Manas: Smart agriculture makes the cotton industry even better
Since the beginning of summer, all 700,000 acres of cotton in Manas County have sprouted and are growing well. Right now, it is the critical season for cotton field management in summer. In the thousand-acre cotton field of Zhou Yongpeng, a villager from Heiliang Village, Letuyi Town, Manas County, several driverless tractors equipped with Beidou navigation systems are following preset routes. Carry out field management operations such as cultivating and spraying pesticides.
“Now the seedlings are emerging quite well and growing well, with three leaves and one core and four leaves and one core. Our key work these two days is cultivating and spraying pesticides. We use the Beidou navigation unmanned system for cultivating. The depth and evenness can be kept consistent, and the seedlings will not be damaged or buried,” said villager Zhou Yongpeng.
Two years ago, Heiliang Village closely focused on the supply-side structural reform of cotton, adjusted the agricultural industrial structure, integrated 8,000 acres of cultivated land in the village, built high-standard farmland, turned small fields into large fields, and vigorously promoted the use of new New cotton planting technologies such as water-saving drip irrigation and Beidou navigation driverless system have enabled agricultural production to become more intensive and large-scale.
“My 1,000 acres of cotton land is high-standard farmland. I used to hire more than 10 flower pickers, but now I don’t need any labor from planting to harvesting. The whole process is mechanized, so labor costs are saved. Yes, you can save more than 300 yuan on just one acre of picking fees.” Zhou Yongpeng did some calculations for the author.
In the construction of high-standard farmland, a new smart irrigation system was also implemented. Nowadays, Zhou Yongpeng can irrigate cotton fields remotely through mobile APP software. Water, nutrients, and drugs are accurately transported to the root soil of crops through drip irrigation, improving the accuracy of irrigation, fertilization, and pesticide application, and realizing cotton production managementIntelligent. Through the use of smart agricultural irrigation and water-saving systems, the amount of chemical fertilizers and pesticides has been reduced by about 20%, the utilization rate of fertilizers has increased by 10%, the utilization rate of chemical pesticides has increased by more than 6%, and cotton production has increased by 3% on average. In 2020, the average yield per 1,000 acres of cotton planted by Zhou Yongpeng reached 480 kilograms.
Good cotton is grown. Good varieties and good quality are two words that Zhou Yongpeng often talks about in the past two years. Just three years ago, Zhou Yongpeng suffered a big loss because he only talked about quantity and not quality. After the cotton price reform was implemented, the market forced cotton farmers to optimize planting varieties, improve cotton quality, and cultivate high-quality cotton intensively.
“We will grow whatever cotton the company needs. This is the so-called order farming. This makes it easier to produce high-quality products at a good price, which greatly improves our ability to withstand market risks.” Zhou Yongpeng said.
In 2020, the National Cotton Trading Market will set up a second headquarters in Xinjiang. Through a comprehensive cotton supply chain service platform, it will effectively integrate warehouses, roads, railways and other resources to provide commodity cotton trading, supervision, logistics and distribution for the entire cotton industry chain. Funding, data information and other professional services.
Ma Youhong, general manager of Manas Yintian Cotton Industry Co., Ltd., pays attention to the cotton supply chain comprehensive service platform every day. Through this platform, he can keep abreast of cotton production and sales and other related situations, timely adjust production and operation strategies, and ensure corporate profits. , increase farmers’ income.
“In the past, it took two or three months to know that the price of cotton in the mainland had increased, and we were quite passive. Now with this platform, our communication with mainland companies has been strengthened, and we can obtain information more quickly. According to big data, We speed up the transfer of land, cooperate well with farmers, select high-quality varieties, and use new technologies to improve the quality of our Xinjiang cotton, benefiting both agricultural enterprises and enterprises,” Ma Youhong said.
This year, Manas County has actively optimized the cotton planting structure and established a new mechanism for the integrated development of the primary, secondary and tertiary industries through a new mechanism of interest linkage of “leading supply and marketing cooperative enterprises + social service organizations + farmers’ planting professional cooperatives + farmers”. system, further promote the integration of the cotton production chain and the integrated development of the industrial chain, and promote the transformation and upgrading of the cotton industry and the overall improvement of quality and efficiency.
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