Xinjiang Sha Wan Farmers Purchase Cotton Pickers By Heat

In 2010, the purchase price of cotton market reached a record high. The high cost of manual labor also worried the cotton farmers.

"During the rush hour of picking cotton, most farmers are worried about finding a flower worker every day, but the farmers who plant cotton pickup are not in a hurry. The machine has been raging and rumbling, and it has been collected in the past. It costs 160 yuan per mu, saving time, labor and money."

Zhang Xinliang said.

Last year, high spending and scarce migrant workers gave birth to Zhang Xinliang's idea of buying cotton pickers.

At present, Zhang Xinliang has paid nearly 384 thousand yuan deposit to the manufacturer.

At present, Shawan County agricultural mechanization operation mechanization, machine sowing 100% to achieve mechanization, harvesting mechanization level is only 45%, resulting in low level of machine harvesting is the root cause of cotton harvest link.

In 2010, the whole county planted 700 thousand mu of cotton, and promoted 16 thousand and 600 mu of machine picked cotton. In the same year, all mechanized harvesting was carried out, with an average yield of 400 yuan per mu.

The six plenary session of the Ten Session of the county Party committee, which has just concluded, focuses on the following aspects: "to promote agricultural technology and support, and vigorously promote the advanced technology of agriculture, such as" three models and one technology ", this year, the total sowing area is 1 million 600 thousand mu (including replanting 100 thousand acres), the 500 thousand mu of machine harvesting cotton has been popularized, and the financial support has been increased. More than 10 or more modern agricultural demonstration zones have been built, and the mechanized harvesting of cotton, chili and tomato has been vigorously promoted. This year plans to purchase 100 cotton pickers, 15 pickling machines, and 500 sets of machine harvested seed sowing machines, and continuously raise the level of agricultural mechanization, and strive to basically realize agricultural modernization in the middle of 12th Five-Year.

Shawan County Agricultural Machinery Bureau through the purchase of agricultural subsidies, fully support the purchase of cotton pickers, and cotton pickers and cotton production enterprises, and signed the agreement of supply intent, the implementation of machinery and equipment.

At present, there are 156 farmers who claim to purchase cotton pickers in Shawan County, of which 80 have paid advance deposit to manufacturers.