< p > with the booming sound of the machine, a row of cotton plants was picked up a href= "//m.pmae.cn/news/index_c.asp" > cotton machine < /a > "into the arms", picked cotton fluttering in its "belly".

Recently, dozens of cotton experts from the Ministry of agriculture's Agricultural Technology Extension Center and the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and dozens of cotton experts from 5 provinces such as Liaoning and Anhui, have watched the demonstration of cotton production in Dafeng City, Jiangsu province.

This marks Jiangsu's first successful cotton production in the Yangtze River Basin.

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< p > labor intensity and low picking efficiency are one of the important reasons hindering the sustainable development of cotton industry.

Ji Congliang, deputy director of the Jiangsu Provincial Agricultural Commission, said that since 2004, the cotton planting area in Jiangsu has decreased from about 6000000 Mu to about 2000000 mu, mainly due to the low rate of mechanization of cotton production.

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< p > reporter learned at the < a href= "http://cailiao.sjfzxm.com/" > cotton mining machine < /a > the scene showed that the net rate of cotton in the demonstration plots exceeded 90%, and the harvest time in one mu was less than 15 minutes, and the efficiency was nearly 100 times higher than that in artificial harvesting.

In terms of cost savings, according to the scale of cotton planting per mu of 6 cotton, 80 yuan per worker, the cost of picking cotton per mu is 480 yuan, while the cost of cotton picking is only about 200 yuan per mu, which is about 41% of artificial picking.

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< p > in recent years, with the support of the "three new" projects in Jiangsu Province, Jiangsu Provincial Agriculture Commission, Nanjing Agricultural University, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences and many other units have worked together to tackle the problem. With the goal of "light weight and easy machine and happy cotton planting", the system has been integrated and integrated from varieties and cultivation to harvesting machinery. After 4 years' efforts, the mechanization mode of cotton production has been initially explored, and the cotton production test and demonstration have been successfully realized this year.

This is the first time in the history of the production of a href= "//m.pmae.cn/news/index_cj.asp" > cotton < /a > in Jiangsu, and also the first time in the Yangtze River valley cotton region.

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