National Bureau Of Statistics: Xinjiang Cotton Production Accounts For Nearly 90% Of The National Output

According to the survey team of Xinjiang of the National Bureau of statistics, the total cotton output in Xinjiang this year is 5.219 million tons, accounting for nearly 90% of the national cotton output; Xinjiang's cotton output has been stable at over 5 million tons for four consecutive years, accounting for more than 80% of the country's total for five consecutive years.

Since the beginning of this year, Xinjiang has laid out and developed high-yield and superior cotton areas, withdrawn from the secondary suitable cotton areas such as no water source guarantee and fruit cotton intercropping, and promoted the concentration of cotton to high-quality cotton production counties and cities, and improved the utilization level of production resources. The cotton planting area of the whole region was 2506.1 thousand hectares, an increase of 4.2000 hectares over the same period of last year.

According to the field survey results of Xinjiang survey team of National Bureau of statistics, Xinjiang has been promoting the improvement of cotton quality, and the cotton varieties in the survey area of the same ecological cotton planting area tend to be unified gradually, the unity degree of cotton varieties in the whole region has been effectively improved, and the cotton yield per unit area in Xinjiang is basically stable. The cotton yield per hectare is 2046.4 kg (136.4 kg / mu).

In recent years, guided by the new development concept, Xinjiang has continuously optimized the regional distribution and variety structure of cotton, guided cotton planting to concentrate in advantageous production areas, continuously improved the supporting mechanism of cotton target price policy and cotton production quality, deeply implemented the structural reform of cotton supply side, and continuously extended and improved the industrial chain supply chain, Improve the quality and efficiency of cotton industry. At the same time, we will continue to increase the technology promotion of mechanized cotton harvesting, guide the development of large-scale and intensive cotton planting, and the new agricultural business entities represented by cooperatives have come to the fore, driving the transformation of cotton production from small-scale decentralized operation to moderate scale operation, and steadily releasing Xinjiang's cotton flower production capacity advantages.

(source: Xinjiang Daily)