Complete Supply Chain: The Whole Cotton Industry Chain In Shaya County Is Taking Shape

August sun is endless cotton fields, green leaves, dotted with flowers. This 2400 Mu cotton field belongs to Jifeng agricultural service professional cooperative in kumtokai village, gulebag Town, Shaya county. "Enough water is needed at the flowering and boll stage." Zhao kunyong, a member of the cooperative, squatted down and grabbed a handful of soil. The wet soil was squeezed into a ball, and after releasing the hand, it did not disperse.

This is a high water-saving technology for cotton fields. Compared with before, water use in cotton fields has been reduced by about half, but the yield per mu has almost doubled. "If you use less water, you can ensure the frequency of watering. If you water more in the critical period, the yield per mu will increase." Shaya County Agricultural Technology Extension Center Director Musha Kasim said.

"Less food and more meals" solves the problem of water consumption for cotton planting, makes Shaya cotton with high quality and high yield more competitive, and also makes the pace of Shaya to build the whole cotton industry chain more quickly.

On August 3, ahemati rexiti, a member of the Demin Planting Farmers Professional Cooperative in Shaya County, inspected a high-efficiency water-saving cotton field in kashtograk village, Hongqi Town, Shaya county. Pomegranate cloud / photo by Zou Yi, reporter of Xinjiang Daily

Shaya is a major cotton planting County in Xinjiang, with 1.868 million mu of cotton planted this year. In recent years, the county has actively transformed resource advantages into economic advantages, vigorously developed the cotton industry, and built a cotton industry chain integrating planting, production and deep processing. At present, there are 33 cotton processing enterprises, more than 150 textile and garment enterprises (cooperatives) and 3 cottonseed processing enterprises in the county.

"I have been in Shaya for 10 years and witnessed the development of the whole cotton industry chain." Gao Fengqin said. She is now the person in charge of Xinjiang Shouxin Seed Industry Technology Co., Ltd., Shaya Shouxin Cotton Textile Co., Ltd., and Shaya Jinsong Industrial Clothing Co., Ltd. From cotton seed production to planting, from spinning to weaving to garment making, as the local cotton industry continues to expand the chain and strengthen the chain, her business in Shaya is getting bigger and bigger. She established a seed production company in 2012, a flower ginning plant in 2013, and a textile factory in 2018. Now, a textile factory with an investment of 150 million yuan has been built, with the goal of making home textile products and clothing, Complete the industrial chain closed loop from a cotton seed to a garment.

Gao Fengqin's entrepreneurial experience is an epitome of the development of the whole cotton industry chain in Shaya county. At present, the county's textile and garment enterprises (cooperatives) are involved in cotton yarn production, weaving, clothing, carpet, embroidery, etc., with a spinning scale of 1.64 million spindles, 1.01 million spindles have been put into production, and the annual consumption of lint cotton is more than 150000 tons; 9784 looms are under construction and 1414 have been put into production. In the first half of this year, 11 textile and garment enterprises above designated scale produced 50900 tons of spinning yarn and 26.17 million meters of grey cloth, realizing a total industrial output value of 1.87 billion yuan and an industrial added value of 276 million yuan, an increase of 51.5% year on year. This year, the county will implement 12 industrial chain projects, including Lihua textile and Jiahui textile, with a total investment of 954 million yuan.

Cotton industry is still in the process of extending, supplementing and strengthening the chain. This year, for cotton straw, Shaya county will introduce the cotton straw based high-performance ecological wood-based panel construction project of Shanghai Kangbai environmental protection equipment Co., Ltd., with a total investment of 1.3 billion yuan. In addition, the total investment of Shaya County Shanshui Environmental Protection Technology Co., Ltd. with an annual output of 200000 tons of plant fiber construction project will also reach 250 million yuan; The total investment of Aksu Jiarun Technology Co., Ltd. will be 1.02 billion yuan.

At present, nearly 50% of the cotton in Shaya county has been transformed into textile products on the spot, with large-scale operation, standardized production and mechanized operation, and the development mode of the whole cotton industry chain has initially taken shape.

(source: XPCC radio and television station)