As the country’s major high-quality cotton (11840,80.00,0.68%,) production base, Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps in accordance with the “cotton by increasing food” approach to speed up the pace of agricultural restructuring, the 3 years to ensure that the area of compressed cotton to 6.5 million mu, grain planting area increased to 450 million mu.

On the 25th in the Xinjiang Party Committee held the second full-sixth (Enlarged) meeting, the Regional Party Committee, deputy book Xinhua Urumqi, December 25 (Xinhua Pan), as the country’s major high-quality cotton production base, Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps in accordance with the “cotton by increasing food” approach to speed up the pace of agricultural restructuring, the 3 years to ensure that the cotton area compressed to 650 million mu of grain planting area increased to 450 million mu.

On the 25th in the Xinjiang Party Committee held the second full-sixth (Enlarged) meeting, the Regional Party Committee, deputy secretary of, political commissar of the Corps said that this year the internal structure adjustment of agriculture Corps initial results, in the cotton acreage reduction over the previous year nearly 80 million mu, the cotton output is expected to reach 1.3 million tons, an increase of 4.2%; grain output is expected to reach 1.38 million tons, an increase of 14.1%.

Over the years, Xinjiang has formed a cotton-based pattern of a single agricultural crop, cotton acreage and production has increased year by year, of which the area under cultivation in 2007 to 750 million mu in 2008 to reach more than 780 million mu. At the same time, by the impact of international and domestic cotton market, cotton production costs are too high, the problem of declining efficiency are increasingly prominent.

pointed out that, in accordance with the by cotton, grain by the policy of the Corps is determined to withdraw from the future and the risk of inefficient and low-yield cotton-growing areas to ensure that the 3 years, the Corps reduced cotton acreage to 650 million mu. At the same time, attached great importance to food security, grain growing area increased to 450 from 350 million mu, with a total production remained at more than 1.4 million tons.

Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps party committee suggested that next year the focus is to withdraw from low-yielding cotton, cotton and focus to the development of high-quality cotton high yield and efficiency, plans to 750 million mu of cultivated area, with a total capacity 1.1 million tons. At the same time, increased food production next year, plans to grain-growing area of 360 mu,1,550,000 tons.