Heavy Rainfall Leads To 30% Cotton Harvest In Ezhou, Hubei

2010/7/30 19:10:00 275

Due to excessive rainfall in early 7, Ezhou, Hubei

cotton

Seriously affected, according to the national cotton market monitoring system Ezhou monitoring station survey, preliminary estimates of cotton harvest area over 20 thousand acres, accounting for about 30% of the total cotton planting area, farmers have all changed to sesame and corn and other crops.

It is understood that

Langport

It is the main cotton producing area in Ezhou. This year, the cotton planting area is 16 thousand and 500 mu, of which the disaster area is 9956 mu, accounting for 60% of the total area, and the total area of harvest is 5417 mu, accounting for 33% of the total area.

To help

Peasant household

To reduce the losses caused by disasters, the local government has taken positive measures to invite experts from agriculture and fisheries to come to class training and minimize economic losses as far as possible.

In addition, Linjiang Township cotton planting area of 14235 acres this year, of which 8410 acres of disaster area, accounting for 59% of the total area, the area of 2460 acres, accounting for 17% of the total area.

In late July, the weather in Ezhou has improved, and the highest temperature in recent two days is above 35 degrees Celsius, which is conducive to the restoration of cotton growth.

However, the early calamity weather caused the local cotton to grow slowly. At present, the cotton plants with good growth are less than 100 centimeters, 7-8 buds and 2 bells, and the growth is only about 60 centimeters, which is far from reaching the level of cotton growth in other parts of Hubei province.