At The Beginning Of The New Year, Cotton Production In Xinjiang Has Taken On A New Look

On January 5, General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed that it is necessary to cultivate and strengthen Xinjiang's characteristic and advantageous industries, so as to drive the local people to increase their income and become rich. Xinjiang has continuously improved the level of mechanized cotton production and the coverage rate of fine varieties, and promoted the steady improvement of the comprehensive level of cotton production.

Recently, Zhang Xueli, President of Leyuan cooperative in letuyi Town, Manas County, Xinjiang, convened all members to analyze and study the cotton varieties planted in 2021. Last year, more than 8000 mu of cotton planted by the cooperative was mechanized in the whole process, with an average yield of 430 kg per mu. Zhang Xueli said that the whole process of mechanization has greatly reduced the cost. The cost of large-scale cotton pickers for picking cotton per mu is only 150 yuan, which is quite considerable. Therefore, we can say that the harvest of our farmers and the increase of farmers' income all depend on this mechanization.

In 2020, Manas County, as the main cotton production area of Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture in Xinjiang, actively promotes centralized planting, widely promotes machine picking cotton planting mode and new agricultural technologies such as high-efficiency water-saving, precision sowing, UAV plant protection, etc. in 2020, a total of 830000 mu of cotton will be planted, and the cotton machine picking rate of the whole county will reach 100%. Xu Ping, Secretary of the Party group of Manas County agricultural and rural Bureau, said, "we will make full use of the resources in the northern cotton area, develop a good breeding base of 10000 mu of cotton seeds and 100000 mu of high-quality cotton base, increase the proportion of medium and high-end lint in Manas County, and inject new vitality into the high-quality development of the cotton industry.

Thanks to intensive and large-scale planting, the mechanized harvesting area of cotton in Xinjiang has increased at an annual rate of more than one million mu in recent years. In 2020, the total yield, unit yield, planting area and commodity allocation of cotton ranked first in China for 26 consecutive years.

While the total yield and yield per unit area of cotton increased steadily, Xinjiang also relied on the strength of Cotton Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Xinjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences and other scientific research institutes to actively cultivate and promote high-yield cotton varieties suitable for mechanized harvesting. At the end of 2020, the cotton cultivation research team of economic crop Research Institute of Xinjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences organized experts to investigate the high-yield points of 150 mu new long staple cotton varieties in the local area at the high-yield establishment and machine harvesting site observation meeting of new machine harvested long staple cotton varieties held by Xinjiang Aksu Jinxiang farm. The average yield of seed cotton per mu reached 522.87 kg, and the quality of cotton was significantly improved. Cui Jianping, a researcher at the economic crop Research Institute of Xinjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, said that after the mechanical harvesting of long staple cotton varieties, the pollution of three filaments and foreign fibers caused by manual harvesting can be completely avoided, which has a very large role in promoting the textile industry to use non three silk raw cotton to spin high-end textiles.

Li Jing, chief agronomist of the agricultural and rural Department of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, told reporters that in the next step, the region will combine the construction of high standard cotton fields and million mu of cotton seed production base, and make every effort to build a national high-quality commodity cotton production base. Li Jing said that we should speed up the promotion of "one main and two auxiliary" seed use mode in the same ecological region to solve the problem of numerous and miscellaneous cotton varieties at the source; promote the whole process of mechanization of cotton production in the whole region, especially in southern Xinjiang, and strive to achieve a mechanized recovery rate of more than 70% in the new year; and study and explore the subsidy mechanism for cotton production benefits, so as to promote the green and high-quality development of cotton production. ?