Late spring is the cotton planting period in Quzhou County, Handan City, Hebei Province. On the morning of the 1st, at the silver cotton planting base in Xizhangtou Village, Huaiqiao Township, the county, a precision seeder equipped with a Beidou navigation system was carrying out cotton sowing operations in the field. The machine drove past to protect the cotton fields. The black mulch film draws straight parallel lines across the vast fields.
Quzhou County is one of the fifth batch of full mechanization demonstration counties for major crops in the country and one of the two cotton full mechanization demonstration counties in Hebei Province. In order to explore new models of cost-saving, efficiency-increasing, and green development of cotton, in 2020, relevant staff from the Hebei Provincial Agricultural Mechanization Administration and the Hebei Provincial Modern Agricultural Industry Technology System Cotton Innovation Team created a 700-acre cotton demonstration base in Xizhangtou Village , after two consecutive years of exploration of the full mechanization technology model, we found the best path to combine agronomy with agricultural machinery, and achieved obvious results.
“Full-process mechanized cotton planting is based on the Xinjiang cotton planting model and incorporates local cotton planting and management experience. Its main feature is to increase the plant density, from the conventional 2,000 to 4,000 plants per mu in the past to the current nearly 8,000 plants. “Wang Hanju, director of the Technical Station of the Quzhou County Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau, said that through hard work, they have also reduced the proportion of peaches and rotten bolls by implementing integrated water and fertilizer drip irrigation and other technologies, and increased cotton yield and quality.
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