Hebei realizes large-scale full-scale mechanization of cotton production
Recently, in Dawuzhuang Village, Dongtianzhuang Township, Fengnan District, Tangshan City, located in the coastal plain of eastern Hebei Province, thousands of acres of cotton sea stretched as far as the eye could see. White cotton hung on the branches, and two large cotton pickers roared through it. , wherever the cotton picking machine passes, only the bare stems of the plants covered with cotton wool are left, like white clouds drifting away in the wind. This is the scene at the new machine-picked cotton variety display and Jidong cotton mechanical harvesting on-site observation meeting jointly organized by the Cotton Research Institute of the Hebei Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences and the Fengnan District People’s Government.
“We have finally realized large-area cotton harvesting by machine. Mechanization is better! It saves labor, time, cost, efficiency, and improves cotton quality.” At the observation meeting, Fengnan District Xinghe Cotton Farmers Professional Cooperative According to the person in charge, Zheng Hongtao, a large cotton picker can harvest 10 acres of cotton in one hour. The cotton fields that used to require 30 people to pick in one day can now be picked in one hour. The full mechanization of cotton production has truly “liberated” farmers. .
As a demonstration area for full mechanization of cotton in the province, Fengnan is the main cotton producing area in eastern Hebei Province, with an existing cotton planting area of 120,000 acres. In recent years, due to factors such as increased labor costs and low mechanization of cotton planting, the efficiency and scale of cotton planting have been affected to a certain extent. Promoting large-scale full-process mechanized production, reducing labor input, lowering production costs, and improving cotton farmers’ benefits have become the development direction of the cotton industry in Fengnan District.
In the past two years, the scientific research team of the Cotton Research Institute of the Provincial Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences has adhered to a problem-oriented approach and actively cooperated with the joint construction work of the agricultural science and technology modernization pioneer county in Fengnan District, introducing new machine-picked cotton varieties and integrated full-process mechanized production technology to Demonstration and promotion were carried out in the main cotton producing area of Fengnan. Taking advantage of the geographical advantages of Fengnan Cotton District’s large land area and standardized field zoning, and relying on new business entities such as the Xinghe Cotton Planting Cooperative, we will implement a new model of modern cotton planting. By introducing new machine-picked cotton varieties, implementing precision sowing, height reduction and density, full-process control, green prevention and control, mechanical harvesting and a series of new technologies, they began to demonstrate and promote large-scale full-process mechanized operations in Fengnan last year. Data show that the average yield per mu of seed cotton in the 10,000-mu demonstration field in Dawuzhuang Village is 316.5 kilograms, and the yield per mu of high-yield strip fields reaches 378.5 kilograms. From the production scale, variety performance, planting mode, cultivation technology to the degree of mechanized operation, it is close to the production of Xinjiang cotton. level.
Geng Junyi, a cotton expert from Hebei Province, said that in recent years, Hebei has mostly implemented full-process mechanized production demonstrations in small areas (tens of acres or hundreds of acres) in traditional cotton areas. There are not many large-scale full-process mechanized production demonstrations of cotton. Nearly 10,000 acres of cotton in Fengnan Chengfang have been fully mechanized production, which is of great significance in saving costs, increasing efficiency, and increasing the income of cotton farmers, especially in reducing labor input, solving the labor shortage problem in cotton production, stabilizing cotton planting area, and improving cotton quality. .
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