Xinjiang'S Cotton Output Accounts For A High Proportion Of The Whole Country.

According to relevant reports, cotton production in Xinjiang continued to maintain the highest level in the country in 2019, reaching 5 million 2 thousand tons, although it was 2.1% lower than that in 2018, but the proportion of total output in the country increased by 1.1 percentage points over the same period last year, reaching 84.9%. Xinjiang's total cotton production, yield per unit area, planting area and commodity allocation ranked first in the country for 25 consecutive years.

According to the latest statistics of the National Bureau of statistics, in 2019, the cotton planting area in Xinjiang was 38 million 107 thousand and 500 mu, an increase of 2% compared with 2018, accounting for 76% of the total planting area in the country. Xinjiang cotton (lint) production per unit area is 131 kg / mu, and continues to be higher than the national average yield per unit area, higher than 13.7 kg / mu.

In recent years, whole mechanization has been widely applied in cotton fields in Xinjiang. The Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region agricultural and rural office data show that more than 9 cotton fields in northern Xinjiang have been fully mechanized, and the mechanization rate of cotton harvesting in southern Xinjiang is also increasing year by year. In 2019, the total area of cotton production in the whole region exceeded 11 million 500 thousand mu for the first time, and Xinjiang's position as a national high quality cotton production base was further consolidated.

In 2019, Xinjiang gradually reduced the number of cotton varieties, and promoted the "one main, two subsidiary" seed use pattern in the whole region. The main varieties accounted for more than 73% of the total cotton planting area, and the cotton quality uniformity increased steadily. At the same time, the main cotton producing areas in southern Xinjiang actively promote cotton drip irrigation, water and fertilizer integrated machine cultivation mode, and achieve cotton production cost saving and synergy.

Autonomous Region Agricultural and rural office responsible person said that in recent years, cotton production in Xinjiang has increased the proportion of large-scale planting, planting costs reduced, intensive level of development.