“Now, when we go to the cotton factory to hand over cotton, we don’t have to queue up, and the speed is very fast. We can unload and tie cotton at the same time. The price of one acre of land is about 3,000 yuan, and the profit of cotton is about 1,000 yuan.” Bayinguoleng, Xinjiang Zhang Xuejun, a cotton farmer in Bohu County, Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture (hereinafter referred to as Bazhou) said so.
In the past few days, the harvest of 3.57 million acres of cotton in Bazhou, Xinjiang has come to an end. Cotton processing companies have stepped up their purchases and produced in an orderly manner to ensure that cotton farmers can pay their dues. It can be sold and it can be sold. In 2022, cotton farmer Zhang Xuejun planted more than 2,000 acres of high-quality cotton. Due to the adoption of refined management and mechanized operations, the cotton yield per mu is expected to reach more than 470 kilograms.
In the cotton factory, mountains of snow-white cotton are piled up, and workers are loading, unloading, palletizing, and packaging the cotton in an orderly manner. In the workshop, machines roar and motors transmit. The finished cotton is packaged and marked, and then transported to the designated site for storage. Tan Jiangfeng, the person in charge of a local cotton processing company, said that since the company opened scales to harvest cotton in mid-November, the company has sufficient funds and adopts a cash-on-hand method, without giving any free money to cotton farmers.
Tan Jiangfeng said: “In 2022, we started purchasing in late October. So far, we have purchased 11,000 tons of seed cotton, and the funds to be purchased are 150 million yuan. , plans to purchase 20,000 tons.”
Bazhou, Xinjiang is one of the important producing areas of high-quality cotton in China, according to statistics from the Xinjiang Bazhou Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau. , in 2022, the total cotton output of 3.57 million acres in Bazhou, Xinjiang is expected to reach 1.4 million tons, and the total lint cotton output is expected to be more than 500,000 tons. Both total output and unit yield have increased compared with last year.
Li Weifang, Party Secretary and Director of the Supply and Marketing Cooperative Federation of Bohu County, Bazhou, Xinjiang, said: “During the cotton purchase this year, the supply and marketing cooperative arranged personnel to go deep into the company’s production as required. On the front line, we urge companies to do a good job in safety production, and at the same time require companies to implement various cotton purchase policies, safeguard the interests of cotton farmers, and ensure the completion of this year’s cotton purchase and processing tasks.”</p
