As my country’s largest and the world’s most important cotton-producing area, Xinjiang cotton has the highest quality advantage in the country thanks to its unique light and heat conditions. However, high planting costs are still a long-term problem faced by Xinjiang’s cotton industry in the future. How to help cotton farmers increase production and quality, save costs and increase efficiency, and help Xinjiang cotton achieve high-quality development? In this regard, the reporter interviewed Gao Xincheng, chairman of Zhongnong Guoji (Xinjiang) Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “Zhongnong Guoji”).
Gaoxincheng believes that digitalization, simplification, and low-carbonization are the future development trends of Xinjiang cotton, and relying on digital technology is an effective way to achieve high-quality development of Xinjiang cotton. one.
“The high-quality development of Xinjiang cotton not only requires improving productivity, but also constantly optimizing production relations, and at the same time integrating cotton varieties, planting technology and even market competition. Consider it,” Gao Xincheng said.
The cotton industry is a very long industrial chain, including planting, purchasing, processing, spinning, weaving, garment making, etc. Each chain can also Extend more segmented industries and opportunities. Gao Xincheng believes that there are certain problems in some links in the Xinjiang cotton industry chain. For example, in the planting process, there are many varieties, farmers focus on output rather than quality, and it is difficult to increase production; in the purchasing, ginning and other links, there is vicious competition and unclear grading, and the quality of lint cotton is lower than that of imported cotton. There is still a gap. Therefore, the upgrading of the cotton industry is imperative.
“Only by coordinating the improvement of productivity and the optimization of production relations from the perspective of the entire industry chain can the Xinjiang cotton industry release new momentum. This requires market entities and The government works together,” Gao Xincheng said.
To this end, Gao Xincheng led the founding team of Zhongnong Guoji to study the development of Xinjiang’s cotton industry for more than 20 years, and at the same time cooperated with well-known scientific research institutions at home and abroad to form an “Industry+ The “technology + finance” empowerment model helps the transformation and upgrading of Xinjiang’s cotton industry.
In 2018, Zhongnong Guoji and China United Property Insurance Co., Ltd. reached a cooperation intention to jointly build an industrial Internet platform integrating industry and finance. At the same time, we have jointly innovated insurance products with many large domestic insurance companies to serve the cotton industry. Among them, cotton quality insurance, cotton yield insurance, and cotton series meteorological index insurance are all firsts in China.
“Financial comprehensive services are the top priority of cotton industry chain services.” Gao Xincheng said that only by integrating finance, industry, and technology can we better promote The cotton industry chain has undergone profound changes. Finance has made Xinjiang’s cotton industry better, and technology has made Xinjiang’s cotton industry stronger.
“Digital technology is an important carrier for the three-party integration of finance, industry, and technology.” Gao Xincheng said that Xinjiang cotton must have its own regulations, especially in In terms of planting methods, brands, and quality, this requires breakthroughs based on digital technology.
To this end, Zhongnong Guoji, Beijing Heliu Agricultural Science and Technology Research Institute Co., Ltd. and other units jointly established Beijing Feihua Technology Co., Ltd., in conjunction with China Agricultural University, Scientific research institutions such as the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Huazhong Agricultural University have launched future smart digital cotton projects and built a digital cotton industry technology platform.
The platform has achieved a precise, systematic and industrialized ecological closed loop in planting plans, field management, industrial ecology and other aspects, and can achieve one-click access. Planting plans, cotton management that is accurate to the sky, disaster prevention and control that is accurate to the field, integrated irrigation of water and fertilizer, intelligent operation of the whole process of farming, management and harvesting, etc.
The future smart digital cotton project has independent intellectual property rights in my country. It is currently the top international crop model and a disruptive technology in the field of digital cotton. According to the pilot The test can achieve the goal of increasing cotton yield per mu by 10% to 20% and save more than 10% of physical and chemical costs.
In 2021, Zhongnong Guoji signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the Manas County Government to start the construction of a 200,000-acre future smart digital cotton project.
“This technology allows cotton farmers to clearly understand white cotton, which can increase cotton yields, help cotton farmers reduce water and fertilizer inputs, and solve the problem of mixed varieties that have long plagued cotton farmers. At the same time, It can improve the level of disaster prevention and reduction in cotton and help the informatization construction of high-standard farmland.” Gao Xincheng said that relying on the future smart digital cotton project, it can also accurately calculate crop carbon sink data and help my country achieve the carbon peak carbon neutrality goal.
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