How Xinjiang cotton writes a new legend
The soft cotton has no shortage of rich stories in the desert oasis of Xinjiang. From the cottonseed and cotton fabrics unearthed from the ancientSilk Road tomb sites to today’s cotton production ranking first in the country year after year, the history of cotton cultivation spans more than 2,000 years and runs through different periods of Xinjiang’s economic and social development. .
In 2022, Xinjiang’s cotton output will reach 5.391 million tons, an increase of 5.1% over 2021, accounting for more than 90% of the country and about 20% of the world’s cotton production; the scale of cotton spinning spindles will reach 22.15 million, with an increase of 4.72 million ingot. Xinjiang is China’s largest and the world’s most important cotton-producing area, and the pace of building the entire cotton industry chain is also accelerating.
How to enhance the soft power in the development of the cotton industry and make soft power become hard support? In recent years, relevant departments and cotton planting areas in Xinjiang have been working hard on quality cotton and making a fuss about extending and strengthening the chain of the cotton industry. In 2022, the central government will support our district in creating advantageous and characteristic industrial clusters with a subsidy fund of 350 million yuan, including 50 million yuan in reward and subsidy funds for the construction of Xinjiang cotton advantageous and characteristic industrial clusters, with key Implement 19 sub-projects of five major projects including digital agriculture and scientific and technological innovation, construction of standardized production bases, upgrading of cotton processing industry, production and operation system improvement project, and green development project.
With the full implementation of a series of policies to strengthen and benefit agriculture, the introduction of various preferential policies for attracting investment, and the advancement of various projects in the construction of industrial clusters, many “stuck” problems in the development of Xinjiang’s “high-quality cotton” are coming to light. have been alleviated, and the blockages, difficulties and breakpoints in the industrial chain are being cleared. The “soft power” of the cotton industry has become more prominent, and the “hard support” has become stronger. The new legend of Xinjiang cotton continues in the laboratory, in the fields, on the looms, and in the brand.
Policies are powerful to make up for development shortcomings
“In the past few years, we have had good cotton harvests every year, and the yield has been getting higher year by year. This does not rely on luck, but on policies and technology.” On February 25, in Tuoyi, Shaya County In Talekbulon Village, Boledi Town, Aimaiti Aisan, chairman of the Golden Land Agricultural Service Farmers Professional Cooperative in Shaya County, prepared cotton seeds and other spring plowing agricultural materials, and expressed his views on the new policies and policies that have emerged in the cotton planting process this year. New projects and new technologies are full of expectations.
Shaya County is a national high-quality cotton production base, with an annual cotton planting area of about 1.9 million acres. In recent years, when the majority of farmers have made continuous profits from the cotton industry, they have also felt that good policies have brought great benefits to cotton from a seed, a seedling, and a cotton flower to a thread, a piece of cloth, and a piece of clothing. The benefits are unimaginable, and the new things brought are overwhelming.
Recently, Wu Hongtao, chairman of Xinjiang Tianyu Seed Industry Co., Ltd., pays attention to the weather conditions every day. When the temperature reaches the construction conditions, the supporting facilities of the Shaya County cotton seed breeding base project implemented by the company can start. “This project is one of the 19 sub-projects implemented to build Xinjiang’s cotton advantageous and characteristic industrial cluster. The central government has awarded 1 million yuan in subsidy funds, and our company has provided matching funds of 3 million yuan. Currently, variable temperature germination boxes, plant phenotyping imaging systems, photosynthetic meters, etc. Advanced testing equipment has been ordered, and after the project is completed, the company can greatly improve its seed testing capabilities and cotton quality testing services,” Wu Hongtao said.
The reporter learned from the Autonomous Region’s Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs that Xinjiang’s cotton advantageous and characteristic industrial clusters cover Hutubi County in Changji Prefecture, Shaya County in Aksu Prefecture, Bachu County in Kashgar Prefecture, Yuli County in Bayingolin Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture, and Borta The six counties and cities of Jinghe County in La Mongolia Autonomous Prefecture and Shawan City in Tacheng Prefecture focus on the cotton seed industry, which has weak innovation capabilities, many varieties, and poor consistency. Long-staple cotton is machine-picked, and processing equipment and technology are backward. Medium and high-end The proportion of cotton is not high; the development of production scale, standardization, and intelligence is relatively lagging behind, and planting costs continue to rise; the recovery rate of residual film in cotton fields is low, and the soilQuality and land output rate have declined; the industrial chain is loosely organized, products are homogeneous, and the entire industrial chain is not competitive. Promote chain replenishment, chain extension, and chain strengthening to promote high-quality development of Xinjiang cotton industry clusters.
In Jinghe County, a typical county in the national cotton industry chain, many large growers and agricultural machinery owners have installed satellite positioning control system sensors on large agricultural machinery, waiting for spring plowing and sowing in April. Wang Yunhai, director of the Jinghe County Rural Cooperative Economic Development Center, said that intelligent agricultural machinery is nothing new in Jinghe. In the past, it was installed in the cab of large agricultural machinery to ensure that the agricultural machinery went straight when plowing and sowing. Now with the help of precision He County’s high-quality cotton whole industry chain big data construction pilot project installs sensors in important parts of agricultural machinery and farmland soil. After integrating cotton fertilizer-saving and pesticide-saving technologies and quality traceability, you can detect plows in real time while sitting in the office. Ground depth, soil temperature and nutrient moisture, and crop growth conditions.
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The construction of agricultural industry clusters is an important carrier to promote farmers’ sustained income increase and an important way to promote rural revitalization. The cluster development of cotton industry is inseparable from�Industrial planning, land management, talent training, technical services, leadership, financial security, production and marketing docking and other multiple elements are gathered together, and efforts are made to make up for the shortcomings in each element .
It is 58 kilometers away from Urumqi Diwobao International Airport, 570 kilometers away from Horgos Port, 440 kilometers away from Alashankou Port, and 6 kilometers away from the railway and highway logistics park… The investment website of Hutubi County, a strong cotton-producing county in the country It lists the location, resources, policies and other advantages of cultivating and expanding the textile and apparel industry cluster. Li Chunmin, deputy general manager of Hutubi County Yunlong Cotton Industry Group Co., Ltd., said that the company has always been confident in the construction of Xinjiang’s cotton advantageous and characteristic industrial clusters. This year, it will build a 60,000-acre high-quality cotton production base in Hutubi County and build smart agricultural big data. The platform is connected with the processing links of the company’s cotton processing factory to achieve full traceability of cotton planting and processing.
In order to strictly control the safety and quality of cotton planting, purchasing, storage and processing, and ensure that each batch of lint cotton processed can meet national standards, Hutubi County Yunlong Cotton Industry Group Co., Ltd. continues to gather and integrate factor resources in the cotton industry. This year, the Xinzhe Agricultural Development Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of the group, will implement a production process improvement and upgrading project for the first-grade cotton ginnery. The original old production line will be upgraded and the efficiency of cotton processing will be improved by selecting domestic advanced cotton processing equipment. , providing high-quality lint cotton to spinning factories.
This year, Bachu County, a major cotton planting county, plans to plant 1.15 million acres of cotton by further optimizing the planting structure. “Although the planting area has been reduced, as the potential of various factors in the production process is further tapped, the level of intelligent management of cotton fields, the yield and quality of cotton will continue to improve.” Geng, deputy secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Director of Bachu County Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau Deyi said. At present, digital agriculture pilot projects and textile and clothing industry transformation and upgrading projects are in full swing in Bachu County.
At the same time, in the storage warehouse of Bachu Cotton Storage Logistics Co., Ltd., the largest cotton storage warehouse in the country, lint cotton bags marked with cotton “identity information” were loaded onto cars or trains by forklifts and sent to outside and outside Xinjiang. Song Tianming, manager of the company, said with emotion that the cluster development of the cotton industry has made Xinjiang’s cotton a more valuable business card. Through the carrier of cotton, Bachu County has become closer to the textile and garment industry cluster on the southeast coast. The industry The space for development is wider.
When the elements in Xinjiang’s cotton advantageous and characteristic industrial clusters are optimized and combined, many industrial advantages will be formed. With the high-quality development of the industry, these advantages will be further transformed into development advantages.
The “chain” has made significant efforts to connect farmers with farmers
From the Tarim River Basin to the economic zone on the northern slope of the Tianshan Mountains, in areas where cotton planting is relatively concentrated, a complete cotton industry chain has been initially formed. The planting, processing, services, circulation, sales and other links in the industrial chain have worked together to show huge benefits in promoting agriculture.
In Yuli County, the county where the agricultural modernization demonstration zone will be established in 2022, cotton income accounts for more than 60% of the per capita net income of farmers in the county. The new model of “high-standard farmland + smart agriculture” explored locally has enabled full coverage of cotton precision sowing and mechanized sowing; the promoted agricultural IoT technology has been widely used in modern agricultural machinery, agricultural technology, and cotton field management; implemented In the action of integrated development of rural industries, a number of “leading enterprises + cooperatives + family farms + farmers” cotton industrialization consortiums have been cultivated, and cotton textile and agricultural and sideline products processing parks have been built ;Follow the principle of “government guidance, business participation, and farmers benefit” to cultivate more agricultural socialization service subjects…
Zhang Xiaodong, Secretary of the Party Committee and Deputy Director of the Agricultural and Rural Affairs Bureau of Yuli County, introduced that since last year, Yuli County has been promoting the construction of Xinjiang’s cotton advantageous and characteristic industrial clusters and, with the support of central financial awards and subsidies, has focused on the implementation of unmanned smart farm software. Hardware upgrading and transformation demonstration base project, Zhongwang Cooperative’s agricultural cooperation project, cotton seed industry scientific research capacity improvement construction project, etc. These projects not only bring the high-quality development of Yuli County’s cotton industry to a new level, but also allow the majority of farmers to benefit from the cotton economy. Get more benefits.
“Now, we grow cotton with less worry and labor year by year, which not only saves costs, but also improves cotton yield and quality. This is due to the unified varieties, unified plots, unified sowing, and unified planting explored by the agricultural department. The whole production model of unified management, unified harvesting, unified delivery and processing of cotton.” On February 26, Wang Yongwen, chairman of the Wenping Farmers Professional Cooperative in Shawan City, said.
Shawan City is the national high-quality commercial cotton production base, with an annual cotton planting area of about 1.8 million acres. In recent years, while vigorously promoting the scale, intensification, and mechanization of cotton production, the local area has also stepped up efforts to attract investment around cotton brand building, focusing on establishing an integrated model of primary, secondary, and tertiary industries for the entire cotton industry chain from seeds to clothing, and promoting the improvement of cotton production. Increase quality and efficiency, and attract cotton farmers who have transferred their land to employment at their doorstep to increase their income.
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