Industrial Cluster: Yuli Is Busy Sowing Millions Of Cotton Fields, And New Farmers Are "Smart" To Create New Hope

At present, more than 1.1 million mu of cotton in Yuli County, Xinjiang has entered the full seeding period. Young farmers in the new era "play" with technology and use smart agricultural machinery to sow new hope in the fields.

On April 25, Kulban Ablaiti, a villager, was driving a high-powered tractor to and fro in the high standard farmland in Awati Village, Brazil, Xingping Town, Yuli County. Six years ago, Kulban Abulilaiti drove a high-power tractor in Yuli Lihua Modern Agriculture Co., Ltd. after transferring 120 mu of land in his family. In 2023, through his own efforts and agricultural machinery subsidies, he purchased two high-powered tractors. The salary and agricultural machinery rental doubled the income of Kulban Abulilaiti.

Kulban Abuli, a villager from Awati Village in Brazil, Xingping Town, Yuli County, said, "In 2023, I bought two high-powered tractors to plow and rake the land for money. With the land circulation fee and the money earned by tractors doing farm work, I now have an income of more than 300000 yuan a year, and I feel very happy."

In the high standard farmland of Xinjiang Bazhou Qiangsheng Agricultural Farmers Professional Cooperative, two unmanned high-powered cotton planters equipped with Beidou navigation system are operating orderly in the field. Several workers closely follow the planter to check the conditions of ditching, planting, film laying, soil covering, etc. This year, the cooperative comprehensively adopted a variety of seeding technologies such as "dry seeding and wet seeding" and "precision seeding" to achieve energy saving and efficiency increase in cotton seeding.

Chen Jianjian, technician of Qiangsheng Agricultural Farmers Professional Cooperative in Bazhou, Xinjiang, said, "After our 230 mu land was transferred to the cooperative, I was re employed as a technician in the cooperative. Now the cooperative gives me 8500 yuan a month. I am also very proud and very happy."

Yuli County is one of the important producing areas of high-quality fine staple cotton and high-quality long staple cotton in China. In recent years, Yuli County has focused on building a brand of high-quality raw cotton, vigorously promoted the intensive and large-scale use of land, aimed at improving farmers, supporting farmers and enriching farmers, focused on attracting young people to work in agriculture and cultivating professional farmers, and improved and attracted a number of people through training Cultivate and reserve a batch of farmers, and accelerate the construction of a new type of professional farmers with culture, technology, good management and management skills.

The person in charge of Xinjiang Bazhou Qiangsheng Agricultural Farmers Professional Cooperative said: "Our Qiangsheng Cooperative was established in 2022 and transferred 18000 mu of land in Dunkuotan Township. At the same time, it has absorbed the surrounding villagers who know technology, management and machinery. They can work in our cooperative and have more income, which is very proud."

With its unique geographical location and climate conditions, the cotton produced in Yuli County has long fiber, good color and high quality. Through scientific and rational distribution of cotton seed industry, currently, Yuli County has basically formed a cotton seed industry system integrating "production, learning, research, breeding and promotion", which has strongly promoted the development of cotton industry in the direction of scale, standardization, mechanization, intelligence and informatization. New professional farmers use modern scientific and technological knowledge and business philosophy to engage in agricultural production and services and promote the modernization of agriculture and rural areas. They are answering the era topic of "who will farm and how to farm" with practical actions, which also opens a new horizon for young people's career choices.

Fu Guomei, deputy director of the Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau of Yuli County, said: "Through professional skills training, science and technology application and promotion, we cultivate a new type of professional farmers who understand production and are good at management. Focusing on the whole process of cotton cultivation, management and collection, we will foster and strengthen agricultural socialized service providers, better promote the deep integration of socialized service providers and new farmers, and inject new momentum into rural revitalization. Next, Yuli County will further increase the cultivation and introduction of intelligent agricultural machinery operators and intelligent agricultural talents to better adapt to the development of modern agriculture. "

(Source: CCTV)