Xinhua News Xinjiang News October 9 (Wang Keyi Cheng Lei) Golden Autumn, Xinjiang cotton into the harvest period. National high-quality cotton production base in Shaya County, more than 1.7 million acres of cotton to welcome the harvest, 10,000 hectares of “cotton sea” in the efficient operation of the cotton picker, to ensure that all the new cotton in a timely manner to the warehouse.

Reporter Liang Jinling: “Hello, I am now in the location of the Shaya County Tarim Township, the Gegege Thermal wood village, you can see behind me is an endless cotton fields, we have several domestic cotton picker is running at high speed, is a white cotton in the bag. This year, Shaya County cotton mechanized harvesting rate reached 100%, in the past manual harvesting of 50 acres of land requires 12 labor, 2 months time to finish harvesting, now the cotton picking machine harvesting only time 5-6 hours.”

October 9, in the Tarim Township of its Gegegezhimu village of cotton fields, blooming cotton is like a white snow connected to a piece, a glance can not see the end. Several large-scale cotton picking machine shuttle in between, is harvesting cotton, snow-white cotton instantly be “eaten” into the machine, picking, collecting, packing, out of the warehouse “one-stop” completed, the harvest scene dazzlingly beautiful as a picture.

Shaya County, Tarim Township, the Gegegezhimu village villagers Zhang Junqi said: “I planted 120 acres of cotton this year, from April sowing to October harvest are mechanized, now planting is very convenient. This year's weather is better, the yield per mu is expected to be more than 500 kilograms, today 2 sets of cotton picking machine began to pick, it took more than 4 hours to end, very satisfied, now mechanized efficiency is too high.”

Its Gegegezhimu village has more than 250 cotton farmers, planting 18,000 acres of cotton. In recent years, the village combined with land transfer related policies, and actively integrate small plots of land into large fields, and equipped with a complete irrigation system, cotton to achieve large-scale planting, intensive management, industrial development, but also the comprehensive use of “dry sowing and wet out”, precise fertilization, scientific control, water-saving agriculture and many other initiatives and science and technology, so that cotton quality Yield double enhancement.

Chen Fan, deputy director of the village committee of Tarim Township, Shaya County, said: “Our village has 18,000 acres of land, are a hundred acres of large strips of fields, with mechanized harvesting, now just started, there are 12 large cotton picking machine in the ground operation, is expected to pick all the end of the 40 days later, the average yield of 430 kilograms per acre or more, according to the current price of cotton, each acre can be more than 2,500 yuan income.”

In order to ensure the smooth completion of the cotton harvest, over the past few days, Shaya County preparations in advance, and actively organize all kinds of production machinery and professional and technical personnel, into the field to send technology, send services. Up to now, has coordinated 464 sets of cotton picker for the fall harvest service, the county more than 1.7 million acres of cotton is expected to be completed before November 15 all harvest.

Shaya County Tarim Township Party Committee member, deputy mayor Zhou Chao said: “Next, we will rationalize the arrangement of the ‘three autumn’ work, continue to organize the relevant personnel in charge of cotton harvesting, pulling, delivery and sale, safety and other aspects of good service protection, timely help growers to solve the problems, to ensure that the cotton high quality and efficient harvesting. .”