The Puzzle Of Xinjiang Cotton Industry In The Harvest Season

It's another year's harvest season.

This year,

With a total area of 24 million 700 thousand mu, cotton has reached a record high of over 3 million tons.

At the same time, the cotton area of two other cotton producing areas, the Yellow River and Yangtze River, has shrunk.

Xinjiang's position as China's largest commercial cotton production base is not only unbreakable, but also its share in the cotton industry.

However, when the vast cotton fields have been drumming up the vast cotton growers and supplying the huge downstream industry chain, they are also suffering from the multiple predicament caused by the market storm. In the future, will the "cotton sea" of Xinjiang expand or shrink? In the face of domestic and international competitive pressures, what efforts should Xinjiang make to improve cotton yield and quality? How will Xinjiang cope with the increase of picking costs and the difficulty of pportation? How far can the cotton industry chain of Xinjiang be extended under the downturn of international market demand?

Puzzles, countless experts and cotton farmers are worried about how to solve them.

As one of the most important pillar industries in Xinjiang, the direction of cotton planting in the future is the first topic to be discussed.

In the face of considerable income, cotton farmers are the only least willing to contract their area. Half of their income comes from cotton.

Besides, what kind of crops can be dangerous? Cotton has, and other economic crops such as tomatoes have the same risk or even greater risk. Why do we need to stop at the bottom?

In fact, the characteristics of Xinjiang's agricultural water regime are that it is dry in spring, summer and waterlogging, and less in autumn. Cotton sowing at the end of March and only the first water at the end of June will not be able to find second crops suitable for this characteristic.

Unfortunately, since 2005, the average yield of lint cotton in Xinjiang has been hovering around 110 kilograms for 7 consecutive years.

This year, the average output per unit of lint in Xinjiang is only 101.97 kilograms, which is 7.78 kilograms lower than the actual yield of last year, a decrease of 6.74%.

At this rate of development, cotton production in Xinjiang will remain under heavy pressure.

People are worried.

At this time, Xinjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences broke out a piece of good news: the 50 mu super high yield demonstration field guided by Li Xueyuan, a position scientist of Xinjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, has an average yield of 838.31 kg of seed cotton, breaking the historical record of cotton yield per unit area in China.

That is to say, the level of cotton yield per unit in Xinjiang still has great potential to tap.

However, it needs stronger technical support than before, breaking through two varieties of cotton varieties and cultivation patterns.

But what is entangled is that the increase of cotton area and the high yield and high yield means that the pportation pressure will increase.

Xinjiang is far away from the mainland and can only choose land and air pportation.

It is far greater than sea pportation. This leads to a good market in Xinjiang after more than 80% cotton is pferred annually, but there is no good market.

At the same time, these years, affected by many factors, the cost of planting cotton in Xinjiang has been approaching 1200 yuan per mu and 2000 yuan per mu.

Although people have gradually realized that the best way to solve this problem is the development and application of cotton picker.

However, because of many difficulties, the efficiency of machine picked cotton has not yet been apparent.

Under the plagued by high cost, many large cotton

Enterprises encounter "Waterloo".

At present, there are 76 Textile Enterprises above Designated Size in Xinjiang, but 53 households are in a state of deficit, with a deficit of 68%.

And the industrial chain of cotton only stops at the low profit return of lint and cotton yarn.

Some people think that the biggest challenge of Xinjiang's industrial chain is to do deep and fine production, and to purposefully produce according to consumption demand and develop in deeper fields.

New products of the industry.