Technology Boosts &Nbsp; The World's Largest Cotton Base Takes Off.

　　 In November, as the Tarim cotton region of Xinjiang entered the peak picking stage of cotton, cotton pickers in all parts of the country went to battle. The picture shows the three regiment of the first agricultural division of Tarim Basin.

In the early winter season, the North was already cold and snowy. But the Tarim Basin in Xinjiang is still sunny, with willow leaves hanging down. Far from the top of the Tianshan Mountains and Kunlun Mountains, the snow is shining brightly. In the Tarim Basin, Populus euphratica is red, red willow yellow, cotton white.

In the early November, reporters and his colleagues drove into the world's largest cotton producing area - Tarim Basin, Xinjiang.

Bending down to pick up cotton is a labor scene that Chinese farmers have followed for thousands of years. Today, the history of artificial cotton picking is rewriting in the Tarim Basin, the largest cotton producing area in the world. With the cotton picking machine boomed to the field, the long harvest period spanning two seasons across the autumn and winter began to shorten.

In the Alar Reclamation Area along the Tarim River, ten thousand hectares of cotton fields are white. Picking yard The scene has ceased to exist. With the cotton picking machine rumbling in and moving back and forth, cotton is constantly involved in the belly of the cotton picker. 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, it takes more than two months to pick it up. Now it only takes a long time to finish harvesting. Zhang Le, deputy vice-president of science and technology, said: "the workload of the 800 people can only be done by only one harvester. The cotton produced is not only less impurity, but also greatly reduces the original long harvest season.

According to Zhang Le recalls, before the cotton picker was popularized in 2004, the organs, hospitals and schools of the regiment of the first agricultural division of the regiment were suspended from work, and all the cadres and primary and middle school students, even the medical staff, had to pick cotton in the field and grab the harvest season before the old man changed his face.

According to the workload of a normal labor force picking 60 kilograms of cotton per day, every flower picking worker needs to bend over at least ten thousand times a day, which is a great destruction to their body. In the Tarim Basin, many farmers and corps of agricultural workers picking cotton annually suffer from lumbar muscle strain and lumbar disc herniation.

Due to the extensive population in Xinjiang, the rural labor force is relatively scarce. Cotton planting The expansion of the area and the growth of total production demand a large number of migrant workers in the cotton harvest season every year, up to about 600000 people. The large scale promotion of cotton pickers not only liberated labor force, but also greatly reduced production costs, which saved cotton farmers time and effort.

Today, nearly of the cotton fields in the Alar Reclamation Area are mechanically picked. Since Xinjiang carried out a useful attempt to mechanically pick up large areas of cotton, the implementation of mechanized cotton picking has not only achieved the goal of increasing the efficiency of farms and increasing the income of workers, but also fundamentally changed the situation of picking up cotton during the season of picking up flowers, stopping offices in urban areas, closing factories, closing shops, and closing classes in primary and secondary schools. More importantly, using this machine not only reduces the heavy labor of picking cotton, but also reduces the cost of artificial cotton picking. According to Zhang Le calculation, the cost of picking cotton by machine is less than 0.6 yuan per kilogram, less than the 1/3 picked by man. {page_break}

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. Nowadays, when the cotton picker is widely popularized, the spread of the aircraft and the dropper under the membrane can make the grafting of high technology and irrigation mode possible, and constantly promote the local cotton production and cotton farmers' income increase.

Now, in the Alar Reclamation Area, people can control the cotton fields remotely by mobile phone through the computer intelligent control system through thousands of miles away. The farmland monitoring information system, which monitors day and night, monitors the water and salt indicators in real time, what fertilizer to use, and what medicines to fight. The construction of modern farms represented by information technology has become one of the models of China's agricultural modernization.

It is precisely this production potential that has been observed. Xinjiang has continuously increased subsidies, making the farmers only need to spend 230 yuan at the cost of 630 yuan per mu, thus mobilizing the enthusiasm of farmers to use drip irrigation technology. 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 plastic film". 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: "the first year of water-saving facilities is the largest investment, and only a small amount of investment is needed to buy drip irrigation every year."

Zhao Yongsheng said that before watering the cotton, 180 cubic meters of water per mu would be needed, and the new irrigation method would require less than 100 cubic meters of water per mu. What makes him more exhilarated is that drip irrigation technology can directly increase production: the low yield field with less than two hundred kg 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. "High tech plus good price, this year's net income can reach about 100000 yuan."

It happened in Xinjiang tower. Kapok District All this is enough to explain the myth of Xinjiang's high yield of cotton. Over the years, Xinjiang has taken the lead in promoting a number of key technologies such as plastic film planting, high-density cultivation and drip irrigation under membrane. With the promotion of cotton pickers, Xinjiang has been sitting on the top of the total cotton production and production in the whole country for many years. Cotton production accounts for 1/9 of the world. 1/3 of the national output has gradually brought the largest cotton producing area in Xinjiang, the Tarim Basin, to the throne of the world's largest cotton production base.