In 2010, Xinjiang collected 2.947 million tons of seed cotton

According to the Brigade and Labor Bureau, due to the impact of natural disasters such as low temperature, drought, and hail, the picking season for cotton was relatively short in all areas of the XPCC. This group has taken effective measures to accelerate cotton harvest progress at all levels. As of November 3rd, 2010, the bulk of the Corps pick-up workers had been dispatched, marking the complete completion of cotton harvesting by the XPCC.

It is understood that in 2010 the cotton planting area of ​​the Corps was 6.8 million mu, which was 200,000 mu less than in 2009. During the cotton harvest season, BINGTUAN actively cooperated with other provinces and cities at various levels to issue information on the needs of flower picking workers in a timely manner. At the same time, it also strengthened the introduction of flower picking laborers inside and outside Xinjiang. It recruited 47.58 million pickers and accumulated 2.47 million tons of seed cotton. To ensure the smooth progress of cotton harvesting.

During this period, the labor and social security departments at various levels actively organized flower picking laborers to sign “Labor Picking Services Agreements” with the contracting households. Each group field provided picking laborers with good production and living conditions, and timely redeemed payment for picking flowers. In 2010, the artificial picking-up costs of the armed forces in different areas of the armed forces ranged from an average of 1-2.5 yuan per kilogram, and picking-up workers all picked up more than 4,000 yuan, an increase of nearly one-third over 2009.

While organizing the manual picking, the XPCC continued to increase the promotion of mechanical cotton picking. At present, the Corps has applied more than 60 sets of cotton pickers, and the mechanical picking area has reached more than 170 million mu, accounting for about 23% of the total cotton planting area of ​​the XPCC.