Manas: Smart Agriculture Makes Cotton Industry More Beautiful

Since the beginning of summer, 700000 mu of cotton in Manas County has sprouted and grown well. At present, it is the key season for cotton field management in summer. In the 1000 mu cotton field of Zhou Yongpeng, a villager in Heiliang village, letuyi Town, Manas County, several unmanned Tractors Equipped with Beidou navigation system are carrying out field management operations such as cultivating and spraying medicine according to the preset route.

"Now the seedlings are growing well, with three leaves and one core and four leaves and one core. In the past two days, our key work is to cultivate and apply medicine. We use the Beidou navigation unmanned system to cultivate. The depth and evenness of cultivation can be kept consistent, and there will be no damage to seedlings or burying seedlings. " Villagers Zhou Yongpeng said.

Two years ago, around the structural reform of cotton supply side, Heiliang village adjusted the agricultural industrial structure, integrated 8000 mu of cultivated land in the village, built high standard farmland, turned small fields into large fields, and vigorously promoted the use of new water-saving drip irrigation, Beidou navigation unmanned system and other new cotton planting technologies, so as to realize intensive and large-scale agricultural production.

"My 1000 mu cotton field belongs to high standard farmland. I used to hire more than 10 gardeners, but now I don't need any labor from planting to harvesting. The whole process is mechanized. In this way, the cost of labor will be saved. Just picking fees can save more than 300 yuan per mu of land." Zhou Yongpeng calculated an account for the author.

At the same time, a new intelligent irrigation system has been applied to the construction of high standard farmland. Today, Zhou Yongpeng can remotely irrigate cotton fields through mobile app software, and water, nutrients and drugs can be accurately transported to the root soil of crops through drip irrigation, which improves the precision of irrigation, fertilization and pesticide application, and realizes the intelligent management of cotton production. Through the use of intelligent agricultural irrigation and water-saving system, the amount of fertilizer and pesticide reduced by about 20%, the utilization rate of fertilizer increased by 10%, the utilization rate of chemical pesticide increased by more than 6%, and the average yield of cotton increased by 3%. In 2020, the average yield of 1000 mu cotton planted by Zhou Yongpeng will reach 480KG.

Good cotton is planted. Good variety and good quality are two words that Zhou Yongpeng often talks about in the past two years. Just three years ago, Zhou Yongpeng suffered a great loss because he only focused on quantity and not on quality. After the implementation of cotton price reform, the market forced cotton farmers to optimize planting varieties, improve the quality of cotton, and cultivate cotton with intensive cultivation.

"Enterprises need what kind of cotton, we plant what kind of cotton, this is the so-called order agriculture, which is easier to high quality and good price, greatly improving our ability to resist market risks." Zhou Yongpeng said.

In 2020, the second headquarters of the national cotton trading market will be set up in Xinjiang. Through the comprehensive service platform of cotton supply chain, resources such as warehouse, highway and railway can be effectively integrated to provide specialized services such as commodity cotton trading, supervision, logistics distribution, capital, data information and so on for the whole cotton industry chain.

Ma Youhong, general manager of Manas Yintian Cotton Industry Co., Ltd., will pay attention to the comprehensive service platform of cotton supply chain every day. Through this platform, we can timely understand the relevant situation of cotton production and sales, timely adjust the production and operation strategy, and ensure the enterprise profit and increase the income of farmers.

"In the past, it took two or three months to know that the price of cotton in the mainland has increased. We are quite passive. Now that we have this platform, our communication with mainland enterprises has been strengthened and information has been obtained more quickly. According to big data, we speed up the transfer of land, cooperate well with farmers, select superior varieties, and adopt new technologies to improve the quality of cotton in Xinjiang, so as to benefit agricultural enterprises. " Ma said.

This year, Manas County actively optimized the cotton planting structure, established a new system for the integration and development of the primary, secondary and tertiary industries through the new interest linkage mechanism of "leading enterprises of supply and marketing cooperatives + social service organizations + farmers' planting professional cooperatives + farmers", further promoted the integration of cotton production chain and industrial chain, and promoted the transformation and upgrading of cotton industry, as well as the overall improvement of quality and efficiency.

(source: Changji daily)