Cotton sowing work in Korla City proceeds in an orderly manner
In the past few days, towns and villages around Korla have taken advantage of the fine weather to seize favorable opportunities for cotton sowing and rush to sow cotton. Korla City plans to sow about 880,000 acres of cotton this year.
On April 20, in the cotton planting field of Korla Baotou Lake Farm, accompanied by the rumbling sound of agricultural machinery, a cotton seeder was shuttled back and forth in the field to sow seeds. Three workers followed the seeder closely to check the trenching, Sowing, spreading film, covering with soil, etc.
Yang Yongqiang, a cotton grower at Baotou Lake Farm, said: “This year I planted 350 acres of cotton, and the entire process from plowing to sowing was mechanized in 3 days. Not only sowing, but also harvesting, including drone spraying. , the entire process is mechanized, which reduces our labor costs, saves costs, and increases profits.”
In recent years, Korla City has actively guided cotton farmers to plant and pick cotton, promoted the full mechanization of cotton production, and introduced intelligent agricultural equipment such as plant protection drones and driverless tractors. , Promote the highquality development of the cotton industry. Today, the entire process of land preparation, precision sowing, drone spraying, efficient water-saving drip irrigation, and cotton picking machine harvesting is mechanized and intelligent, effectively promoting the improvement of cotton quality and efficiency.
“Baotou Lake Farm expects to sow cotton on an area of about 54,000 acres this year. So far, more than 51,000 acres of cotton have been sown, which is basically 95% completed. We will gradually start sowing cotton from April 4. It is expected that by April Cotton sowing will be fully completed before the 25th. The mechanization of cotton plowing and sowing to harvesting will be fully implemented, liberating the labor force of farmers. After the implementation of mechanized cotton picking, farmers’ income will increase by nearly 400 yuan per mu of land.” said Tan Jianjun, deputy director of Baotou Lake Farm. .
The reporter learned from the Korla Municipal Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau that in order to comprehensively promote the high-quality development of the cotton industry, this year will accelerate the implementation of high-standard farmland construction, vigorously promote high-efficiency water-saving drip irrigation and promote the machine-picked cotton planting model, and guide cotton production to the entire process. With the transformation to mechanization, the city has so far completed 256,000 acres of cotton planting, and the entire cotton sowing work will basically be completed by the end of April.
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