Yuepuhu County in Xinjiang is the first choice for growing high-quality cotton due to its unique geographical location, climate advantages, and rich light and heat resources. In recent years, Yuepuhu County has made great efforts to improve cotton quality and output in accordance with the development idea of ”stable grain and high-quality cotton”, and has achieved the agricultural development goal of combining high quality cotton with high yield. In order to comprehensively promote differentiated development and improve economic benefits, Yuepuhu County vigorously develops long-staple cotton high-yield planting technology, continues to promote the research and development of excellent varieties, and promotes the large-scale planting and industrial development of long-staple cotton. Recently, 50,000 acres of long-staple cotton in Yuepuhu County has been fully launched.
People are diligent and spring comes early, so they are busy with spring sowing and farming. In the past few days, the 2022 cotton sowing work in Yuepuhu County has been fully launched in all towns and villages in the county. Recently, at the long-staple cotton planting base in Yukuribuliman Village, Seyek Township, Yuepuhu County, the sound of machines was rumbling. A large-scale agricultural machinery double-film seeder equipped with a Beidou navigation system was shuttled on the land to sow long-staple cotton. . Compared with fine-staple cotton, long-staple cotton not only has longer fiber length, but also has the characteristics of high fiber strength, fineness, white luster and good elasticity. It is an indispensable raw material for spinning high-count yarn and special textile industry. Therefore, the income of long-staple cotton is significantly higher than that of fine-staple cotton.
Gao Jianwen, deputy general manager of Kashgar Xinyue Textile Co., Ltd.: It is not difficult to grow long-staple cotton. Technically, it requires plenty of water and fertilizer, and the core of the plant is relatively small. Tall, and today’s long-staple cotton varieties are more suitable for machine picking. The cost investment and management of long-staple cotton and fine-staple cotton are basically similar, but the price of long-staple cotton is 2-3 yuan higher than that of fine-staple cotton. In this way, the profit output per acre of land is 1,000 yuan higher based on 400 kilograms.
In recent years, Yuepuhu County has attached great importance to the development of the cotton industry, giving full play to its brand advantages as “the hometown of high-yield cotton in China” and continuously optimizing the adjustment of the cotton industry structure. , the long-staple cotton industry will be included in the key development and support industries of the “14th Five-Year Plan”, and the organization and implementation of the cooperative operation model of “company + cooperative + farmer” will be strengthened. Kashgar Xinyue Textile Co., Ltd., as a leading enterprise in promoting high-yield long-staple cotton and machine-harvested cultivation technology in Yuepuhu County, while strengthening the development of long-staple cotton varieties, continues to increase innovation in planting and technical management. This time, the long-staple cotton planting base used “dry sowing and wet planting technology” to grow long-staple cotton, which can further save irrigation water and reduce production costs.
Gao Jianwen, deputy general manager of Kashgar Xinyue Textile Co., Ltd.: Xinjiang, especially southern Xinjiang, is particularly short of water. Dry broadcasting and wet broadcasting technology can save water. , a winter water and a spring water are saved. Experts predict that the amount of water saved will be 200 cubic meters per acre of land.
In recent years, Yuepuhu County has strengthened the connection between industry, academia and research, and cooperated with the Xinjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences to devote itself to high-yield planting technology and excellent varieties of long-staple cotton. The research and development has achieved gratifying initial results. In 2020, the long-staple cotton planting area in Yuepuhu County expanded to 29,000 acres, and in 2021 it expanded to 39,000 acres. In 2020, the average yield per mu of long-staple long-staple cotton Xinhai No. 60, developed in cooperation with the Xinjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Yuepuhu County, reached 546.9 kilograms. For two consecutive years, the average yield per mu of long-staple cotton exceeded 500 kilograms, ranking first in the world. advanced level. In addition, Yuepuhu County also invested 30 million yuan to introduce long-staple cotton machine-picking and processing production lines to support leading enterprises and provide more convenient conditions for farmers to sell their products. Yuepuhu County also signed a high-end long-staple cotton strategic alliance agreement with relevant companies, agreeing to jointly build China’s super-long-staple cotton production base, jointly build China’s high-end long-staple cotton brand, origin certification and protection mechanism, and jointly build Xinjiang’s super-long-staple cotton Cotton Research Center and other strategic cooperation goals have further improved the industrial development system integrating long-staple cotton R&D, planting, processing, textile, production and sales, and gradually realized the industrial development of long-staple cotton. It is understood that Yuepuhu County plans to plant 50,000 acres of long-staple cotton this year. At present, the cotton planting work in Yuepuhu County has been fully mechanized, and the long-staple cotton sowing work is expected to be completed before April 15.
Arupujiang Sawuti, a villager in Yukuribuliman Village, Seyeke Township, Yuepuhu County: We used to grow cotton. Old varieties, long-staple cotton is now being planted here. We know that the cost of growing long-staple cotton is low and the income is high. In the future, I will also grow long-staple cotton in my own land, and I will also publicize the benefits of long-staple cotton to people around me. </p
