Domestic High-End Cotton Pickers Have Broken The Technological Monopoly Of Western Countries

In the eager eyes of the assembly workers of Aralbo Shiran Agricultural Machinery Technology Co., Ltd., the new three row packing cotton picker manufactured by the company came off the production line. This cotton picker has achieved a new breakthrough in intelligence, which is another achievement made by the Corps in breaking the technological monopoly of cotton pickers in western countries in recent years.

Xinjiang is the largest cotton production base in China. In 2023, the total cotton output will account for nearly 91% of the country, and the planting area, unit yield, and commodity transfer volume will rank first in the country for 29 consecutive years. The Corps has been committed to the development of cotton pickers for a long time, but the cotton picker market has been occupied by American enterprises such as John Deere for a long time due to the failure to overcome key technical problems such as cotton picker head manufacturing technology, dynamic detection system, automatic opposite line control technology, and automatic control system.

Since the beginning of the new century, the Corps has focused on scientific and technological innovation, actively fostered local cotton picker manufacturing enterprises, introduced and supported Shihezi Guihang Agricultural Machinery Equipment Co., Ltd., Xinjiang Swan Modern Agricultural Machinery Equipment Co., Ltd., Aralbo Shiran Agricultural Machinery Technology Co., Ltd. and a number of other enterprises, focusing on high-end cotton picker R&D and manufacturing, Improve independent production capacity and fill in domestic gaps for many times.

"High end cotton pickers integrate complex functions such as picking, stripping, cleaning, collection and packaging, and are typical technology intensive agricultural machinery equipment." Wang Moxing, general manager of Aralbo Shiran Agricultural Machinery Technology Co., Ltd., introduced that the company successfully solved the "choke" technical problems such as engines, hydraulic parts, gearboxes, middle seat tubes, seat tube shafts The core components such as ingot stripping are localized, with high recovery rate and low impurity content, and the mechanical recovery quality is superior to that of similar foreign products.

Xinjiang Swan Modern Agricultural Machinery Equipment Co., Ltd., located in Wujiaqu City of the Sixth Division, has successively developed the technology of prolonging the life of core components such as cotton picking fingers, cotton removal plates, water brushes, etc., and manufactured high-end cotton pickers with low price and good quality. It has more than 40 patents, and can produce seeders, film recycling machines, double-layer seed cotton cleaning machines Sawtooth gin and other operating equipment covering the whole cotton industry chain.

At present, domestic cotton pickers have gradually become the main force in Xinjiang and the Corps market, accounting for more than 90%. Compared with imported cotton pickers, domestic high-end cotton pickers have lower prices. They can complete picking, conveying, packaging, unloading and other operations at one time. With high output power and simple operation, the price of machine picking has dropped to about 180 yuan per mu, nearly 100 yuan less than five years ago.

"The manufacturing level of high-end cotton pickers to a large extent determines the development level of the whole cotton industry chain." Wang Shiguo, a researcher of the Mechanical Equipment Research Institute of the Xinjiang Academy of Agricultural Reclamation Sciences, said, "Domestic high-end cotton pickers break the technological monopoly of western countries and reach the international advanced level in terms of comprehensive performance, which is of great significance to promote the high-quality development of the cotton industry in Xinjiang and the Corps."