The cotton output of northwest China''s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region
exceeded 5 million tonnes, accounting for 84.9 percent of the total in China,
according to the National Bureau of Statistics.
The planting area of cotton in Xinjiang reached about 2.54 million hectares
in 2019, accounting for 76 percent of the country''s total, the bureau said.
Xinjiang has ranked first in the country''s total cotton output, per unit output
and planting area for 25 consecutive years, according to local authorities.
The production in more than 90 percent of cotton fields in northern Xinjiang
has been mechanized, and the mechanization rate of cotton harvesting in
southern Xinjiang is also increasing year by year, said the Department of
Agriculture and Rural Affairs of Xinjiang.
Source: Xinhua News, China Saturday, 04 January 2020