Xinjiang: Opportunities Drive Local Agricultural Mechanization Development

The “11th Five-Year Plan” is a five-year period in which Xinjiang’s agricultural mechanization development policy environment was significantly optimized, the development speed was significantly accelerated, the development quality was greatly increased, and the development benefits were continuously improved. It was the best period in the history of agricultural mechanization development in Xinjiang, and it was also the majority of agricultural machinery households. The period when the development of agricultural mechanization has gained the most benefits has laid a good foundation for the leap-forward development of agricultural mechanization in Xinjiang. The development of agricultural mechanization in Xinjiang is market-oriented, focusing on the adjustment and optimization of the equipment structure, supported by science and technology, and focused on enhancing comprehensive agricultural production capacity and advancing modern agricultural construction, and conscientiously implementing the national agricultural machinery purchase subsidies and other strong agricultural and agricultural policies. With agricultural laws and regulations, the four levels of agricultural machinery, including equipment, science and technology, operation and safety, have been significantly improved. Agricultural mechanization has entered a period of rapid development and remarkable results have been achieved.

The strength of equipment has been significantly improved. At the end of the “11th Five-Year Plan” period, the total power of agricultural machinery in Xinjiang reached 12.74 million kilowatts (excluding the Corps, hereinafter the same), and the number of tractors reached 540.9 thousand units, an increase of 46% over the end of the Tenth Five-year Plan, respectively. 33%. Among them, 217,000 were large and medium-sized tractors, accounting for 40.1% of the tractor ownership; 408,100 were agricultural and agricultural implements for large and medium-sized tractors, accounting for 40.8% of the total agricultural machinery; 94,400 were livestock machinery, and 14,400 were forestry machinery, respectively. At the end of the "10th Five-Year Plan", it increased by 12.6% and 184.3%. The pace of development of forestry machinery, animal husbandry machinery, and facilities for agricultural equipment has been markedly accelerated. Large and medium-sized, high-performance, and new-type agricultural machinery have developed rapidly in the region, the utilization rate of machinery has been greatly improved, and the structure of agricultural machinery has become more reasonable.

The steady increase of operating water at the end of the “Eleventh Five-Year Plan” period has brought the total mechanization level of major crops to 79.2%, an increase of 10.7 percentage points from the end of the “Tenth Five-Year Plan” period. It continues to rank among the top countries in the country, among which the comprehensive mechanization level of food crops such as wheat, corn, rice, etc. exceeds 80%, the level of comprehensive mechanization of cotton cultivation reaches 70%, and the comprehensive mechanization level of special economic crops such as tomato, beet, pepper, and melon 71.2%, Mechanized harvesting technologies for corn, rice, potato, tomato, and melon have achieved major breakthroughs. New progress has been made in the demonstration, popularization and application of conservation tillage techniques and mechanized recycling of residual membranes. The level of agricultural mechanization operations has been steadily increasing, and the comprehensive agricultural production capacity has been continuously enhanced.

In the five years of breakthroughs in technological breakthroughs, through the regional distribution of advantageous agricultural products, Xinjiang has implemented a series of major agricultural mechanization projects such as purchase subsidies for agricultural machinery, construction of service systems, and conservation tillage, which has significantly improved the supporting capacity of agricultural technology in the region. Mechanized harvesting technologies and products such as corn, cotton, pepper, and melons, and mechanized technologies such as production management and post-harvest treatment have achieved major breakthroughs. A total of more than 100 million mu of new-type agricultural machinery demonstration bases have been cumulatively established in the region, and a large number of advanced and applicable new implements, such as precision seeding, conservation tillage, corn harvesting, tomato harvesting, mechanized fertilization and pruning, have been promoted and applied. The technological content of equipment has been significantly improved, providing strong technical and equipment support for the development of six major industries such as cotton, food, forestry, livestock, regional crops, and facility agriculture in the autonomous region.

Agricultural Mechanization Becomes a Channel for Farmers to Increase Income Xinjiang relied on agricultural machinery purchase subsidies and agricultural machinery public service system construction project planning, and steadily promoted the construction of agricultural machinery technical service systems for agricultural machinery training, supervision and appraisal, technology research and development, technology promotion and market development in autonomous regions, and strived to enhance integrated service functions. . In the past five years, the autonomous region has invested a total of 77.5 million yuan, arranged 34 construction units for agricultural machinery purchase subsidies, arranged 50 agricultural public service system units, and purchased 3,408 units (sets) of equipment. The preliminarily formed supervision and management system for agricultural machinery at the district, prefectural and county levels throughout the region indicates that Xinjiang has been governing the agricultural machinery in accordance with the law and has entered a new stage. It has effectively promoted the supervision and management of the agricultural machinery market in the region and implemented administrative law enforcement. The environment for law enforcement of agricultural machinery has been significantly improved. The safety production work has been effectively strengthened, and it has played an important role in promoting the sustainable, stable and healthy development of agricultural machinery in the autonomous region. At the end of the “Eleventh Five-Year Plan” period, the number of rural agricultural laborers in the region reached 573,000, and the total income from agricultural machinery service operations was 8.723 billion yuan, up 8.77% year-on-year, and the per capita net income of agricultural machinery reached 5,500 yuan, higher than the per capita net income of farmers. 900 yuan, relying on agricultural machinery to engage in business services has become an important channel for increasing peasants' income.