Local Hot Spot: Harvest Of 2.259 Million Mu Cotton In Changji Prefecture

Autumn and September, the harvest season. At present, 2.259 million mu of cotton in Changji Prefecture has begun to be harvested. Cotton farmers seize the sunny weather and use machinery to pick new cotton to ensure that the flocs return to the warehouse.

On September 29, in wenjiazhuang village, letuyi Town, Manas County, under the blue sky, soft and full flowers fall on the branches, like clouds floating in the field. A large-scale cotton picker shuttles back and forth in the cotton field, and lines of white cotton are fully harvested in the cabin. The "birth" of cotton bags is a scene of bumper harvest in the field.

Looking at the neat arrangement of cotton bags, cotton farmer Ma Tao's face is blooming with laughter. "Looking at the growth of cotton, cotton boll opening rate has reached more than 80%, and it is estimated that the yield of cotton field can reach 450 kg. This year is another bumper year," he said

Ma Tao, a resident of Manas County, transferred 40000 mu of land in letuyi Town, and realized mechanization of cotton planting and harvesting. He said that 40000 mu of cotton can be harvested in one month, saving time, labor and high efficiency.

Cotton is the leading and pillar industry in Changji Prefecture, which plays an important role in the economic crops of Changji Prefecture. In recent years, the cotton picking machinery in Changji Prefecture has been developed from the ordinary box type cotton picker to the cotton harvesting and packing machine. The whole process of planting, management and harvesting of cotton has been mechanized, and the average water yield of cotton cultivation, sowing and harvesting has reached 100%.

This year, in accordance with the development layout of "stabilizing grain, optimizing cotton and developing characteristics", Changji Prefecture planted 2.259 million mu of cotton, an increase of 149000 Mu compared with the previous year, and the mechanized harvesting time was nearly half of that of traditional manual harvesting. At present, all 523 cotton pickers in Changji Prefecture have been overhauled, debugged and maintained, and pre job training has been conducted for drivers to ensure that they can be put into mechanized cotton harvesting in autumn with good technical conditions.

In order to ensure the orderly development of cotton harvesting, the state agricultural and rural Bureau has made overall efforts to control epidemic situation and agricultural production, set up agricultural production service guarantee group, regularly carry out on-site guidance and video scheduling for agricultural production in various counties and cities, carry out training and machine repair of agricultural machinery in advance, and strictly grasp cotton picking operation and seed cotton landing management County level agricultural and rural departments service consultation telephone, coordinate to solve the problems and difficulties in the process of agricultural production during the epidemic period, so as to achieve stable yield and supply and quality improvement of cotton.

At the same time, the agricultural and rural departments at all levels in Changji Prefecture conscientiously implemented the subsidy policy for purchasing agricultural machinery, and included cotton harvesting machinery into the scope of subsidy for key machinery and tools, so as to make full use of subsidies to ensure that subsidized machines and tools play a role in cotton production in autumn. Up to now, 28 large cotton pickers have been purchased in Quanzhou, enjoying 12.38 million yuan of national agricultural machinery purchase subsidy; 15 cotton baling machines were newly added, of which 7 were entitled to the national agricultural machinery purchase subsidy of 350000 yuan, so as to further reduce the seed cotton impurity rate and improve the cotton quality.

Wu Gengming, director of the state agricultural machinery promotion station, said that since September, agricultural and rural departments at all levels in Changji Prefecture have worked out the balance accounts of machinery and land, guided and urged Agricultural Machinery Cooperatives, agricultural machinery households, planting cooperatives and growers to sign machine harvesting contracts in time, reasonably allocate cotton harvesting machinery, and clearly require priority to complete harvesting work in the jurisdiction, Make sure the cotton is ripe and harvested.

In addition, the agricultural and rural departments at all levels in the prefecture, in combination with the characteristics of agricultural mechanization production in autumn and the requirements of safe production, comprehensively implement the responsibility system for safe production, strengthen the inspection of safety production, eliminate the hidden dangers of agricultural machinery accidents, and require the cotton harvesting machinery entering the site to strictly implement fire prevention measures and safety operation procedures, and put an end to fire and other major accidents, Promote cotton picking operation to carry out quickly, efficiently and safely.

It is reported that this year, Changji Prefecture will further optimize the cotton variety structure and production and management system, and form Manas County, Hutubi County, Changji City and Fukang City as key county planting areas for high-quality cotton. It is expected that the harvest peak will enter in the first ten days of October, and the harvest work will be completed from the last ten days of October to the first ten days of November.

(source: Changji daily)