Xinjiang Yuli: 1.01 million acres of cotton harvest begins

In the golden autumn, everything is in abundance. 1.01 million acres of cotton in Yuli County, Xinjiang are entering the harvesting period one after another. Many large-scale cotton pickers are busy in the fields and have become the “main force” of cotton harvesting, ensuring that the harvested cotton wadding is returned to the warehouse.

In the past few days, in a high-standard cotton field located in Zhongwang Cotton Planting Professional Cooperative in Yuli County, Xingping Town, Yuli County, the sound of machines has been rumbling. Large domestic cotton pickers shuttled back and forth in the cotton field, completing picking, compression, and Packaging and other processes. This year, the cotton planting area in Yuli County has reached 1.01 million acres, of which the machine-picked cotton area has reached 990,000 acres. The harvesting work will start in early October and will last until about mid-November. At present, nearly 300 large and small cotton picking machines are distributed in various cotton areas and are picking in an orderly manner.

Guo Shixue, director of the technical department of Zhongwang Cotton Cultivation Professional Cooperative in Yuli County, said: “This year, our cooperative’s cotton picking work is all done using domestic cotton picking and bundling machines. Like this cotton bale, it only takes 5 to 6 to make a bale. Minutes, the weight is about 850 kilograms, which is equivalent to the picking amount of 10 laborers in one day. Judging from the picking conditions of these two days, the cotton picking purity of this type of machine has reached more than 95%, and the picking rate of film bales is also The machine-picked cotton harvestingquality requirements have been met. Based on this progress, it can harvest 150 to 200 acres of land in one day. According to this harvesting progress, our cooperative has 6.6 With 10,000 acres of land, we have prepared more than 10 cotton picking machines, and it is expected that the picking will be completed by the end of October.”

Since the winter of 2020, with the strong support of the Yuli County Party Committee and the County People’s Government, 80% of the cotton fields of Zhongwang Cotton Planting Professional Cooperative in Yuli County have carried out high-standard farmland construction, and improved the pipe network of efficient water-saving facilities, forest belts, and fields. Agricultural infrastructure such as road maintenance has steadily expanded the size of the cotton base. This year, Zhongwang Cotton Planting Professional Cooperative in Yuli County planted 66,000 acres of cotton. The cooperative uses unified varieties, unified planting, and unified harvesting to achieve cost savings and efficiency increases in cotton.

Guo Shixue, director of the technical department of Zhongwang Cotton Cultivation Professional Cooperative in Yuli County, said: “This year’s cotton production in our cooperative mainly adopts a moderate increase in density technically. The number of harvested plants per mu has increased from more than 13,000 plants last year to 15,000 this year. Plants. At the same time, in sowing, we adopted technologies such as dry sowing and wet sowing, double film covering, and early sowing at appropriate times, which effectively increased the growth cycle of cotton, increased cotton yield, and improved cotton quality. In cotton growth management During this period, we adopted the integration of water and fertilizer and full drone control. The application of these technologies greatly reduced labor intensity and saved planting costs by 100 to 150 yuan per mu of land. Through these two days of mechanical harvesting and weighing After weighing, our cotton yield per mu has reached 500 kilograms, an increase of about 50 kilograms per mu compared with last year.”

Yuli County is one of the important high-quality fine-staple cotton and high-quality cotton production areas in the country. The unique geographical location and climatic conditions make the cotton produced in Yuli County have long fiber, good color and high quality. It has won the title of “National High-quality Commercial Cotton Base” and “Top 100 Cotton Producing Counties in the Country”. In recent years, Yuli County has transferred 450,000 acres of land through the introduction of leading enterprises, and built 306,000 acres of high-standard farmland. The farmland is standardized, large-scale, intensive, mechanized, intelligent, The integration of water and fertilizer has improved the technological content of cotton production and reduced the cost of cotton planting; at the same time, it has enhanced the ability to resist risks and ensured a bumper cotton harvest. Cotton is fully mechanized from sowing to harvesting, with an agricultural mechanization rate of 99%. It was awarded the title of “National Demonstration County for Full-Process Mechanization of Crop Production”.

Wang Xiangjin, director of the Yuli County Agricultural Technology Extension Center, said: “Currently, Yuli County has selected three to five main planting varieties. After the varieties are unified, it will help improve the quality of cotton. We carry out fertilization based on soil testing and formula Upgrading, that is, precise fertilization, in the green prevention and control of pests and diseases, first strengthen the accuracy of pest and disease forecasting, combined with pesticide reduction and efficiency increase. The county’s smart cotton planting area has reached more than 20,000 acres, irrigation, fertilization, pest control All of them have become intelligent, and you can complete these operations by operating on your mobile phone.”

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