The Largest Cotton Producing Area In The World: Tarim Basin, Xinjiang

In the Alar Reclamation Area along the Tarim River, ten thousand hectares of cotton fields are white.

Despite the shortage of flower workers this year, the agricultural workers of the three regiment of the regiment, the first agricultural division, are very calm.

Technology and even Hao Jiming's family's 107 mu of cotton, originally need 13 people, to spend more than two months to pick up, and now only a half day, all collected.

Zhang Le, deputy commander of science and technology, said that the workload of the 800 people is now competent only for one harvester. The cotton produced is not only less impurity, but also greatly reduces the harvest season.

According to Zhang Le, before the cotton picker is promoted, every organ, hospital and school in the Regimental Farm of the regiment should be closed down every time during the cotton picking period. The cadres, primary and middle school students and even medical personnel must pick cotton in the field and seize it. "

Today, nearly 1/3 of the cotton fields in the Alar Reclamation Area are mechanically picked. In the fall season, people do not have to stop classes for picking up cotton.

The cost of picking cotton has also been reduced by using machinery.

According to Zhang Le calculation, the cost of using cotton pickers per kilogram is nearly 0.6 yuan, less than the 1/3 picked manually.

Tarim Basin is one of the most arid regions in the world. The shortage of water resources is the biggest problem that restricts local agricultural production.

While the cotton picker has been extensively promoted, the technology of spraying and drip irrigation under the film has been popularized continuously, so as to promote local cotton production and increase cotton farmers' income.

Today, in the Alar Reclamation Area, people can control the cotton fields remotely by mobile phone through computer intelligent control system. The farmland monitoring information system, which monitors the water and salt in real time, monitors the water and salt indicators, and applies what fertilizer and medicine to fight.

The construction of modern farms represented by information technology has become one of the models of China's agricultural modernization.

It is in view of this potential productivity that Xinjiang continues to increase subsidies and promote the new water-saving technology under mulch drip irrigation.

With the help of the government, this year, Zhao Yongsheng, a large cotton farmer in Korla, changed all 112 acres of cotton fields to drip irrigation under mulch.

This irrigation method changed the traditional "irrigated irrigated land" into "directly irrigating crops" and the yield was more than 30% higher than that of ordinary cotton fields.

Zhao Yongsheng said that before pouring water into cotton, 180 cubic meters of water per mu should be used, and new irrigation methods should be adopted, with less than 100 cubic meters of water per mu.

What is even more inspiring to him is that drip irrigation technology can directly increase production: the low yield field with less than 200 kilograms of seed cotton per mu has now reached an average seed yield of more than 300 kg.

The increase in cotton yield allowed him to withdraw all his investment in that year.

Zhao Yongsheng told reporters that high technology plus good prices will bring the net income to about 100000 yuan this year.

Science and technology help cotton farmers continuously tap the potential of cotton production instead of relying on single enlargement of planting area to increase output, which is conducive to cotton farmers avoiding the risk of excessive market volatility of cotton, and also conducive to changing the present situation of single agricultural planting structure.

All this happened in Tarim cotton region is enough to explain the "myth" of Xinjiang's high yield of cotton.