Five Characteristics Of Cotton Production In Xiantao, Hubei

　　 1, the area increased. Last year Cotton price The enthusiasm of cotton growers to cotton planting has been restored this year. cotton The area showed a recovery growth. The total cotton planting area in the city was 375 thousand and 500 mu, which increased by 44 thousand and 200 mu over the same period, and increased by 13.34%.

2. Transplanting late. This year, the sowing date of cotton in the city is 5-7 days longer than usual. The reason is that the sowing time is very frequent, resulting in the late sowing of seeds. The rape and wheat harvest also suffer from "warehouse door disaster", which makes the cotton seedling transplanting field delay for 7-10 days, which has a negative effect on the cotton field growth time.

3, density increases. The planting density increased from 1300 plants per mu to 1400 plants last year, so as to reduce the risk of natural disasters to cotton production by making full use of the advantages of hybrid cotton individuals and groups.

4, oil and cotton expansion. This year, the area of oil stubble cotton has reached 230 thousand mu, an increase of 33 thousand mu over last year. However, the area covered by plastic film mulching and plastic film mulching has dropped to only 7 mu. At the same time, the task of upgrading stubble and cotton seedling management in the field is larger, and the later cotton planting, late, late ripening, and effective Bolling period are short. cotton It is difficult to win high yield.

5, the growth is bad. Due to late planting time and weather changes, the total seedling area was 320 thousand mu, which accounted for 85.22% of the total area by the end of April, representing a decrease of nearly ten percentage points compared with last year. According to the survey in June 13th, the average stem leaves of Wheat Intercropped with cotton were 5.6 slices, 1 less than that of the same period last year. The leaves of 6.3 main stem leaves were 0.7 less than that of the same period last year. The average stem leaves of the cotton were 4.4 pieces lower than that of last year. According to the fertility process, it was postponed for 7 days compared with last year.