Has cotton machine harvesting efficiency improved this year?

Since the beginning of October, agricultural machinery operator Li Maotai has not had a full night’s sleep because there are too many phone calls.

“Mota, when will the cotton picking machine be ready?”

“Mota, wait for the cotton picker to enter the ground.”

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The cotton harvesting area of the Fifth Company of the 222nd Regiment of the 12th Division is about 20,000 acres. Why are cotton pickers so popular? One cotton picking machine can pick 200 acres of cotton every day. With such a fast speed, is the picking rate high? Do growers prefer to useimported cotton pickers or domestic cotton pickers?

The relevant person in charge of the Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau of the Corps stated that this year the Corps’ cotton planting area is 13.082 million acres. Due to climate reasons, cotton harvesting times are concentrated in northern and southern Xinjiang, and cotton pickers can effectively solve cotton harvesting problems. As my country’s mechanized cotton picking base, the cotton mechanical harvesting rate of the Corps has exceeded 90%.

Li Maotai knows the advantages of Jicai very well.

“Machine harvesting is so trouble-free!” Li Maotai said, and it took just over an hour to harvest dozens of acres of land. This year, 100% of the cotton farmers in the 222nd Group chose machine harvesting.

Compared with previous years, has cotton machine harvesting improved efficiency this year?

“The efficiency is quite high.” said Li Chengqing, a cotton farmer who has been growing cotton for many years. “First of all, the cost has dropped. Now manual picking costs more than 2 yuan per kilogram, and the cost of machine picking is less than 1 yuan. Secondly, the integration of cotton picking and packaging has been achieved. The cotton is packed into bales in the field, which not only saves the need for trailers and The cost of supporting equipment such as a palletizer and labor costs, and the cotton picker does not need to stop to unload the cotton, so the cotton can be picked easily, and the land can be plowed earlier, laying a solid foundation for next year’s production.”

Is the recovery rate high?

Li Maotai said that the net recovery rate of mechanical mining is above 94%. It is not easy for farmers to cultivate the land. The cotton must be picked cleanly and returned to the warehouse. Judging from the feedback received these days, everyone is quite satisfied.

In the 222nd Regiment, like Li Maotai, driving a cotton picker in the cotton fields was Ma Yongqing, an agricultural machine operator.

This year, Ma Yongqing replaced his imported cotton pickers with domestic cotton pickers, and orders were in short supply.

Why replace imported cotton pickers with domestic cotton pickers?

It turned out that Ma Yongqing found that domestic cotton pickers that integrated picking and packaging were very popular among growers, so he replaced his imported cotton pickers that could not be packaged with domestic cotton pickers with packaging functions.

“From the perspective of net picking rate, domestic cotton pickers are on par or even slightly better than imported cotton pickers, and the packaging function saves trouble and money!” After Ma Yongqing tried picking in the 103rd Regiment of the Sixth Division, the employees After seeing the harvesting results, they rushed to tell each other. Many employees came to Ma Yongqing and expressed that they wanted “red” cotton pickers instead of “green” cotton pickers.

“The red ones are domestic cotton pickers, and the green ones are imported cotton pickers.” Ma Yongqing said that the technical level of domestic cotton pickers is at the forefront of the world.

By the end of October, Ma Yongqing had completed the task of harvesting 15,000 acres of cotton fields. Although he worked at full capacity every day, he was very happy with the fruitful results.

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