Alar: 3,000 acres of long-staple cotton have all been mechanized picking
Recently, 3,000 acres of long-staple cotton planted in Alar City, the First Division of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, has entered the picking period. What is different from previous years is that this year all the long-staple cotton has been mechanized picking, which also marks that Local long-staple cotton has been successfully harvested by machine.
In the experimental field of Xinjiang 359 Agricultural Development Co., Ltd., a modified cotton picking machine gallops across the field, collecting all the cotton in the warehouse, with a net picking rate of more than 93%. In order to achieve long-staple cotton machine picking, this year the company introduced the new variety Xinhai No. 60 for trial planting. After careful management, the variety grew well. The maximum yield per mu was measured to be more than 500 kilograms, and the average yield was more than 420 kilograms. Machine harvesting standards.
Qin Min, deputy general manager of Xinjiang 359 Agricultural Development Co., Ltd., said: “The non-machine-picked long-staple cotton we originally planted was the long-staple cotton that was conventionally grown in the past. Its fruit nodes are lower. Generally, budding begins at about nine centimeters. If you use a cotton picker to harvest, the bottom one or two fruits cannot be harvested, resulting in waste. The long-staple cotton we planted this year can be seen. Its bottom section is more than 16 centimeters above the ground, and can reach about 18 centimeters, which basically meets our machine requirements.”
It is understood that the new long-staple cotton variety Xinhai No. 60 introduced this year has a growth period of about 130 days, a single boll weighs about 3.2 grams, and the flocculation is smooth and concentrated. The average height of the first fruit branches from the ground reaches 18 cm, which is in line with the lowest level of machine harvesting. Require standards.
Alar City of the First Division was once the country’s high-quality long-staple cotton production base and enjoyed the reputation of “the hometown of long-staple cotton.” Problems such as large waste and high manual picking costs have greatly reduced cotton farmers’ enthusiasm for planting. Now, after long-staple cotton has been harvested by machine, relevant basic data can be collected in key links, and experience can be accumulated to provide technical support for the large-scale promotion of machine-harvested long-staple cotton in the future.
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