Cotton Growers In Susong, Anhui Have Greatly Increased Their Income, Planting Cotton Area Is Expected To Increase By 10%, And The Highest Yield Per Unit Area Is Nearly 1000 Jin.

In the spring of March, the temperature rose and the spring sowing soon.

After investigating the farmers, the cotton planting area in Susong County of Anhui province is expected to stop falling in 2019, which will increase slightly compared with 2018.

According to Liu Xiaoming, director and senior agronomist of Susong Fuxing agricultural technology station, although the seed cotton sale price was 3.10-3.20 yuan / Jin last year, the cotton seed yield per unit area in the cotton growing area along the Yangtze River generally exceeded 600 Jin, the highest nearly 1000 Jin, and cotton grower income increased substantially compared with 2017.

In addition, the cotton "insurance + futures" financial combination innovative poverty alleviation model in Susong has made the insured cotton farmers receive a compensation of 127 yuan per mu, so that the benefit of cotton planting is much higher than that of other cash crops such as soybeans.

As a result, the enthusiasm of cotton farmers and ordinary farmers to grow cotton is very high this year. The cotton planting area is expected to increase by 8-10% over last year.

It is understood that Zhu Xianming is a large cotton farmer in Susong county. Recently, he has made good use of the fine weather to arrange the nursery bed of the nutrition bowl.

He said that this year he plans to increase the cotton planting area from 60 acres last year to 100 acres.