The Xinjiang Corps fully exploits new cotton, and its mechanization level ranks among the top in China
Entering October, the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, an important commercial cotton production base in China, is fully mining new cotton. In the silver cotton sea, cotton picking machines are galloping back and forth, greatly improving the harvesting efficiency.
Located in the “East Gate” of Xinjiang, Xinxing City of the 13th Division of the Xinjiang Corps has planted more than 210,000 acres of cotton this year, and it is expected that all will be harvested in late October. In recent years, with the accelerated pace of agricultural modernization, cotton planting in this division has been fully mechanized.
Han Wen, a cotton grower from the Seventh Lian Company of Rocket Farm of the 13th Division, said: “If everything goes well, our 50 acres of cotton can be harvested in half a day, and the harvesting fee for one acre of land is 200 yuan (RMB, the same below). It saves labor, effort and money.”
Fu Jianglu, head of Hami Xinxing Agricultural Machinery Service Professional Cooperative, introduced that this year, the cotton planting farms of Xinxing City of the 13th Division signed a rental service agreement with Jiangsu Wode Group and introduced 57 cotton harvesters for the division. Cotton farmers in the city and Hami City harvest cotton, and currently have signed harvesting agreements for nearly 300,000 acres.
As cotton continues to spew, mechanical harvesting of 1.82 million acres of cotton in Wujiaqu City, the Sixth Division, located in northern Xinjiang, has begun in full swing, and cotton purchasing companies have also opened scales to purchase.
He Liping, an employee of the 7th Company of the 6th Division Communist Youth League Farm, will plant 150 acres of cotton this year, with an expected yield per mu of more than 400 kilograms. “I have been growing cotton for seven or eight years, and this year should be the most profitable year.”
Alar City, the First Division, located in southern Xinjiang, is China’s famous “hometown of long-staple cotton” and the long-staple cotton grown is famous at home and abroad. On October 10, 117,300 acres of cotton in Huaqiao Town, the 11th Regiment of the First Division, will be picked on a large scale.
Ren Shanfu, an employee of the Sixth Company of Huaqiao Town, the Eleventh Regiment, has leveled the field ridges in advance to prepare for mechanical picking. Ren Shanfu said that his family’s 100 acres of cotton has an average yield of 480 kilograms per mu. If calculated based on last year’s purchase price, the net income would be about 150,000 yuan.
Xinjiang Corps has 110 regiment farms growing cotton. The cotton industry is the pillar industry and advantageous industry of Xinjiang Corps agriculture, and plays a decisive role in the economy of Xinjiang Corps. In 2020, the Xinjiang Corps planted more than 12.97 million acres of cotton and produced more than 2.13 million tons of cotton. It produced more than one-third of the country’s cotton with a quarter of the country’s area. This year, the Xinjiang Corps’ cotton planting area is basically the same as last year.
Thanks to the unique light and heat conditions, Xinjiang Corps cotton has a high quality advantage in the country. Over the years, Xinjiang Corps cotton has been at the forefront of China in terms of mechanization, scale, water-saving irrigation, and scientific and technological support. By the end of 2020, the comprehensive mechanization rate of cultivation and harvesting in the Xinjiang Corps’ planting industry reached 95.2%; the cotton mechanical picking rate was 90.9%, making it the largest mechanized cotton picking base in China.
This year, the Xinjiang Corps has improved cotton quality from the source, implemented new measures to increase production, and supported science and technology to ensure that cotton production quality has steadily improved and enhanced market competitiveness.
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