Xinjiang greatly reduces the cotton planting area

Xinjiang, which has a national total output of “half of the country’s cotton”, plans to reduce the area of ​​cotton cultivation by 4.665 million mu in 2015 and reduce the scale to 15.72% of the total cotton planting area.

As the Kashi region, the largest agricultural production area in Xinjiang, the rural population has more than 3 million, which accounts for 1/4 of Xinjiang's agricultural population. The agricultural industry is of vital importance. In late March, the reporter learned from an interview in Kashgar that this year's counties and cities in the region of Kashgar focused on the structural adjustment ideas of “stabilizing grain, transferring cotton, raising fruit, increasing livestock, shelter, and outstanding features” and earnestly implemented the spirit of the No. 1 document of the Central Committee. We insist on the adjustment of the crop structure as an important basis for promoting agricultural modernization, adjust and optimize the agricultural structure and regional layout, and do our best to do all the work in spring production.

Kashgar reduced cotton area

Kashgar is also a major cotton producing area in Xinjiang. In order to implement the spirit of the “Circular on Conscientiously Reducing the Cotton Planting Area” of the autonomous region, at the beginning of this year, Kashgar has been actively advancing reforms of cotton target prices and retreating cotton and planting grass. Give full play to the role of water resources regulation, reduce the area of ​​cotton, guide the concentration of cotton to the dominant producing areas, and gradually withdraw from the cotton growing in the secondary cotton production area and the low-yielding cotton area. All cotton-growing counties and cities will scientifically reduce cotton and guide farmers to gradually withdraw from the secondary cotton area, risk cotton area, and low-yielding cotton area.

On March 27th, the reporter went to the village of Yingmaili in Yingmaili Township, Jiashi County, Kashi Prefecture. The tractors on the field land roared through the reclaimed land. Under the blossoming almond trees, farmers planted thin films to help plant the early-maturing West Melon. .

In a bi-modality, the reporter met the village’s peasant Abdulwajti Dawuti and the reporter immediately chatted with him. He told reporters that his family has 120 acres of land, 120 acres of land all kinds of cotton last year, but 120 acres of cotton sold only 120,000 yuan last year, 2013 120 acres of cotton sold 3.6 million, last year's cotton income was only the previous year's 1/3.

After harvesting cotton last fall, Abdul Wadi Tikati ploughed cotton fields to plant winter wheat in 45 acres of land. In the spring of this year, the villagers and village leaders introduced large-scale cotton cultivation from the cotton plantations to develop other planting industries.

Both Abdul Daitti Dakhti and the large cotton farmers in the village are wondering how they can't put their income on cotton. In recent years, the price of Jiashigua has been rising in the market. He tried to plant 20 Mu ripe early melons. At the same time, he saw that in the past few years, other villagers in the village had planted prunes and earned money. In order to encourage and support the farmers to develop the cultivation of West Mei, the village also provides saplings of prune to farmers for free. A few days ago Abdulwajti Dawuti had also transplanted 20 acres of prune saplings in his own land with the help of village technicians.

“It has been used for growing cotton for so many years. It is also accustomed to. The cotton market was not good enough last year. I didn’t know what to do. Fortunately, the cadres in villages and villages often explained the market information to farmers, guided farmers to develop a variety of industries, and increased revenue through multiple channels. To get rich, we now have the bottom of our minds. There are counties and townships that support the development of various industries. They do not have to worry about technical issues,” Abdulvahti Takhti said.

Leaving the village of Yingmai Village, the reporter went to the village of Kezilebayewake in the township. The journalist's eyes were blinded by the observation of the Jiashi melon plantation demonstration site. Township Ai Niwaer Yiming told reporters that this demonstration site covers an area of ​​1,000 mu. In 2014, after the land consolidation, the planting of plum seedlings was carried out. In the spring of this year, the township actively guided farmers in this village to adjust planting varieties and changed 500 mu of shelf melons and 500 mu of precocious dual-mode melons. Last year, the cotton planting area in Yingmaili Township was 40,000 mu, which reduced 15,000 mu this year, increased 10,000 mu of melon, 2,000 mu of vegetables, and 3,000 mu of alfalfa. This adjustment has ensured the increase of farmers' income.

Jiashi County Standing Committee member Zhang Lijiang told reporters that Jiashi county has grown more than 140 million mu of cotton each year, and it is also one of the major cotton counties in the Kashgar region. This year, 200,000 mu of cotton planting area has been compressed, and farmers have been encouraged to plant western sweet melons, positively sown corn vegetables and sorghum, etc. to ensure that farmers' income will increase after industrial adjustment.

As a major cotton-producing county, Shache also reduced its cotton planting area to 1.124 million mu in 2015, a decrease of 225,000 mu compared to 2014. According to the wishes of farmers, the reduced area will be planted with vegetables, specialty cash crops, western sweet melons, jujube trees and other crops. Specifically, it has 42,000 mu of vegetables, 55,000 mu of melon, 40,500 mu of special economic crops, 50,000 mu of red dates, and 34,500 mu of other beans and oil crops.

The reporter learned from the Kashgar Regional Bureau of Agriculture that the Kashgar cotton planting area was reduced to 7,092,200 mu in 2015, a decrease of 770,000 mu compared to the previous year. While reducing the cotton planting area, we actively guide the majority of cotton farmers to actively adapt to market changes, change to spring wheat, corn, small grains, processed peppers, processed kidney beans, and marigold cash crops, combined with the development of animal husbandry, and return cotton and grass, and change. Forage and other forage materials are used to solve the problem of shortage of forage material in the development of animal husbandry, and promote the transformation of the crop structure from the dual structure of grain to the grain-and-grass-grass structure, and increase farmers' income through multiple channels.

Xinjiang reduces cotton planting area

The reduction of cotton planting area in the Kashgar region can be said to be a microcosm of the decrease in cotton planting area in Xinjiang.

On March 24th, the reporter learned from the Department of Agriculture of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region that in the reduction of cotton planting area in Xinjiang in 2015, the city of Urumqi reduced 11,000 mu. The adjustment of cotton planting area aims at implementing the spirit of cotton target price reform implemented since 2014, improving the supply and demand pattern of the domestic cotton market, and maintaining the stable operation of cotton prices. The relevant person in charge of the Agriculture Department of the Autonomous Region of the Autonomous Region stated that the release of the guiding plan has released a clear structural adjustment signal and the cotton planting intention in Xinjiang has been reduced significantly, which has, to a certain extent, promoted the increase in the planting intention area of ​​other crops.

In 2015, the intentional area for planting crops in Xinjiang (local) was 74.41 million mu, which showed a trend of “four increases, one draw and one minus”. Among them, wheat, corn, vegetables, and other food crops such as potato and legumes have increased their planting intention. The intention of beet planting is the same as last year, and only the cotton planting intention area has decreased.

According to industry insiders who have been studying the cotton industry for many years, the current international and domestic cotton prices fluctuate at low prices, and the target price of cotton in 2015 will be lower than the level of the previous year, and the cotton planting will generally have lower benefits than in previous years. In response to the new changes in the current cotton market, Xinjiang, which has been growing cotton for the 21st consecutive year with acreage, total production, unit yield, and allocated volume, has timely adjusted the cotton planting area guidance plan and issued decomposition indicators for 13 cotton-growing regions. Science has guided cotton farmers to gradually withdraw from secondary cotton areas, risk cotton areas, and low-yielding cotton areas, reducing the cotton planting area and ensuring that farmers increase their income.

As of now, the lint inventory of local cotton processing companies in Xinjiang is relatively large compared to previous years. The significant reduction in cotton acreage in Xinjiang this year means that the supply of new cotton will fall from 2015 to 2016, which will have an impact on the domestic cotton market.

The reporter learned that since March, purchasing staff of cotton and linen companies, cotton trading companies, and a few cotton mills and cotton husk companies in Shandong, Hebei, Henan, and Jiangsu provinces have entered Xinjiang, focusing on inquiring and looking at goods, including the northern part of Xinjiang. Shihezi, Kuitun and other places are more favored by mainland enterprises because of the convenience of transport out of the border, and the lint and cottonseed markets have started to show signs of recovery.