricultural technologies, and achieving a remarkable level of large-scale, standardization and modernization of cotton production. improve.

Musha Kasimu, director of the Shaya County Agricultural Technology Extension Center, said: “In recent years, with Beidou satellite navigation precision sowing, under-film drip irrigation water and fertilizer integration technology, green prevention and control technology, and full-process mechanized management, It has been comprehensively promoted in Shaya County, greatly improving the level of agricultural modernization. The county’s cotton machine harvesting rate will reach more than 90%. This year’s climate conditions are good, and management and technical measures are in place, cotton output andQuality is expected to hit a record high, and lint production is expected to exceed 260,000 tons.”

It is understood that in 2022, more than 1.9 million acres of cotton in Shaya County will be picked by machines. More than 300 cotton picking machines will be put into harvesting work, and the harvest is expected to end in mid-November.

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