Golden autumn season, Halbach Township, Luntai County, Xinjiang 148,900 acres of cotton have gradually matured and entered the harvesting period. Cotton farmers are taking advantage of the fine weather to start picking new cotton.
October 18, Hal In the cotton field of Xu Yuanjiang in East Village, cotton blossoms are blooming. Cotton farmers are busy picking cotton, and the scene is a busy scene.
It is understood that this year Halbach Among the 148,900 acres of cotton grown in the township, 134,000 acres are picked by machines. The total number of cotton planting households reaches 600, and there are 153 large planting households.
With the continuous improvement of mechanization level , the cotton harvesting work in the township is mainly based on machinery. Compared with the traditional manual cotton picking method, mechanical cotton picking greatly saves labor and effectively increases farmers’ income.
”There are currently cotton picking sites in the township There are 35 machines, including 28 local machines and 7 cross-region operations, fully meeting the demand for ‘machine mining’.” said Waili Turdi, deputy secretary of the Party Committee and head of Halbach Township, Luntai County.
The cotton picking work is coming to an end. Mechanical harvesting is expected to start on October 20, enter the peak period in late October, and be fully completed on November 5.
In recent years, Luntai County has The Party Committee and Government of Erbake Township regard the cotton industry as the “highest priority” of agricultural production, and take multiple measures to promote the large-scale, standardized and intensive development of cotton production, comprehensively improve the level of cotton planting, and provide important support and guarantee for accelerating the development of modern agriculture.
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