On 27 september, in a news bulletin (journalist xie hue) pyroyun/xinjiang newspaper, a happy harvest news came from the ploughing county cooperative, which was measured on site by experts from the chinese agricultural university, the chinese agricultural college cotton institute and hebei agricultural university. The cooperative produced an average of 731. 3 kg of acre of core demonstration fields, with an average of 647. 4 kg of cotton fields in thousands of hectares, an increase of more than 15 per cent over traditional cultivation patterns。
On 27 september, panel members carried out a survey of cotton fields. The reporter for pomegranate/sinjia daily, xie hui
“this result marks an important breakthrough in xinjiang cotton production technology for light and efficient cultivation, and demonstrates the high potential of cotton production in xinjiang.”
This technology is being developed by the autonomous region's “tienshan excellence” project, “teams of technology and innovation for light and efficient cotton cultivation”, which is being carried out by the cotton research institute of the academy of agricultural sciences of the autonomous region. The team leader, parhadi buyer, described the technology as a combination of monocropping, the digital prevention and mitigation of seeding, the precise regulation of water fertilization throughout the reproductive period, the construction of a pipe, group control and chemical top control as key technologies, covering the whole chain of harvests for cotton farming, and the integration of data through a full-scale digital management system, creating a new type of cultivation model of “simplified operation and efficient output”, which provided a replicable technological path to the large-scale production of cotton in xinjiang。
“the process of planting cotton, which used to involve more than a dozen manual processes, is now subject to technical precision, from seedling planting, water fertilizer integration to drone control to pre-harvest stock regulation, to precision management and mechanization.” according to guo, the technical director of the ploughing cooperative, the new technology not only raised the acre production by more than 15 per cent, but also saved between $150 and $200 per acre. Based on an average of 647. 4 kg of cotton acre production, this year labour and farm costs alone have saved nearly $300,000, and the increase has been directly translated into profits。
On 27 september, members of the group held discussions on the cotton floor. The reporter for pomegranate/sinjia daily, xie hui
At present, the technology of light and efficient cotton cultivation has been replicated in major cotton areas such as ploughing, jihe, usu, bay and shaya districts, with an area of over 1 million acres。
Since 2024, xinjiang has been pursuing structural reforms on the cotton supply side, building an efficient technology system compatible with the core objectives of “quality, cost reduction, efficiency gains” and comprehensively improving the competitiveness of the cotton industry. According to tian xiaoli, the results of this survey have fully validated the feasibility and dissemination value of light and efficient planting techniques and have provided strong support for the upgrading and quality of cotton production in xinjiang。
“the team will also work with the local agricultural sector to develop a simple operating manual based on the actual optimization of technical parameters in the cotton regions, as well as technical training to promote the diffusion of technology, accelerate the extension of the model to more cotton areas, and provide solid technical safeguards for the creation of 10 million acres of cotton in xinjiang.”。
