Industrial Cluster: Mechanization Of Yuli County Adds New Engine To Cotton Harvest

Cotton peach vies to open boll, cotton flower white win snow. Recently, the cotton in Tuanjie town of Yuli County has entered a period of bumper harvest. Large scale cotton pickers shuttle back and forth in the cotton field. Intelligent and efficient cotton picking methods have become a landscape in rural fields. The town vigorously promote agricultural mechanization to ensure that this year's cotton harvest is completed with high efficiency and high quality.

This year, Tuanjie town has a total cotton planting area of 20100 mu. The cotton output of Tuanjie town has increased steadily, which is expected to increase by 2.4% over the same period of last year. The quality indexes of cotton color grade and fiber length have also been greatly improved. The quality is obviously better than that of last year, and the production efficiency continues to improve. Since the cotton harvest preparation work has been carried out in early October, in order to facilitate the picking of cotton picker, UAV, locomotive boom sprayer and other equipment are used to spray defoliant. At present, the large cotton picker is carrying out continuous harvesting in the field. Up to now, 12900 mu of cotton has been harvested, and the mechanization rate has reached 93.8%.

The cotton picker is working in the cotton field. Original morning rain

The biggest advantage of machine picking cotton is that it improves the harvesting efficiency, realizes the integrated packing easily, and saves the transportation time for farmers. Han Wei, a cotton farmer from the fourth village group of Donghaizi village, said: "My family has planted 800 mu of land, mainly using cotton picker to harvest cotton. Only about 10 mu of land is artificially harvested cotton. A large cotton picker can harvest more than 200 mu a day. Before, at least 50 flower pickers were employed to work for several days. This year, cotton is growing well. The yield per mu can reach 460 kg, and the amount of flowers harvested by mechanization can reach 90000 kg in a day." Speaking of the convenience of mechanized harvesting, Han Wei's face is full of joy of harvest. The popularization of mechanization makes it easy for farmers to grow cotton.

In order to let the national policy of benefiting farmers really fall on the head of farmers, improve the farmers' understanding of new technology and new machines and tools. The Party committee of Tuanjie town coordinated the agricultural machinery and agricultural technology station, vigorously publicized and implemented the national policy of benefiting agriculture, conscientiously carried out subsidies for purchasing agricultural machinery, and professional and technical personnel went deep into the field to train farmers on the standardized use of agricultural machinery, solved the difficulties in cotton harvesting work in a timely manner, and deployed UAVs, cotton pickers and transport tractors for farmers. "Next, Tuanjie town Party committee will actively coordinate the prevention and control of the epidemic situation and ensure the smooth flow of traffic, keep a close eye on the key areas, grasp the key links, take various measures at the same time, and spare no effort to coordinate with multiple departments to do a good job in transportation service guarantee work, so as to provide strong support for the people to sell and transport cotton." Tuanjie town Party committee member, vice mayor, United Front secretary, said.

From less to more, from coarse to fine, agricultural machinery in Tuanjie town in the vast field, promote the town's agricultural production big harvest. Li Dong, Party Secretary of Tuanjie Town, said: "Tuanjie town's agricultural work always takes" improving quality, reducing costs and increasing benefits "as the core. Next, our town will continue to strengthen the introduction of new agricultural varieties and technologies, vigorously popularize agricultural mechanization, promote agricultural production and upgrading of agricultural products, let the people enjoy the joy of harvest, make the agricultural work of Tuanjie town more brilliant, and strive to write a new chapter of Rural Revitalization."

(source: Xinhua)