As a part of an investigation of aflatoxins and other mycotoxins in cottonseeds at harvest, samples of seeds collected from the 1971 crop at locations across the U.S. Cotton Belt were examined to determine the kinds of microorganisms causing internal or seed-coat infection in the field. Aspergi...
< p > at present, the mechanized operation level of cotton planting is relatively low, and the simple cultivation technology is still under exploration. Therefore, from farm to harvest, a lot of farm work must be done by manpower. According to the survey conducted by the Yancheng Investigation...
* The regional government has been actively promoting the use of large-scale cotton harvesting machines among farmers and cooperatives and spurring companies to increase agricultural machinery production. URUMQI, Nov. 14 (Xinhua) -- During the recent cotton harvest season in northwest China's Xinjiang...
The new pricing scheme marks a substantial increase from last season's rates. A medium-staple kantar (approximately 157 kilograms of seed cotton) now sells for 10,000 Egyptian pounds (about 206 U.S. dollars) in Upper Egypt, while a long-staple kantar commands 12,000 Egyptian pounds. This ...
s cotton field sprayed with a drone, the harvest began just 8 days after defoliant spraying. In contrast, the field sprayed with a ground sprayer only started harvesting after 15 days. This acceleration of the harvest process by 7 days allows the cotton yield to be protected from adverse ...
Bu Maoping, chief executive officer of Anxiang County Economic Research Station, said that in the first two years, 2000 acres of cotton fields were leased, and corn and soybeans were replanted. Rainy weather in the harvest season resulted in mildewing of corn, which resulted in no acquisitio...
Within the United States, the Southern states traditionally harvest the largest quantities of cotton. This region was formerly known as the ‘Cotton Belt’, where cotton was the predominant cash crop from the 18th to the 20th century. Due to soil depletion and social and economic changes, ...
The cotton harvest is about to get underway in the Texas High Plains, the windswept region that grows most of the crop in the nation’s top cotton-producing state. But Barry Evans, a third-generation cotton grower, has already walked away from more than 2,000 acres (英亩) of his bone-...
The best national average yield of 17000 Kg seed cotton/ha (with almost the whole crop area being under Bt hybrids), seems to be insignificance when many countries harvest about 50000–60000 Kg/ha seed cotton as national average through straight varieties [15]. Thus, there is a grea...
The time of planting in the Northern Hemisphere is harvest time in the Southern Hemisphere. After harvesting, the seed cotton (consisting of cotton fibre attached to cottonseed and foreign plant matter) is transported to the ginning plant. Ginning is the separation of the fibres from the seed ...