New effective agrotechnologies in cotton growing: 8 facts

It is known that since the current 2024, high-yielding foreign cotton varieties and hybrids have been imported as an experiment and measures have been taken to place cotton on the acreage of cotton-textile clusters and farms. Seeds of high-yielding, disease-resistant and pest-resistant cotton varieties with high fiber quality were imported from countries such as Turkey, the People's Republic of China, Tajikistan, and India, which were sown and grown in accordance with established procedures on a total area of 94 thousand hectares throughout the republic. 

     During the observations of the cotton growing Council, it was noticed that the germination of seeds of foreign cotton varieties is higher than 99%, germination is 3-4 days earlier than that of domestic varieties. In the care of foreign cotton varieties and hybrids, due to the use of herbicides against weeds, 2-fold mowing and a reduction in labor costs up to 35-40% is achieved before sowing seeds. 

     At a field seminar on the peculiarities of agricultural machinery of cotton varieties imported from China, held in the farm ”Bakhtiyor, Nematjon, Shavkatjon" of Turakurgan district of Namangan region, Director of the National Center for Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Shukhrat Otazhonov told participants about 8 features of cotton varieties imported from China. According to the analysis, when using new agricultural machinery, taking into account the area of 1 ha, the following efficiency is achieved:

     Manual weeding will be reduced by 2 times, which will save from 0.3 million soums to 0.6 million soums per hectare;
Unification measures are not carried out, which saves in the amount of 0.6 million soums as a result of 2-fold prevention of unification per hectare;
Inter-settlement processing (cultivation) activities are reduced by 7 times, which allows saving 1.0 million soums by reducing 50 liters of containers and labor;
Water consumption for irrigation is reduced to 50% ;
     As a result of the event, 0.3 million soums will be saved;
These varieties are resistant to hookworm and usually save from 0.3 million to 0.9 million soums per hectare on average due to the 3-fold absence of chemical treatment as a control measure;
     As a result of harvesting, the sale of the grown crop to the 1st grade is achieved before October 1;
With regular agrotechnical measures, at least 65-70 quintals per hectare will be received, while an additional 46 quintals will be received on average.
As a result, additional income will be received from 1 ha, on average up to 50.0 million soums.