At present, it is the critical season for apple fruit thinning, and fruit farmers in various towns and villages in Aksu City seize the good weather to thin the fruit trees to ensure the shape and color of the fruit, improve the yield and quality of the fruit, and lay a good foundation for this year's apple harvest.
On May 9, the reporter walked into an apple orchard in Towankebaridang Village, Yiganqi Town, Aksu City, and saw a busy scene in the orchard. The members of the working team of the Urumqi Branch of the Industrial Bank in Towankebaridang Village, Yiganqi Town, the "two committees" of the village and the fruit farmers are intensively and orderly carrying out fruit thinning operations, removing crowded fruits, small fruits, residual fruits and diseased fruits, so that healthy fruits are evenly distributed on the branches and fully absorb nutrients.
Kou Guoping, a fruit farmer, said: "Every 20 centimeters on the branches, excess and weak fruits need to be removed to ensure that the single fruit left in the later stage absorbs enough nutrients to ensure high-quality fruit yield." ”
Good apple quality is inseparable from careful planting, cultivation and pruning. Before thinning the fruit, the fruit grower also needs to thin the buds and flowers to reduce the flowering density on the branches. When thinning the fruit, it is necessary to pinch off the excess young fruit to reduce excessive nutrient consumption, so that the nutrients of the fruit tree can be delivered to the retained fruit, so as to improve the quality and yield of the fruit. At the same time, the appropriate amount of fruit can also reduce the occurrence of fruit tree diseases and pests and increase the life span of fruit trees.
"Scientific fruit thinning is an effective measure to achieve high quality, high yield and stable yield, which can not only improve the quality of fruits, but also an important measure to regulate the annual phenomenon of fruit trees. We will teach the growers to remove diseased fruits, insect fruits, deformed fruits and over-dense fruits in time to ensure that the fruits have sufficient nutrients and sufficient light, so that the quality of apples is better and the taste is better. Han Zhiqiang, the science and technology commissioner of Yiganqi Town, said.
In recent years, relying on its unique natural resource advantages, Aksu City has taken apple planting as a key industry and leading industry for rural revitalization, continuously improved the scale, quality, brand and efficiency of apple planting, and promoted the apple industry to achieve high yield, stable yield and excellent yield. At present, the crispy and delicious "rock candy heart" apples have become the "fruit of getting rich" for the masses, effectively boosting rural revitalization.
Patigul Abhidniazi, a senior engineer of the Aksu Forestry and Grassland Bureau, said: "The city's apple planting area is 139,500 mu, and we take strengthening the management of fruit thinning as an important measure to improve the quality of fruits. ”
Reporter: Repuhaiti Zhang Yunlong
Correspondents: Wan Zhibin, Patigul Abhidiniaz