FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF OUR NATIONAL INTERESTS: WHICH MACHINE SHOULD WE PREPARE FOR FARMERS?

Abstract

Due to the growing cultivation of early-maturing and high-yielding cotton varieties in Uzbekistan, for many years the farming enterprises and cotton clusters of our Republic have been using high-performance and efficient horizontal spindle cotton picking machines (HSMs) manufactured in the USA and China to harvest cotton in defoliated fields. These machines are mainly engaged in harvesting operations in fields where 80–90% or more of cotton bolls have opened and the cotton yield is 35–45 centners per hectare. When cotton raw material is harvested by these machines, the harvest completeness indicators are very high, reaching 90–95%. Under such conditions, the cotton harvest is collected at low costs, and these machines justify themselves.