The work of spraying defoliants on 1.82 million acres of cotton in Wusu City is in full swing
At present, 1.82 million acres of cotton in Wusu City are entering a critical period for spraying defoliants. While doing a good job in epidemic prevention and control, various towns and villages are organizing cotton farmers to use plant protection drones to defoliate cotton in an orderly manner. The pesticide spraying operation not only makes traditional farm work easier, but also greatly saves water resources and pesticide usage, becoming a “good helper” for farmers to increase production and income.
On September 17, Zhang Chengjiang, a villager in Weihu Village, Chepaizi Town, seized the fine weather and organized personnel to transport plant protection drones to spray defoliants on more than 200 acres of cotton fields. In previous years, Zhang Chengjiang used tractors to spray pesticides, which would cause loss of cotton bolls and affect output. This year, with abundant water and fertilizer, good field management, and the help of plant protection drones, he is full of confidence in a bumper cotton harvest.
Zhang Chengjiang said: “In accordance with the instructions of the technician, we are going to spray 30 grams of defoliant and 100 grams of ethephon per acre in two sprays. After spraying the defoliant, the cotton photosynthesizes well and can promote early maturity. Production will also increase.”
It is understood that the plant protection drone can operate according to the planned flight path, and can spray more than 10 acres of land in just tens of minutes, allowing the atomized liquid particles to evenly adhere to the surface of the plant and the back of the leaves. Achieving precise spraying effect, it can save more than 30% of defoliant per mu of cotton field compared with traditional plant protection machinery. Compared with the locomotive spraying operation method, it is more efficient and intelligent, precise and efficient.
Plant protection drone operator Wang Yajuan said: “Every year in early September, we spray defoliants on cotton farmers. The advantages of plant protection drones are that they do not crush cotton, are low-cost, high-efficiency, fast, and the weather is normal Under normal circumstances, an average of 700 acres of land spraying operations can be completed every day, which is much more efficient than the spraying of pesticides by locomotives in previous years.”
In order to ensure both epidemic prevention and control and agricultural production, the “two committees” and village-based working teams of Weihu Village, Chepaizi Town actively coordinated drones and defoliants, and organized technical personnel to guide spraying operations to ensure Increase agricultural efficiency and farmers’ income.
Xu Wenjun, Party branch secretary of Weihu Village, Chepaizi Town, said: “Weihu Village planted more than 12,300 acres of cotton this year. Our village’s two committees and work teams actively coordinated 6 drones and deployed more than 350 kilograms of defoliated leaves. We will use pesticides to ensure villagers are equipped with plant protection chemicals and farm tools, and go all out to ensure a bumper cotton harvest this year.”
Xu Jinhua, the first secretary of Weihu Village, Zhuchepaizi Town, Wusu Forestry and Grassland Bureau and the leader of the work team, said: “While our work team is doing a good job of ‘helping and guiding’, it also coordinates epidemic prevention and control and agriculture. Production work is done correctly. Under the guidance of town technicians, we assist farmers to choose different types of drones and different varieties of defoliants according to the different varieties they plant, and guide farmers to actively spray, so that cotton can bloom as early as possible, helping Farmers increase production and income.”
In recent years, Wusu City has continuously improved the level of agricultural modernization and achieved agricultural scale, planting mechanization, and management intensification. This year, a total of 1.82 million acres of cotton have been planted in Wusu City. According to the agricultural department’s production measurement, the average seed cotton yield per mu is expected to reach 375 kilograms, and the mechanical cotton picking rate reaches more than 99%.
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