In October of golden autumn, Hutubi County has 526,000 acres Cotton is gradually maturing and entering the harvest season, and cotton farmers are rushing to take advantage of the fine weather to harvest new cotton.
On October 14th, in the call In the 3,000-acre cotton field of Wang Longhai, a cotton farmer in the 111 area under the Tubi County Farm Administration Bureau, two newly introduced cotton harvesting and packaging machines are shuttled in the cotton field, and bags of packaged “cotton eggs” are placed on the cotton field. The land is waiting for luck.
According to Wang Longhai, the cotton picker The net harvesting rate of the machine is over 95%. On average, one cotton picking machine can harvest more than 500 acres of cotton per day, which is equivalent to the total workload of nearly a thousand flower pickers in one day, which greatly improves the harvesting efficiency.
In recent years, Hutubi County Continuously improve the level of agricultural modernization, focus on improving the quality and efficiency of cotton, and gradually implement the “six unifications” (unified varieties, land preparation, sowing, management, harvesting, and processing) by increasing investment in agricultural machinery, cultivating improved varieties, and promoting high-standard farmland construction. ) standardized production model; at the same time, strengthen the integration of agricultural machinery and agronomy, integrate and promote advanced practical technologies such as ultra-wide film cotton planting, and actively promote the mechanization of cotton production plowing, sowing, plant protection, fertilization, harvesting and other links, and the cotton mechanical harvest rate reaches 100% .
This year, Hutubi County has a total of 526,000 acres of cotton are planted, and all of them have entered the harvesting stage. In order to ensure the smooth progress of mechanized cotton harvesting, relevant departments and towns coordinated and organized 225 cotton picking machines and nearly 500 transport vehicles to put into cotton harvesting work. At present, nearly half of the cotton harvest in the county has been completed, and the harvest is expected to be completed on October 25.
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