Xinjiang Production And Construction Corps Cotton Production Increased 8.7% Compared With Last Year.

In 2011, Xinjiang production and construction corps cotton growers were driven by the high yield of cotton last year and the national temporary.

A few days ago, the Xinjiang development and Reform Commission forwarded the eight ministries and commissions issued by the national development and Reform Commission to make good preparations for the 2011 year.

As of November 26th, the cotton picking work of the regiment was over. The 371 thousand and 800 corps of flower pickers had all returned home safely, picking up 3 million 175 thousand and 100 tons of seed cotton, paying 2 billion 227 million yuan for collecting flowers, and 5990 yuan for flower picking workers, an increase of 29% over the 4660 yuan per person in 2010.

The average price of picking flowers is 1.8 yuan per kilogram, and the highest income of flower workers is 17 thousand and 600 yuan.

The shortage of pick up workers has been troubling the continuous and healthy development of the cotton industry in the past few years.

In order to cope with the problem of picking up flowers, corps has been developing cotton machinery harvesting in recent years.

This year, the actual cotton planting area of the Corps is 7 million 600 thousand mu, of which the machine picked cotton area reaches 3 million 500 thousand mu, accounting for 46% of the cotton planting area of the Corps.