Xinjiang cotton planting area drops, why yield still increases? This is thanks to scientific and technological support and other means to help Xinjiang cotton achieve high-quality development.
Xinjiang enjoys unique natural conditions, such as large temperature difference in summer, abundant sunshine, full photosynthesis and long growth time of cotton. Accordingly, Xinjiang long staple cotton quality reaches the world top class, make it coat, warm, breathable, comfortable, long supply exceeds demand.
As spring is getting warm, the reporter of Science and Technology Daily saw several high-horsepower pilotless tractors carrying out precision sowing at the high-standard cotton planting base in Shounute Village, Yaha Town, Kuqa City. The scene is quite spectacular.
In recent years, Xinjiang has continuously improved the level of modernization, intelligence and information technology in agricultural machinery operations, and introduced high-tech technologies such as unmanned tractors to provide farmers with whole-process mechanized technical services for land preparation, planting, plant protection and harvest. The application of many high and new technologies is boosting the high-quality development of Xinjiang cotton industry.
"With the deepening of the national cotton price reform, the implementation of the rural revitalization strategy, and the application of high-tech technologies such as driverless tractors, we are growing cotton more vigorously." This year, Shounut village villager Kuerban Toshuti contracted 20000 mu of land to grow cotton on the basis of last year, and another 10,000 mu of contract.
Plant protection UAV, packaging cotton picker, residual film recycling machine, intelligent deep plough...... These intelligent machines are favored by more and more cotton farmers in Xinjiang.
Data show that the agricultural mechanization level in Xinjiang has been improving year by year, with the comprehensive mechanization level of cotton reaching more than 80%.
In recent years, Xinjiang cotton mechanized harvesting area with an average annual growth rate of more than one million mu. From 2016 to 2020, cotton harvest increased from 20.71 percent to 69.83 percent.
Cotton is one of the local pillar industries. Xinjiang has been constantly improving the competitiveness of the cotton industry and promoting high-quality development of the industry by means of science and technology.
Last 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-yielding cotton areas.
In order to promote the high-quality development of the cotton industry, the Science and Technology Department of the autonomous region launched the "cotton high-quality, high-yield and high-efficiency standardized production technology integration demonstration project" last year. With an investment of 31 million yuan, this major science and technology project aims at the scientific and technological needs of Xinjiang's high-quality, high-yield and efficient standardized production of cotton and the safe supply of agricultural water resources. It takes Shaya County 500,000 mu of high-efficiency water-saving cotton field as the research object, and aims to "reduce cost, improve quality and increase benefit" to carry out technological innovation and integrated application. Formed in the southern Xinjiang region can be replicated, can be promoted in cotton production of high quality, high yield and high efficiency experience.
"Last year, we unified the varieties according to the pattern of 'one main plant and two auxiliary plants', and the price of 70% of the cotton varieties in our village was also better than in previous years." Aksu City, Karatale town in Ake Aizhi village committee director Mai Hesuti Aimira said.
The pattern of "one main plant and two auxiliary plants" means that Xinjiang promotes cotton planting in counties and cities with one main plant variety and two collocation varieties, and encourages the development of one product in one county or one product in multiple counties according to local conditions, which effectively solves the problem of too many varieties, miscellaneous and disorderly cotton and improves the quality of cotton from the source.
According to reports, this year, Xinjiang will accelerate the promotion of the same ecological region 'one main two auxiliary' pattern, from the source of cotton varieties to solve the problem of confusion; Promote the whole process of mechanization of cotton production in the autonomous region, especially in southern Xinjiang, and strive to achieve a mechanized recovery rate of over 70%, so as to promote the green and high-quality development of cotton production in Xinjiang.
