Changji Prefecture welcomes a bumper harvest of 2.078 million acres of cotton, and cotton production is basically fully mechanized

In the mid-autumn season, 2.078 million acres of cotton in our state burst into buds and sprouts. The cotton plants are waist-deep with peaches and covered with autumn peaches. The cotton fields are “abundant” and the scenery is picturesque. At present, cotton across the state has gradually entered the harvest period, and cotton pickers have become the “main force” in cotton-producing areas to ensure that the harvested cotton wadding is returned to the warehouse.

On October 1, in Wenjiazhuang Village, Letuyi Town, Manas County, white velvet cotton blossoms were blooming in the cotton fields. The heavy cotton bolls bent the cotton stalks. When the breeze blew, the cotton bolls moved up and down. Swinging as if nodding to people.

This is the cotton field of Lesheng Cotton Planting Cooperative in Manas County. Ma Youhong, the head of the cooperative, picked a cotton boll and said: This year, the cooperative has planted more than 30,000 acres of cotton, distributed in villages in Letuyi Town, and planted three cotton varieties. The quality of the cotton is very good, with a velvet length of more than 29 mm.

After the cotton target price policy was implemented, the market forced cotton farmers to optimize planting varieties, improve cotton quality, and cultivate crops intensively. Good cotton. In recent years, the cotton grown by Ma Youhong has adopted high-standard cotton field water-saving irrigation, dense planting with film mulching, plant protection drone spraying and other planting technologies, which has greatly improved the cotton fruit setting rate, with each cotton plant producing about 6-7 peaches.

There were bursts of mechanical roar, and a self-propelled cotton baling and picking machine shuttled back and forth in the cotton field. Each cotton was quickly swallowed into the “belly” of the machine. After completing the picking, compression, packaging and other processes, Cylindrical cotton bales are spit out from the rear of the machine, and the cotton bales are stacked neatly on the ground.

Ma Youhong, 60 years old, has been farming for more than 40 years. He said with emotion: In the past, the 40 acres of cotton grown by my family required more than a dozen people to manually pick it for more than a month, which was both time-consuming and laborious. Now more than 30,000 acres of cotton fields are all harvested by machines. Starting from September 26 to the end of October, all cotton fields can be harvested in about 30 days. Compared with manual picking, machine picking saves 600 yuan per mu of land.

Nowadays, in Letuyi Town, we can no longer see a large number of flower pickers. Large cotton pickers are distributed in the cotton fields of each village. The cotton picked by cotton pickers greatly reduces the planting costs of cotton farmers and increases their income.

“From the beginning of spring sowing, we have adopted unmanned precision sowing technology, which is accurately positioned by the Beidou navigation system. The vertical error of sowing does not exceed 2 centimeters, ensuring that cotton pickers can be used for harvesting.” Ma. Youhong said that the current purchase price of cotton is 9-10 yuan per kilogram. Last year, he earned 500 yuan per mu of land. This year’s income will definitely be higher than last year.

Cotton is the leading industry and pillar industry of our state’s planting industry. It occupies a very important position among the economic crops grown throughout the state and is one of the main sources of increased income for farmers.

This year, a total of 2.078 million acres of cotton have been planted in our state. There are 483 cotton harvesting machines, including 5 new ones. They have been upgraded from ordinary cotton pickers to combined mechanical harvesting and packaging machines. Machine-picked cotton has become a popular choice in the field. A beautiful landscape at the end of the land.

By the end of 2020, the level of mechanical tillage and sowing of cotton in the state will reach 100%, and the level of mechanical harvesting will reach 100%. Cotton production will basically be fully mechanized, which can save costs and increase efficiency by more than 400 yuan per mu.

While cotton farmers are taking advantage of the fine weather to harvest, technicians from agricultural departments at all levels across the state also send technology and services to the site to ensure the smooth progress of the autumn harvest. In the past few days, agricultural technicians have guided agricultural machinery cooperatives and agricultural machinery households in the maintenance, repair and commissioning of cotton harvesting machinery, and supported agricultural machinery manufacturers and dealers in providing after-sales services. As of now, all 483 cotton harvesting machines in the state have been installed Complete inspection, debugging and maintenance.

At the same time, the State Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau held an on-site meeting to promote cotton mechanized sowing and topping technology to accelerate the promotion and application of new mechanized cotton production technologies, introduce demonstrations and promote cotton mechanized production technologies suitable for our state, promote the integration of agricultural machinery and agronomy, and strive to supplement The shortcomings in key areas and weak links have been addressed, and the entire cotton production process has been mechanized, including mechanical deep loosening, mechanical autumn plowing, mechanical precision soil preparation, mechanical precision sowing, mechanical precision plant protection, and mechanized harvesting.

The agricultural and rural departments across the state actively encourage users to apply for subsidies off-site through mobile APPs and other off-site applications, and support users to purchase first and replenish later, further facilitating farmers’ purchase and use of machines and ensuring that the subsidy policy is implemented to the letter. So far, the state has purchased 5 new large-scale cotton picking machines, enjoying state subsidies of 2.19 million yuan.

It is worth mentioning that the Manas County Finance Bureau has allocated a special subsidy fund of 1.5 million yuan and plans to subsidize 30 units. It will provide cumulative subsidies for cotton balers. Each baler will receive a county financial subsidy of 50,000 yuan, further reducing the Impurity content of seed cotton after machine harvesting improves cotton quality.

Agricultural and rural departments at all levels across the state use townships and village groups as units to calculate the balance of machinery and land, guide and urge agricultural machinery cooperatives, agricultural machinery households and planting cooperatives, and growers to sign machinery harvesting operation contracts in a timely manner, and actively coordinate and develop cross-regional According to the operation scheduling plan, on the premise of ensuring that the cotton machine picking area in the jurisdiction is completed on time, 217 cotton picking machines have been sent to Aksu, Bazhou and Xingtuan Farm to carry out cross-regional operations.

In addition, combined with the characteristics of agricultural mechanization production in autumn and the requirements for safe production work, agricultural production across the stateThe industrial and rural departments should fully implement the safety production responsibility system, strengthen safety production inspections, strengthen safety education and operation technology training for agricultural machinery operators, eliminate hidden dangers of agricultural machinery accidents, and promote the rapid, efficient and safe development of agricultural machinery operations.

In recent years, our prefecture has actively promoted the full-process mechanization technology of cotton production in accordance with the overall layout of “stabilizing grain, improving cotton, strengthening planting, expanding storage, refining fruits, increasing forage grass, and developing characteristics”, and agricultural and rural departments at all levels have reasonably Deploy cotton pickers and prioritize the harvesting area in the jurisdiction to ensure that one piece of cotton is mature and one piece is harvested, laying the foundation for improving the comprehensive benefits of Xinjiang’s cotton production.

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