After Guyu, Handan City, Hebei Province, known as the “Cotton Sea in Southern Hebei Province” In Cheng’an County, 130,000 acres of cotton have entered the sowing period.
In the cotton planting base of Dadixi Village, Daodongbao Town, Cheng’an County , farmers are busy sowing cotton, and several precision film-laying seeders are operating in an orderly manner. The four processes of sowing, film-laying, drip irrigation laying, and herbicide spraying are carried out simultaneously.
Person in charge of the Cotton Planting Base of Dadixi Village, Daodongbao Town, Cheng’an County Wang Zhentang said, “Now is the critical period for sowing cotton. This year, I have planted more than 1,500 acres of cotton, all using the machine-picking mode and planting with equal row spacing of 76 centimeters, realizing full mechanization of cotton planting.”
In recent years, Cheng’an County has relied on its local cotton planting advantages to vigorously develop the cotton planting industry. Through cooperation with the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Hebei Cooperate with colleges and universities such as Agricultural University to further optimize cotton varieties, vigorously promote cotton and corn intercropping technology, and rely on intelligent agricultural machinery to realize full mechanization of land preparation, sowing, fertilizing, and watering, while reducing labor, pesticides, chemical fertilizers, and water resources. At the same time, it will further increase cotton production and increase farmers’ income.
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