China News Service, Kashgar, Xinjiang, October 6th (Reziwangu) At present, Xinjiang, China's main cotton producing area, has a good cotton harvest.
In Bachu County, Kashgar Prefecture, Xinjiang, with the roar of machinery, cotton pickers shuttled back and forth in the cotton fields for mechanized harvesting.
The local cotton farmer Abdul Kader Memati said: "Nowadays, it is harvested by large-scale cotton pickers, which is much more efficient."
Abdul Kadir Memeti is a villager in Yaolewasquatan Village, Selibuya Town, Bachu County. He told reporters: "I planted 100 mu of cotton last year. It took about 40 days to pick it by hand. Time. This year, these cotton fields are picked by cotton pickers and can be harvested in two days. In contrast, mechanized picking saves time, money, and results."
Bachu County in southern Xinjiang has planted more than 1.02 million mu of cotton this year, of which the machine-harvested cotton area is expected to exceed 320,000 mu.
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In order to cooperate with the cotton harvesting machine, Abdul Kader Maimaidi defoliated the cotton two weeks in advance to avoid mixing of cotton leaves during machine harvesting and affecting cotton quality.
The reporter learned that Bachu County has applied advanced agricultural technology plant protection drones on a large scale.
The way cotton farmers work with tractors no longer exists, instead drones spray defoliants on cotton fields.
According to the Statistics Bureau of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, the cotton sown area in Xinjiang in 2020 will exceed 37.61 million mu, of which more than 16 million mu will be in the southern Xinjiang cotton area.
The reporter was informed that Bachu County in southern Xinjiang has planted more than 1.02 million mu of cotton this year, of which the machine-picked cotton area is expected to exceed 320,000 mu.
At present, Bachu County has invested more than 60 cotton pickers for large-scale picking.
In recent years, Bachu County has realized the mechanization of cotton production through the construction of high-standard farmland and the promotion of the mechanized cotton harvesting model to promote the continuous increase of cotton farmers' income and the healthy development of the cotton industry.
It is reported that over 90% of farmland in Bachu County has been mechanized.
With the addition of science and technology, the local area has solved the problem of insufficient labor, and at the same time saved labor costs, effectively driving the local economic development and the people's wealth and income.
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