Xinjiang Manas: Grow high-quality cotton and bear fruit of wealth

Xinjiang Manas: Grow high-quality cotton and bear fruit of wealth

“Since using the Beidou satellite navigation system, agricultural machinery is like having a ‘brain’ and ‘eyes’, and farming has become easier.” On May 13, Beidou, Manas County Pan Xiaoqin, a cotton grower in Sanchakou Village, Cha Town, said with emotion.

In the tens of thousands of acres of cotton fields in front of us, the green cotton seedlings are growing gratifyingly. From the sowing and seedling stage to the field management stage of strong seedlings, Zheng Hongjun, a villager in Sanchakou Village, owns a Beidou satellite navigation unmanned system smart agricultural machine. He replaces it with a variety of new farm tools, accurately shuttles back and forth in the cotton field, and seals the soil in an orderly manner. , insect control and other field management operations.

“Compared with traditional sowing methods, Beidou satellite navigation unmanned sowing can increase yield by more than 60 kilograms per acre of high-quality cotton. Coupled with precision sowing, more than 50% of cotton seeds can be saved. Entering the field management stage, wisdom Agricultural machinery can also spray pesticides and fertilize targets, significantly saving pesticides and fertilizers. This ‘one increase and one subtraction’ can earn more than 300 yuan per mu of land.” Taking advantage of the break in agricultural machinery operations, Zheng Hongjun and Pan Xiaoqin began to increase their income in the field. account.

“If you want to grow cotton, grow high-quality cotton. Only high-quality cotton can be sold at a good price.” Pan Xiaoqin said. In the spring of 6 years ago, still in this land, the accounts they calculated were not what they are now.

In 2014, the state abolished the temporary cotton purchase and storage system and replaced it with target price subsidies, and launched a reform pilot in our district. At that time, the demand for medium and low-quality cotton in the market was becoming saturated, and prices were also falling. In the spring of 2015, Pan Xiaoqin felt worried when looking at his cotton fields.

Pan Xiaoqin said that at that time, most of the cotton farmers in the county were decentralized and planted more than 50 varieties of cotton. Each cotton variety had different management techniques, maturity time, yieldquality font>There are differences. Enterprises and growers have realized that if the cotton industry wants to continue, it must develop as a team and improve cotton quality at the same time.

In 2016, with the support of the Manas County Party Committee and the government, Manas County Yintian Cotton Industry Co., Ltd. and Letuyi Town Leyuan Farmers Professional Cooperative took the lead in adopting the “enterprise + cooperative + farmer” management method for planting 30,000 acres of cotton. Unified management was implemented from cotton seed selection to planting to harvesting, and the ginning factory also implemented separate stacking and ginning for distribution. The quality of cotton was greatly improved and it became a hot commodity in the market. The cooperatives and farmers even received a second dividend that year.

“That batch of cotton is 1,000 yuan per ton higher than other medium and low-quality cotton. This fully shows that high-quality cotton is favored by the market, and both enterprises and farmers can benefit.” The person in charge of the Letuyi Ginning Factory of Yintian Cotton Industry Sagittarius Youhong said.

It is understood that in the past few years, Manas County has promoted intensive cotton production and driven the entire cotton industry chain of production, processing, circulation and textile by building a cotton industry production, supply and marketing consortium of “agricultural enterprises join hands and multi-party collaboration” develop. At the same time, through the promotion of unified varieties, unified planting, unified harvesting and other models, new technologies are widely used to gradually improve cotton quality and market competitiveness, and increase farmers’ income.

This year Manas County introduced a high-quality development implementation plan. “With the goal of optimizing the structure of cotton varieties and improving the quality oflint, the county has increased investment in the construction of cotton field infrastructure and promoted technology in the cotton production process Innovate and strengthen the construction of cotton production equipment support capabilities to ensure that high-yield and high-quality raw cotton accounts for more than 90%, laying a good foundation for improving the quality, efficiency and sustainable development of the cotton industry.” said Wang Yimin, deputy head of Manas County.