Serious Shortage Of Cotton Picking Workers In Xinjiang Affects Procurement Progress

According to the voice of China "national news network" report, Xinjiang cotton A large harvest has been achieved this year, but cotton picking workers in some areas are seriously inadequate, which has affected the harvest progress.

Reporters in the Xinjiang production and Construction Corps six Division 106 regiment 23 thousand acres of cotton fields to see, although the cotton picking cost from last year's 1 yuan to 2 blocks now, but there are still a lot of cotton is not enough time to pick, these cotton if not picked in time, once encountered bad weather, will seriously affect the quality of cotton or even harvest.

Lv Bencai, the 106 cotton contractor, has planted 72 mu of cotton this year. It will soon be winter, but half of his cotton is still there. Pick :

We have been picking up since the end of August, and have been looking for it for the past few years. There are few flower pickups. We can not find any flower picker. We have just picked up half of it. The weather is fine.

This year, the six Division of agriculture has grown 650 thousand mu of cotton and needs 43 thousand cotton workers. Gap Up to 16 thousand people. Gong Xinbin, director of the labor division of the six agricultural division, told reporters that the main reason for the shortage of cotton pickers was that the rise in cotton prices led to an increase in picking fees.

The increase in the purchase price also caused the rise of pickup prices. The contract workers could not accept the rising price of flower picking, and could not sign the agreement of flower recruitment, resulting in a shortage of flower workers.

In addition, Xinjiang's Bo Zhou, Kuitun, Wusu and other places are also facing the shortage of cotton picker in various degrees. For various reasons, the gap of cotton picker can not be counted. At present, all parts of Xinjiang are actively organizing idle labor to invest in cotton picking.