Aksushaya County: Visit a major cotton-growing county to see changes
Chinese cotton looks at Xinjiang. Thanks to the unique light and heat conditions, Xinjiang’s cotton output, yield, planting area, and commodity allocation have ranked first in the country for 28 consecutive years. In 2022, Xinjiang’s cotton planting area will account for more than 80% of the country’s total, and its output will account for more than 90%, reaching a record high.
Starting from the end of March, spring cotton sowing has begun in the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, and is now nearing completion. In the past few days, reporters have traveled to Shaya County in Aksu Prefecture, a major cotton-growing county in the country and the country’s high-quality commercial cotton production base, going deep into the fields and factory workshops to talk about development and changes, and record the entire industrial chain of cotton planting, harvesting and processing. profound changes occurred.
From “fighting alone” to “working together” to operate on a large scale
Shaya County is located on the northwest edge of the Tarim Basin. In recent years, the cotton planting area has stabilized at around 1.8 million acres, ranking among the top in Xinjiang. On April 23, in Tarim Township, 80 kilometers away from the county seat, the reporter saw that in the endless cotton fields, cotton seedlings had their mulch peeled off, revealing their buds, a scene full of vitality.
“The 210,000 acres of cotton in the township have basically been sown. With the help of large machinery and socialized services from cooperatives, the speed of spring sowing has been greatly increased, from the original one month to the current 10 days. A seeder can sow thousands of seeds a day. acres.” Zheng Weidong, a member of the Tarim Township Party Committee, said that the main body of cotton planting has now changed from cotton households to cooperatives.
Passing through the green branches of Populus euphratica, we arrived at Yangtakbashi Village. In the small courtyard of the Wanli Star Farmers Cooperative, agricultural machinery such as rotary tillers, seeders, and high-horsepower tractors are lined up in rows, and agricultural inputs such as fertilizers, pesticides, and seeds are stacked in stacks. More than 10 workers worked in pairs to modify agricultural machinery.
Ma Pengcheng, the leader of the cooperative, is busy. In 1990, he came to Xinjiang from his hometown in Sichuan and was assigned 13 acres of cotton fields. In 2012, he initiated the establishment of a cooperative and transferred more than 5,000 acres of land with his relatives to grow cotton.
“It used to be that every household planted separately, but in the past 10 years, cooperatives have unified the method, saving time and effort.” Ma Pengcheng said that in the past, farmers could only buy one or two small agricultural machines, but now cooperatives buy dozens of large agricultural machines. ” Look, this high-horsepower tractor costs more than 1 million yuan, that cotton picking machine costs more than 4 million yuan, and the agricultural machinery in this yard alone is worth more than 10 million yuan.”
It’s not just agricultural machinery that “changes from shotgun to cannon.” In the past two years, with the continuous advancement of high-standard fertile land, more and more land plots have realized the transformation from “palm fields” to “large strips of fields” and from “low-yield fields” to “high-efficiency fields”. This has created a great opportunity for cooperatives. Provides space to show off one’s talents.
A number of professional cooperatives have grown up. The Shaya County Demin Planting Farmers Professional Cooperative, composed of 10 cooperatives, radiates to 5 surrounding administrative villages, with a total planting area of 20,000 acres, and drives more than 1,200 farmers to provide field management, production services, and technology promotion for cotton farmers. and other production and hosting services, with an annual net income of more than 20 million yuan.
“At present, there are more than 200 planting cooperatives in Shaya County, with the minimum planting area exceeding 1,000 acres. They have become the ‘main force’ of cotton planting and continue to promote cotton planting mechanization, large-scale operations and standardized production. “Slajiddin Maimaiti, director of the Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau of Shaya County, said.
More and more domestic cotton picking machines are running in cotton fields
In the Modern Agricultural Machinery Equipment Industrial Park in Shaya County, the reporter walked into the Bo Shiran factory area and saw a busy scene.
In the workshop, hundreds of cotton pickers over 5 meters high and 10 meters long are being assembled on the assembly line; outside the workshop, cotton pickers that have been sold and showed off their skills in the last cotton picking season are lined up. , specially returned to the factory for repair and maintenance; in the factory area, driver training classes and technician training classes are in full swing.
In the sales exhibition hall, more than 10 models of cotton pickers, seeders, and sprayers were lined up, attracting waves of inquirers. “This 3-row self-propelled round bale cotton picking machine is priced at 2.28 million yuan, with a government subsidy of 400,000 yuan; the 6-row self-propelled round bale cotton picking machine is priced at 4.58 million yuan, and one can It takes 1,500 people to pick it by hand, which is about 2 million yuan cheaper than imported cotton.” The salesperson said with pride, “It turns out that the cotton fields in Xinjiang are all cotton imported from abroad. Machines, now domestically produced has become the ‘protagonist’!”
According to company technicians, from an international perspective, cotton pickers are typical technology-integrated high-end agricultural machinery and require huge investment in research and development. As the largest cotton-producing area in the country, although Xinjiang has started the development of cotton picking machines since the 1990s, it has never been able to break through the core technology. High-end cotton picking machines have always been controlled by others and have been monopolized by foreign brands for a long time. The import rate was once at 90 %above.
In 2018, as a Zhejiang aid enterprise, Bao Shiran went to Shaya County to invest in the construction of an intelligent agricultural machinery Co., Ltd. From the initial traction type to the current self-propelled type, from 3 rows to 6 rows, from box type to round bale baling, the company has obtained 178 patents in the field of cotton picking machines, and has mass-produced multiple types of cotton picking machines to fill the domestic gap. . In the past two years, the company has continuously maintained sales of more than 400 units, and its output value will exceed 500 million yuan in 2022, making it a leader in the domestic cotton picking machine industry.
At the same time, China Railway Construction Heavy Industry,�Many agricultural machinery companies such as Agricultural Equipment and Swan Co., Ltd. have entered Xinjiang one after another and have made breakthroughs in independent innovation of cotton picking machines. They have overcome many “stuck neck” technologies including automatic control systems, and have continuously caught up with foreign investment in terms of net harvesting rate. brand and continuously expand market share. These Chinese companies have established an efficient and convenient after-sales service system, providing 24-hour uninterrupted services during the cotton picking season, and have won the recognition of cotton farmers.
Industry statistics show that domestic cotton pickers account for more than 80% of the Xinjiang market, and more and more “Made in China” products are shining as “domestic products” in Xinjiang’s cotton fields
Development of the entire cotton industry chain
When traveling among the textile enterprises in the Shaya County Circular Economy Industrial Park, you can see the entire process from cotton to cotton yarn to cotton cloth and even ready-made garments.
Walking into the production workshop of Xinjiang Lihua Textile Co., Ltd., machines roared, yarn shuttles whirled, and workers were busy in various positions such as spinning, blocking cars, doffing, and packaging of finished products. In the first quarter of this year, the company’s net profit increased 4.5 times year-on-year, achieving a good start.
“At present, we have established a million-acre high-quality cotton planting base and 860,000 spindle spinning production lines in Shaya County, creating a linked development model of front-end planting and back-end spinning, and achieving the integration of the primary, secondary and tertiary industries. The development has created employment for more than 3,600 people, which has strongly promoted the development of the textile industry in Shaya County.” said Yuan Fangfang, general manager of Xinjiang Lihua Textile Co., Ltd.
Aksu Zhenglun Industrial Co., Ltd. from Jiangsu is a weaving company. Entering the No. 1 weaving workshop, three extra-wide sizing production lines are at full capacity, 600 high-speed air-jet looms are running at high speed, and batches of gray fabrics are continuously output. Precisely because of the local raw material advantages and industrial development trend, the company leaders, while continuously expanding the production scale, introduced two more weaving companies from Jiangsu through “business promotion” for common development.
Entrepreneur Gao Fengqin also serves as the CEO of Xinjiang Shouxin Seed Industry Technology Co., Ltd., Shaya ShouxinCotton Textile Co., Ltd., and Shaya Jinsong Industrial Clothing Co., Ltd. principal. She said that following the footsteps of Shaya County’s cotton industry to extend and strengthen the chain, the business is getting bigger and bigger, and she has also witnessed the entire cotton industry chain in Shaya County from “selling cotton” to “selling cloth” and “selling clothes”. develop.
“Currently, 5,000 air-jet looms have been gathered in our park, with an annual output of 1.64 million spindles of spinning yarn and 800,000 sets of clothing. This year, a cotton straw and cotton oil deep processing project was launched to further extend the cotton industry chain.” Song Ye, deputy secretary and deputy director of the Party Working Committee of the Shaya County Circular Economy Industrial Park Management Committee, said that nearly 50% of the county’s cotton has been converted into textile products on site, and the cotton industry has become a driver of Shaya’s economic and social progressQualityOne of the strategic pillar industries for development.
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