6.44 million acres of cotton are busy being harvested in Kashgar, Xinjiang
“Mechanized planting, drone spraying, and cotton picking machines integrated harvesting and packaging not only improve planting efficiency, but also save production costs.” Li Jinhui, a cotton grower in Qiongkulchak Township, Bachu County sighed. This year, 6.44 million acres of cotton are planted in Kashgar, of which 3.704 million acres of cotton are planted. With the help of mechanization, it not only reduces the labor intensity of cotton farmers and increases the net harvest rate, but also increases cotton output and farmers’ income.
In recent years, while continuously optimizing the structure of cotton varieties, the Kashgar region has also continuously accelerated the promotion and application of advanced agricultural technologies to promote the modernization, intelligentization and informatization level of cotton production. The level of mechanization continues to deepen. In particular, the “machine-picked cotton” planting model with fast progress and low cost not only liberates the labor force, but also allows many cotton farmers to see a new way to increase their income and become rich.
Li Jinhui is a cotton farmer in Qikeqike Village, Qiongkulchak Township, Bachu County. This year, she planted 740 acres of cotton. Under the guidance of agricultural technicians, she used modern equipment to plant scientifically. After a year of hard work, her family The cotton stalks planted are thick and strong, the bolls are well-proportioned and plump, and their growth is obviously better than in previous years.
It is now the cotton harvesting period, and cotton farmers in the Kashgar area are seizing the opportunity to pick new cotton, and the fields are full of busy harvest scenes. On November 3, the reporter came to the cotton field in Qikeqike Village, Qiongkulchak Township, Bachu County. Large cotton picking machines were harvesting and removing miscellaneous materials. Snow-white cotton fell into the carriage one after another and was picked up. They are packed into large cotton “eggs” and “dropped” into the fields, waiting to be loaded onto the truck and transported away.
In the farmland of Jierandun Village, Yangtak Township, Maigaiti County, with the roar of cotton pickers, white cotton is picked. Every half hour or so, the cotton pickers “spit out” “A large bundled cotton ball weighing about 1.4 to 1.7 tons. Cotton grower Abdulsalamu Abdulrehiti said happily: “My family’s 100 acres of cotton were harvested in one night. In the past, picking cotton with my parents was time-consuming and laborious. Now all cotton is picked by machine, not only It is efficient and quality is also very good. Next year we plan to expand the cotton planting area, take advantage of the rapid development of science and technology, and increase family income.”
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