A Serious Shortage Of Flower Workers In Sha Ya County, Xinjiang, &Nbsp; Cotton Farmers Worry

Right now, there's cotton again. Pick The season, however, in Akesu, Xinjiang Sha Ya county Cotton fields with large white flowers are not picked up in time because of lack of manpower. The shortage of flower workers has become a problem for cotton growers. Worries at heart 。

Gao Xingzhong, a farmer in the town of the town of the county of Sha Yi, told reporters: "in the past, there were more people in the mainland and Hotan areas. I don't know what's going on this year. People who come are especially few. It's very urgent to see that cotton is not picked in the ground."

Similarly, Wang Yongxiu, a cotton grower with 130 purposes, was very anxious. She waited at the reception point for 4 days, but she did not receive a person.

Reporters in the Sha Ya county flower picking work place to see, compared with the previous years of the crowd, in recent years, people who pick flowers. Sudden decrease Quite a few, insufficient manpower, to a certain extent, led to picking up the price of flowers. Upward trend "
　
Zhang Yindou, a ranch farmer in Sha Ya county, said: "now I ask, there are two pieces of three, two yuan two, and two yuan, nine yuan, but even if so much money, there is no way to pick up florist."

During the interview, the reporter learned that some of the mainland gardener mistaken the social instability in Xinjiang, the security was not guaranteed, and they did not want to pick up flowers in Xinjiang. This resulted in a reduction in the number of troops picking up flowers in the mainland and the shortage of flower workers in the cotton producing areas of Akesu.

Tail, a staff member of the personnel and labor security bureau of Sha Ya county, told reporters: "a total of five or six hundred people came here. The five or six hundred people came to us, that is, to register, register their whereabouts, and to divide them into villages, to which group, we need sixty thousand or seventy thousand people to pick up flowers in one year, and now the gap is still great."

It is understood that Sha Ya county is the main producing area of cotton in Xinjiang, and also the high quality cotton producing area in the whole country. This year a total of 850 thousand mu of cotton is planted.