Quality · Monitoring
YUAN Bingnian1, WANG Xiujuan2, JIANG Youwei1, REN Shiying1
Cotton official classification is an important technical support to promote the reform of cotton target price policy, but also an important guarantee to implement the effective supervision of cotton and promote the improvement of cotton quality. In 2023, the key indicators of cotton in Hami region increased significantly, with an average length of 29.29 mm, 0.39 mm higher than the average length of cotton in 2022, the average fracture ratio intensity of 29.86 cN/tex, 1.31 cN/tex more than 2022, 93.42% of cot- ton has reached up-to Micronaire value A + B grade, 7.07 percentage points more than that in 2022, reaching the national standard of high-quality cotton. There are some problems regarding cotton color grade and cotton consistency. The cause for the problems includes seed quality, cotton field management, and cotton harvesting, purchasing and processing. This paper has proposed the es- tablishment of a cooperation platform between industry-university-research to promote the development of modern agriculture, to construct the high-standard farmland, and to promote the high-quality development of cotton industry, characterizing modernization, intelligence and information of cotton production. Finally, there are four suggestions to strengthen quality supervision and technical assistance.