农八师地处天山北麓,准噶尔盆地南缘,属典型的大陆性气候。1982年棉花播种面积扩大到57万亩,预计总产60万担,地膜植棉由1980年试种7.5亩、1981年扩大示范15,000多亩,发展到今年20万亩,平均亩产皮棉130斤,比露地棉花增产56％,其中单产超过200斤的约有18,000多亩。1981年的地膜棉花平均亩产151斤多,比露地的增产55％,亩利润比露地的高出38元多。石河子垦区(即农八师)种植棉花,长期以来存在“春季低温发育慢,夏季缺水难抓桃,秋季霜早成熟晚”的问题。六十年代初虽然采用过铺沙植 Eight agricultural division is located in the northern foot of Tianshan Mountains, southern margin of Junggar Basin, is a typical continental climate. In 1982, the sown area of ​​cotton was expanded to 570,000 mu. The total output is expected to reach 600,000 dan. The planting of cotton-padded mulch will be 7.5 mu in 1980 and 198,000 mu will be expanded in 1981 to reach 200,000 mu this year with an average yield of 130 kg of lint , An increase of 56% over the open cotton, of which about 18,000 acres yield more than 200 pounds. In 1981, the average yield of cotton mulch was 151 pounds, 55% more than that of the open field, and the profit per mu was 38 yuan more than that of the open field. Shihezi reclamation area (ie Nong Bashi) planting cotton, for a long time there are “slow development of low temperature in spring, lack of water in the summer to catch peaches, autumn frost early mature late” issue. Although the early sixties used sand planting