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Picking Up Cotton Pickers In Sha Wan, Xinjiang

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Cotton Market Cotton Machine

In 2010,

棉花市場收購價創(chuàng)歷史新高，高額的人工拾花費也讓棉農(nóng)憂心，同時催生了農(nóng)民購買采棉機的熱潮。

Xinjiang

Zhang Xinliang of East Gobi village of Jingou River town in Shawan County planted more than 80 mu of cotton in 2010.

When picking cotton, he found 12 workers who had to eat and control, and to pay workers 1.7 yuan per kilogram.

"During the rush hour of picking cotton, most farmers are worried about finding a flower worker every day, but the farmers who plant cotton picking are not in a hurry. The machine rumble is over, and it costs 160 yuan per mu, saving time and effort and saving money."

Zhang Xinliang said.

The high cost of picking up and the shortage of pickers 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 county planted 700 thousand mu of cotton and promoted 16 thousand and 600 mu of machine harvested cotton. In the same year, all mechanized harvesting was carried out, with an average yield of about 400 yuan per mu.

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, Shawan County has declared 156 farmers to purchase cotton pickers, of which 80 have paid deposits to manufacturers.

Shawan County government explicitly pointed out that in 2011 to enhance agricultural technology support as the focus, vigorously promote the "three modules, one technology" and other advanced agricultural practical technology.

The annual planting area is 1 million 600 thousand mu (including 100 thousand mu for replanting), 500 thousand mu of machine harvested cotton is promoted, and the mechanized harvesting of cotton, chili and tomato is vigorously promoted. This year, we plan to purchase 100 cotton pickers and 500 cotton pickers, and continuously raise the level of agricultural mechanization, and strive to basically realize agricultural modernization in the middle of 12th Five-Year.