A Cotton Picker Can Pick Up 6 Mu In 1 Hours.

28, reporters learned from the provincial cotton Department, Hunan cotton production mechanization to achieve a key breakthrough, of which the most difficult to solve, the most time-consuming "picking cotton" process, will be replaced by machine scale operation for thousands of years of artificial hand picking.

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In the cotton mature season, the cotton saving Department chose Huarong county.

A cotton field in Sha Kou village held the on-site mechanization of cotton production (mechanized flower collecting), and the cotton harvest for the first time came to the machine operation in our province.

The reporter saw a large traction cotton picker running back and forth, where almost all cotton bolls were picked at one time.

The manipulator introduces that 6 cotton fields can be picked in one hour with this cotton picker.

Liu Jinhua, a cotton grower who was wearing flowers in a nearby cotton field, told reporters that it was at least 4 days in an acre of cotton field.

Hunan is an important cotton producing area in the country. The cotton planting area is 2 million 800 thousand mu this year.

Li Yi, director of the provincial cotton branch, said that the degree of mechanization of cotton production in our province is not high, especially picking links. In recent years, labor costs have been soaring again and again, and cotton growers have few cotton planting benefits. The cotton production situation is facing serious challenges.

According to the experience of cotton picking in foreign countries and Xinjiang area, the provincial cotton Department has repeatedly studied and decided to make crops adapt to machinery and promote mechanical cotton picking. The former hybrid cotton is changed to "short and dense" conventional cotton, which is easy for mechanical picking;

Three key problems of post harvest direct seeding and cotton boll mildew prevention and rot prevention are discussed.

Experts said that at present, these technologies have basically matured and the combination of Agronomy and agricultural machinery has made it possible to achieve full mechanization of cotton production in the future.