High Quality Development Of Cotton Industry In Xinjiang

In November, large machinery was busy working in the white cotton fields in southern Xinjiang. On rural roads, cotton farmers drive trailers to transport the harvested cotton to processing plants.

Xinjiang is a major cotton producing area in China and an important cotton producing area in the world. In 2019, the total cotton output in Xinjiang will reach 5.02 million tons, accounting for 84.9% and 19.4% of the national and global cotton production respectively. As one of the pillar industries, Xinjiang has continuously improved the competitiveness of the cotton industry and promoted the high-quality development of the industry by means of cotton quality supervision, cotton notarization and inspection, and cotton quality subsidies. This year, in order to stabilize the scale of cotton production, Xinjiang continued to optimize the number of cotton varieties, improve the quality of cotton, and layout and develop high-yield cotton areas.

"This year, 70% of the cotton variety in the village is Xinluzhong 40." Maihesuti amigera, director of the yingak Arik village committee in karatale Town, Aksu City, said that this year, the village has unified the varieties according to the "one main and two auxiliary" planting mode, and the cotton price is also better than in previous years.

"One main and two auxiliary" means that Xinjiang should promote cotton planting with one main variety and two matching varieties, and encourage the development of one product in one county and one product in many counties according to local conditions, so as to effectively solve the problems of multiple, miscellaneous and disordered cotton varieties and improve cotton quality from the source.

This year, the cotton production area of Aksu is 398000 mu, accounting for one of the total cotton production bases in Xinjiang. This year, the local government took the optimization of cotton variety structure as the breakthrough point and comprehensively implemented the "one main and two auxiliary" seed use mode.

This year, the cotton planting area of Awati county is more than 1.42 million mu, and the promotion area of "one main and two auxiliary" is 1.35 million mu. In Awati County, China cotton group Awati cotton industrialization Co., Ltd., came to sell cotton in an endless stream. Different from previous years, this year, in addition to testing the clothing score, weighing and billing for cotton farmers, the staff also need to confirm the "one main and two auxiliary" sales table of cotton farmers.

Liu Defu, deputy manager of Awati cotton industrialization company of China cotton group, introduced that the sales table is mainly used to count and check cotton varieties. There are three specified varieties of long staple cotton and fine wool cotton, which can be sold into the factory after confirmation by the staff. "In order to further ensure the quality of cotton, the cotton after entering the factory is managed by single collection, single stacking and single rolling." Liu said.

Wang Feng, chief of planting and aquatic products management section of Aksu agricultural and rural Bureau, introduced that according to the mode of regional recommendation, county (city) selection and farmers' voluntary, 29 cotton varieties were recommended locally, 15 varieties were actually selected, and the actual planting area of recommended varieties was more than 5.18 million mu. "More than 85% of the recommended varieties of" one main and two auxiliary "varieties have been recommended. Most cotton planting villages and towns have realized" one Township, one product ", and the consistency of commercial cotton has been significantly improved." Wang Feng said.

In the eighth regiment and first company of the first division of Xinjiang production and Construction Corps, this year, more than 8000 mu of cotton land has also adopted the "one main and two auxiliary" planting mode. "The main cotton variety is Xinluzhong 82, which was planted last year with good results and will be widely promoted this year." Long Yutao, Secretary of the Party branch of the first company of the eighth regiment, said.

In recent years, the mechanized harvesting area of cotton has increased at an annual rate of more than one million mu. From 2016 to 2019, the mechanized cotton harvesting area in Xinjiang will be increased from 4.8623 million mu to 14.15 million mu, and the level of cotton mechanical harvest will be increased from 20.71% to 53.91%.

"The picking head of the cotton picker accurately butts the cotton row and walks in a straight line, which increases the net picking rate of cotton by 3%." Chen tinggeng, general manager of Tumushuke Kaifeng Agricultural Machinery Co., Ltd., the third division of Xinjiang production and Construction Corps, told reporters that the combination of Beidou navigation system and large-scale cotton picker, the cotton picker only needs to take a trip in the cotton field to plan the route, and can realize 24-hour operation if the weather permits.

This year, 1.14 million mu of cotton was planted in Tumushuke City, the third division of Xinjiang production and Construction Corps, with a machine harvesting rate of more than 93%, and 106 cotton pickers, of which more than 30% are equipped with Beidou navigation system.

Qin Dejiang, deputy director of Tumushuke agricultural and rural Bureau of the third division of XPCC, said that the row spacing was fixed when sowing at the beginning of the year, and the use of Beidou navigation cotton picker could achieve line to line picking and accurate picking, which improved the picking quality and operation efficiency, and was conducive to increasing the income of cotton farmers.

In addition to vigorously promoting advanced, applicable, efficient, intelligent, green and environmental protection agricultural machinery, Xinjiang Agricultural Mechanization Science and technology innovation has also made new progress, more and more enterprises join the ranks of scientific and technological innovation.

Xinjiang Shawan broad agricultural machinery manufacturing Co., Ltd. is a local enterprise that independently develops large-scale agricultural machinery. Zhao Guangjun, general manager of the company, told reporters that the company currently has about 10 patented technologies, and the agricultural machinery produced accounts for about 50% of the market share in Northern Xinjiang.

At the beginning of October, I came to purchase cotton from Aksu area. "We cooperate with local enterprises to take order purchase to ensure the quality of cotton purchased."

Akesu Kerun fine seed cotton industry Co., Ltd., which cooperates with Li Fasan, focuses on breeding and processing of improved varieties. Zhang Xishun, general manager of the company, told reporters that this year, the enterprise has established a cooperative with farmers, with a planting base of more than 100000 mu of cotton. When enterprises purchase cotton, they adopt the form of single harvest, single stack and single rolling, which greatly improves the quality of cotton. "Upstream and downstream multi-party linkage, the development of order type cooperation, cotton sales will be better." Zhang Xishun said.

It is reported that, in accordance with the goal of "improving quality, reducing costs and increasing benefits", Xinjiang continues to optimize the distribution of cotton production, promote the concentration of cotton to 28 high-quality cotton production counties and cities with a planting scale of more than 200000 mu, and continue to promote the high-quality development of the cotton industry.