Two “post-90s” people in Xinjiang challenge the management of 3,000 acres of cotton fields
Two young men born in the 1990s issued a “military order” and jointly challenged to plant 3,000 acres of cotton. This topic has become a hot topic in Yuli, a major cotton-producing county in Xinjiang.
On the 27th, a reporter saw in a cotton field in Yuli County, Xinjiang, a tractor equipped with an agricultural machinery autopilot sowing cotton autonomously; an agricultural IoT device stood like a guard on the field, monitoring the images and weather of the cotton field in real time And soil data… Ai Haipeng, a young man born in the 1990s in Yuli County, holds his mobile phone and keeps track of the weather conditions in the cotton fields through the APP. Despite wearing a sun hat, his skin was tanned.
“Look, the ‘scarecrow’ on the ground transmits the monitored surface temperature and soil moisture data to the mobile phone. After we determine the sowing date, the tractor equipped with the autopilot goes to work in the field!” Ai Haipeng told reporters, In addition to reducing manpower in the sowing process, smart agricultural machinery also plays a major role in weeding and spraying pesticides during the cotton growth period. Unmanned agricultural vehicles and plant protection drones also play a major role.
Ai Haipeng has been exposed to it since childhood and learned certain basic knowledge of cotton planting from his fathers. After graduating from college, he returned to Yuli County and became a plant protection drone pilot; in 2020, using plant protection drones, With agricultural unmanned vehicles, agricultural IoT equipment and smart agricultural management systems, the output of the 4 acres of smart cotton field he planted and managed exceeded 400 kilograms.
In order to verify whether this cotton planting model is suitable for large-scale cotton field planting, during the spring sowing season this year, Ai Haipeng and Ling Lei, another local “post-90s” boy from Yuli, participated in the super cotton field launched by a Guangzhou technology company in Xinjiang Challenge, the two of them jointly plant and manage 3,000 acres of cotton fields. During the autumn harvest at the end of September, the cotton yield per mu of land will reach more than 300 kilograms.
In the traditional cotton planting model, 30 laborers are needed to cultivate, plant, manage and harvest 3,000 acres of cotton fields. The cotton planting challenges of Ai Haipeng and Ling Lei are incredible to some cotton farmers in Yuli who have been growing cotton for more than 20 years. , since the spring sowing, Ai Haipeng’s cotton fields have attracted many cotton farmers to watch.
“In the past, whether it was to judge cotton sowing conditions or check the seedling emergence rate, we needed to manually squat in the field. Now we can just leave these tasks to the ‘scarecrow’ on the ground.” Ai Haipeng smiled and introduced to the observing cotton farmers. , the ‘scarecrow’ on the ground is an agricultural IoT device, which can promptly transmit the monitored data such as surface temperature, soil humidity and moisture to mobile phones; during the 135-day growth cycle of cotton, unmanned vehicles in agriculture, unmanned plant protection, etc. Humans and machines will replace humans and work in the fields one after another to complete spraying, fertilizing and weeding operations; during the cotton harvest season at the end of September, plant protection drones can also efficiently carry out defoliant spraying operations to facilitate concentrated harvesting by cotton pickers.
Regarding the production capacity of this land, based on the successful trial planting experience last year, Ling Lei is also full of confidence: “Through unmanned chemical water and fertilizer management and scientific irrigation, the average cotton yield per mu in the trial field increased by 104 kilograms last year.”
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Zhang Xiaodong, Secretary of the Party Committee and Deputy Director of the Agricultural and Rural Affairs Bureau of Yuli County, introduced that in 2021, Yuli County plans to plant 1.02 million acres of cotton. High productivity is inseparable from a highly mechanized and automated production method. At present, the mechanization level of cotton planting in Yuli County has reached Reaching 96%, Super Cotton Field relies on the advanced technology of smart agriculture. All aspects of cotton from sowing, management to harvesting have been mechanized, scientific, and intelligent, which will reduce labor costs. cost and improve the comprehensive benefits of cotton. In the next step, Yuli County will speed up the promotion and popularization of smart agricultural technology to provide a strong impetus for the highquality development of agriculture in Yuli County. (over)
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