On March 24, a statement published by the Swedish clothing brand H&M on its official website triggered public outrage among Chinese netizens. The statement stated that Xinjiang is the largest cotton growing area in China. So far, our suppliers have sourced cotton from farms related to the Swiss Better Cotton Development Association (BCI) in this area. “As it becomes more and more difficult to conduct credible due diligence in the region, BCI has decided to suspend the issuance of BCI cotton licenses in Xinjiang. This means that the cotton needed for our products will no longer be obtained from there.”
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It is reported that from 2019 to 2020, many Xinjiang cotton production enterprises have received BCI's "termination of cooperation email". According to the official website, BCI is the world's largest sustainable development plan for cotton. As of the end of 2019, BCI has more than 1,840 members, covering the entire global cotton supply chain from farmer organizations to retailers and brands. In 2019, BCI retailers and brand members purchased more than 1.5 million tons of "Better Cotton", including many internationally renowned brands such as Nike, Adidas, IKEA, and H&M.
In fact, the quality of Xinjiang cotton has always been a world leader. Xinjiang’s cotton output in 2020/2021 is 5.2 million tons, accounting for about 87% of domestic production and about 67% of domestic consumption. The supply has been in short supply for many years. And with the promotion of mechanized cotton picking in my country, as early as 2019, the proportion of cotton harvested in Xinjiang has reached 42%.
According to statistics, the cotton planting area in Xinjiang will be 36.655 million mu in 2020, and the machine harvest rate has exceeded 60%. It can be seen that the level of machine harvesting cotton in Xinjiang has achieved a qualitative leap. , Southern Xinjiang is also rapidly improving, of which the XPCC's machine yield is about 95%, and the local area has also exceeded 40%.
It can also be seen that the accusations of forced labor and religious discrimination against ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region by H&M, Nike and other companies headed by BCI are ridiculous! Such nonsense has of course aroused public outrage in China. Regarding the so-called "forced labor", "forced sterilization" and other "human rights violations" in Xinjiang, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has repeatedly clarified the facts and truth on many occasions: this is a complete lie!
Domestic-made cotton picker helps the rapid development of Xinjiang mechanical cotton picking
As mentioned earlier, the cotton harvest rate in Xinjiang in 2020 has exceeded 60%. The reason why Xinjiang's cotton machine yield has been able to develop rapidly in the past two years is inseparable from the rapid development of domestic cotton pickers headed by Bo Shiran. As we all know, cotton pickers are typical technology-intensive agricultural machinery products, and the barriers to entry are very high. At present, there are only two big players, , John Deere, and Case, and domestic brands are among the rising stars.
The biggest advantage of domestic cotton pickers is cost performance, followed by picking quality. From the perspective of operational effectiveness, the net picking rate of domestic cotton pickers is even higher than that of foreign products. The agricultural machinery purchase subsidy system shows that the price of domestic cotton pickers is 700,000-1.25 million for 3 rows, 1 million to 1.5 million for 5 rows, 2 to 2.5 million for 6 rows, and John Deere and Case of the same level The price of New Holland's domestically produced products is half or even more than twice as high.
Obviously, the high price of foreign cotton pickers discourages many agricultural machinery operators, and the more cost-effective domestic cotton pickers can recover the cost in a shorter period of time. Therefore, domestic cotton pickers develop faster. The share of cotton machines has reached 84%, which shows that users have accepted domestic brands, and the development of domestic cotton pickers has been unstoppable.
In the years since the rise of domestic cotton pickers, Xinjiang Bo Shiran has developed quite eye-catchingly, and has become a leading enterprise in the domestic cotton picking machine industry. Xinjiang Bo Shiran Intelligent Agricultural Machinery Co., Ltd. was established in 2009, facing difficulties in the domestic cotton picking machine market that has been monopolized by foreign brands throughout the year. After years of technical reserves, Bo Shiran's cotton picking machine was officially launched in 2017. It was put on the market in batches and accumulated a lot in 2018. More than 240 units were sold in one fell swoop, breaking the high monopoly of foreign brands in Xinjiang cotton picking machine marketsituation.
With the further recognition of Bo Shiran products by cotton farmers, and with the high cost performance of its own products, by the end of 2020, the sales of Bo Shiran cotton picking machines have been close to 1,200! It can be said that Bo Shiran has made outstanding contributions to the advancement of mechanical cotton harvesting in Xinjiang.
Breaks down technical barriers and solves the problem of high-end agricultural machinery stuck necks.
A cotton picker integrates complex functions such as walking, picking, grooming, cleaning, collection, and packaging. It not only requires electro-hydraulic integration, but also the entire operation process. Monitoring and dynamic adjustment is a moving information center. It is a typical technology-intensive, capital-intensive, high-value-added agricultural machinery equipment. Its key cotton picking head manufacturing technology, cotton picking head dynamic detection system, and automatic alignment Control technology, cotton picker automatic control system , etc. are all technical barriers.
Although the current sales of domestic cotton pickers far exceed those of foreign brands, domestic brands still have a long way to go in the field of high-end equipment. Looking at the essence through the phenomenon, the unprovoked accusations by companies or organizations headed by BCI against Xinjiang cotton and even Xinjiang human rights are nothing more than one of the methods used by the United States to incite China's threat theory and suppress China's economic development. As the United States continues to impose technical blockades on China, it is clear that the chip blockade will only be the beginning, and export restrictions on China's high-end agricultural equipment may be launched soon. Therefore, domestic agricultural machinery brands must pay attention to the research and development of core technologies, work hard on high-end agricultural machinery equipment, and solve the "stuck neck" problem in the agricultural machinery industry.
