Xinjiang's 7 Million 600 Thousand Mu Cotton Was Picked Up A Week Earlier Than Last Year.

Recently, Xinjiang production and construction corps Farmers in the twenty-nine division of the two division of Agriculture began Picking new cotton Compared with last year, it was about a week ahead of schedule. According to statistics, in 2011, Xinjiang Corps planted 7 million 600 thousand mu of cotton, 130 thousand mu higher than the previous year, and expected to produce 1 million 200 thousand tons of lint. Machine picked cotton The area is expected to reach 3 million 500 thousand mu, accounting for 46% of the total area.

In late August, Xinjiang continued high temperature and sufficient light. Cotton began to mature from south to North and grew well. Local cotton growers rush to seize the opportune moment to start picking new cotton sporadically, and will enter cotton picking stage in early September.

From Sichuan, Gansu, Henan and other places Picking season Workers began to pour into Xinjiang to pick new cotton. According to the Xinjiang labor and Social Security Bureau, due to the expansion of machine picked cotton, in 2011, the Xinjiang Corps planned to introduce 400 thousand workers to pick up flower festivals, a decrease of 100 thousand people compared to 2010, and the guidance price of flower picking was 1.3 yuan per kilogram, an increase of 0.3 yuan over the previous year.

Xinjiang Corps is one of the most important commercial cotton production bases and high quality cotton producing areas in China. The total cotton accounts for about 45% of the whole Xinjiang, which accounts for about 7 million 470 thousand mu of cotton planted in 1/62010 and 1 million 150 thousand tons of lint cotton. Since 1995, cotton yield per unit area, cotton per capita, commodity rate and export rate have been ranked first in the country.