Why Does Xinjiang'S Machine Picked Cotton Become Hand Picked Cotton?

In 2011, a large number of cotton producing areas in Xinjiang began to popularize cotton harvester extensively. Only 500 thousand acres of cotton harvester were planted in Shawan of Cotton County, accounting for 50% of the cotton planting area in the county. Under the encouragement of the national agricultural subsidy policy, the county farmers bought nearly 100 cotton pickers.

When cotton was mature, machine picked cotton became handpicked cotton, and cotton pickers purchased by farmers for hundreds of thousands of dollars did not come in handy.

It is understood that in addition to Shawan County, some northern Xinjiang

Grassroots cadres: machine picked cotton is a systematic project, which will affect the problem of any link.

Shawan County cotton main production area four Road Town, this year planter cotton picking 120 thousand mu, accounting for nearly 90% of the total cotton sowing area, but the actual machine area is less than 10%.

Mayor Wang Guanghui analyzed that machine picked cotton is not only mechanical picking, but a systematic high yield and high efficiency project of cotton, including many links such as variety, planting, management and harvesting.

Because this year is the first year of large area planting machine picking cotton, cotton farmers have not yet extricate themselves from the traditional planting habits, and some technical measures have not been put into place, which can not be widely mechanically harvested. Wang Guanghui believes that as long as the technical measures for mechanically harvesting cotton are put into place, there is no problem in fully realizing mechanical picking.

Some grass-roots cadres in cotton areas also talked about the type and quality of cotton pickers, which also affected the popularization of machine picked cotton.

At present, most of the cotton growing areas in the northern Xinjiang are made of cotton pickers produced by Shihezi Guihang Agricultural Machinery Equipment Co., Ltd., because the current machine picking cotton planting mode is one film and six rows, while the domestic cotton picker only has 5 cotton picking heads, and one line is obviously not picked up.

In addition, compared with imported cotton pickers of millions of yuan, cotton harvester is faster than artificial harvester, but the harvester is still not cleaned manually. The remaining cotton has to rely on labor. Because of the factors such as cost increase and so on, many cotton farmers do not need manual labor. This undoubtedly causes waste and reduces cotton production.

The reporter learned from the county agricultural machinery bureau that the machine picked cotton was made of early maturing varieties and required higher seeding time. Compared with the regiment regiment, the sowing time of local cotton was generally in May, which was more than half a month later than the surrounding farms, which affected the mechanical picking to a certain extent.

Song Hongfei, director of the Agriculture Bureau of the county, thinks that the advantages of machine picked cotton are obvious compared with the traditional cotton. First, the effect of increasing production is obvious. Because of the difference of varieties, planting and management modes, at least 30 kilograms to 50 kilograms per mu is higher than ordinary cotton. Even if the price is 8 yuan per kilogram this year, it can increase 300 yuan to 400 yuan per mu.

Second, the cost is greatly reduced.

The experience of the Corps proves that the average cost per mu can be reduced by around 450 yuan, which is close to a thousand yuan, which is of great significance to the increase of farmers' income in the big cotton county. This year is the first year to popularize cotton harvester extensively. Although some technical measures are not in place and the latter management has not kept up, the high yield mode will eventually benefit farmers.

Head of cotton processing plant: let cotton processing enterprises take part in the plan of popularizing cotton harvester.

In the interview, the reporter learned that, due to the different picking methods, the cotton processing plant needs to be technically modified by the cotton processing plant for picking and processing cotton. A medium-sized cotton processing plant only needs to invest nearly ten million yuan. This is indeed a great investment for a small cotton processing plant. Many cotton processing factories have to give up the technological pformation because they can not afford the cost of the technological pformation.

Hong Wah, chairman of the cotton processing plant in Jin Gou he Town, Li Shuhua, said that due to the uneven maturity of cotton and the large amount of impurities and moisture, the original processing equipment is obviously not feasible, and technical pformation is needed.

For a company of his size, it will cost at least 7 million yuan to 8 million yuan, which is indeed a great expense.

We have no technological pformation this year. Lack of funds is an important reason.

But machine harvested cotton is the development direction after all. Next year, enterprises will definitely invest in technical pformation.

The hawk cotton processing plant, which has an annual capacity of 30 thousand tons, is a large processing plant. For the acquisition of machine picked cotton, this year the company invested 13 million yuan in technical pformation, but the actual purchase amount is only a few thousand tons.

And most of them came from the surrounding farms.

Hu Hongwei, chairman of the board of directors, said that although the enterprises had made technological pformation, this year was mainly experimental. Not all cotton collected by machine was collected. The impurities and moisture content were too high for us. We were afraid that the quality of the processed cotton was not good enough to sell.

In addition, at present, the state has not set up a standard for the acquisition of machine picked cotton, which has led some upstream enterprises to refuse to purchase machine picked cotton.

The reporter learned from the county agricultural machinery bureau that at present, there are nearly 40 cotton processing plants in the county, but less than 20% of the technical pformation is carried out. Among these factors, there are other factors. One of the important reasons is that most cotton processing plants have not participated in the promotion of cotton harvester in the county.

Interviewed by the four river town, the reporter met the head of the cotton picker professional cooperative and the cotton processing factory to discuss the cotton picking next year.

Co operative director Bai Jiu Hui believes that in the past, the machine picked cotton was mainly planted and managed. In fact, it involves all aspects of agricultural machinery, agricultural materials, technical services, meteorology and acquisition. Any link will be affected. Next year, the cooperative is ready to absorb cotton processing plants, County Agricultural machinery, agricultural materials and other departments together to work out the standard of machine harvested cotton planting, management and machine production.

Hu Hongwei, chairman of the hawk cotton processing plant, said that the cotton processing enterprises should take part in the formulation of the plan for popularizing the machine picked cotton. The reasonable opinions of the enterprises were adopted, and the interests could be maintained. Next year, large scale purchase of machine picked cotton could be made.

Cotton growers: we hope that the cotton processing plant will purchase the machine picked cotton, and the price should not be too low.

For the vast number of cotton farmers, there are many reasons for not realizing large scale production this year.

There are two aspects to be summed up: first, the purchase price of machine picked cotton is far lower than that of manual picking, and the acquisition standard of machine picked cotton is also very strict. Two, compared with last year, the machine picked cotton mode has greatly increased the yield per unit area. Even if the labor cost increase factor is considered, manual picking is also more cost-effective than machine acquisition.

In a cotton processing plant in the four river town, the reporter saw many large and small cars full of cotton. The cotton processing plant responsible person said that those cotton leaves with more impurities and more impurities were machine picked cotton.

Bai Jiucheng, a big cotton farmer in the new village of four river town, told reporters that he planted more than 600 acres of cotton this year. 60% of them were machine picked cotton, and the yield reached more than 300 kilograms, an increase of nearly seventy or eighty kg compared with the same period last year.

Speaking of why cotton pickers are not used this year, Lao Bai believes that the price of cotton picked up by machine is too low, and the purchase price per kilogram is 2 yuan lower than that of manual picking. In addition, some cotton processing factories have too high quality requirements for machine picked cotton, and the proportion of water and impurities is up to 12% and 5%, which is not even 5 yuan per kilogram. Two is that although labor costs have increased this year, because of the large area of machinery picking cotton gathered in the nearby farms this year, picking up florist is not nervous. Although the labor cost has gone up a lot, it has increased a lot more than last year.

Chen Jinbao, a villager of Song Sheng Gong Village in Jin Gou he Town, planted 58 mu of cotton this year, less than half of the machine picked cotton, but the yield per mu reached more than 400 kilograms, an increase of 50% over that of ordinary cotton. He planted dozens of years of cotton and such a high yield was the first time he met.

Lao Chen said that compared with ordinary cotton, machine harvested cotton implements uniform planting mode including variety, sowing, management, picking and acquisition, and the effect is different.

Take pesticide, for example, in the past, Haruki had more than 2500 mu of cotton. There is no one in your home today. There will be no one in his home tomorrow. He will be in a house for half a month. The worm will fly away from your home to his home farm. It will not be destroyed, and it will be finished in two days.

Lao Chen said that next year, 58 mu of cotton should be harvested by machine, but we hope that the cotton processing plant in the town can purchase machine picked cotton, and the price should not be too low.

Although this year's overall efficiency of machine harvested cotton has not reached the expected goal, the reporter has learned that next year the county's cotton planting area will not be lower than this year. The relevant departments in the county and the towns in the cotton region are summarizing their experiences and formulating corresponding measures, believing that the cotton production mode of machine picked cotton will surely benefit the vast number of cotton farmers.