100% Machine Picking Of Cotton In Xinjiang 81 Regiment Reduces Cotton Planting Cost

"This year, the cost of manual flower picking is high, and I planted 43 mu of land cotton It can help me increase my income by about 15000 yuan. " On October 5, Bu Fuxiong, a staff member of Liangfan Station of the Eighty first Regiment of the Fifth Agricultural Division, told Wang Xuekong, a regional cadre.

The Eighty first Regiment is a large cotton planting group of the Fifth Agricultural Division. It has a high cotton planting level and has repeatedly set a record of high cotton production in large areas in northern Xinjiang. In the process of promoting the leapfrog development of the farm, the Communist Youth League Party Committee, in accordance with the requirements and standards of the "three modernizations" development, earnestly changed the development mode, from implementing major adjustment of industrial structure, increasing staff income, improving farm efficiency and enhancing cotton market Starting from competitiveness, accelerate the promotion of machine picked cotton and reduce the cost of cotton planting.

In 2012, 100% of the 81000 mu cotton planted by the Eighty One Regiment was mechanically harvested, and the cotton farmers in the Regiment actively supported this policy. At this time in the past year, employees were busy contacting the labor force for fear that they could not. This year, all cotton will be mechanically harvested, and contractors will not need to contact labor. When it's the turn to pick up the cotton by machine, the contractor will wait in the field one hour in advance. After the cotton machine picks up the cotton, the dry cotton can be loaded into a bucket and handed over directly to the group processing plant, and the wet cotton can be added to the processing plant after drying. To plant cotton of the same area, it took nearly two months of cotton harvesting in previous years. After machine harvesting, it can be delivered to the group processing plant.

It is reported that a cotton picker picks about 200 mu of cotton a day, greatly improving the progress of cotton picking and ensuring the smooth completion of the autumn harvest. At the same time, the reduction of foreign personnel also reduces many potential safety hazards, reduces the management pressure of cadres, and ensures safe production during the autumn harvest. The work that used to take two months to finish this year will be finished in two or three days this year. What will the staff do for the rest of the time. Most of the workers went to the commune to pick up cotton. This year, the cost of picking up flowers manually was about 2.5 yuan per kilogram. After an autumn harvest, people who pick flowers quickly can earn about 10000 yuan.

In the production section of the Eighty first Regiment, Deng Huaigui, the section chief, calculated an account for us. According to the unit yield of 400 kilograms of cotton, the cost of machine picking cotton was 225 yuan per mu, and the total cost was 363 yuan, including 36 yuan for hauling freight, 18 yuan for loading, and 84 yuan for waste; The cost of manual flower picking is 2.5 yuan/kg, and the total cost is 1000 yuan. One mu of land can save 357 yuan. This year, the weather is good, and the cotton yield per unit area is more than 400 kg. One mu of land can save more than 357 yuan for cotton farmers, about 500 yuan. A contractor can save more than 10000 yuan based on the quota of 32 mu.

If the flowers are picked up manually, they are also busy cooking for the gardeners during the autumn harvest. They are busy weighing and carrying bags. After the autumn harvest, the whole person is almost exhausted and paralyzed. After cotton harvesting, these troubles are saved. In addition, those who contract outdoor workers can earn about 10000 or 20000 yuan in turn.

According to reports, this year's 81 Regiment covers 80000 mu cotton After the implementation of mechanized harvesting, the whole regiment saved more than 10000 workers, reduced the cost of cotton harvesting, and increased the income of the staff by more than 20 million yuan. At the same time, it further improved the mechanization level of the regiment farm, laying a good foundation for the construction of "three modernizations" of the regiment farm and the increase of staff income and efficiency of the regiment farm.