In June, the weather in most cotton areas of Xinjiang was good, and the daytime temperature was maintained at 25-35 degrees, which is conducive to the rapid growth of cotton. At the end of the month, the number of flowering cotton plants has increased significantly, and the current height of cotton plants has reached 60-70 cm.

　　 Due to the postponement of the overall planting period this year, unfavorable weather during the planting stage, and the apparently slow growth of replanted cotton, it is expected that the topping time in most areas of Xinjiang this year will be concentrated around July 10, which is one week later than previous years. As far as cotton farmers are concerned, cotton topping has always insisted that "the branches are not waiting for the time and the branches are not waiting for the time." Therefore, since mid-June, many growers have strengthened field management to try to make up for the gap in early growth.

　　 This year, cotton in some areas of northern Xinjiang was mainly affected by severe rain, snow, low temperature and other disastrous weather during the planting period, resulting in frostbite and freezing death of cotton seedlings unearthed just after planting, and cotton farmers were forced to replant or replant. The early disaster areas in northern Xinjiang were mainly concentrated in Kuitun, Shawan, Hami and other places. The impact of Bole and Wusu was relatively small, but it benefited from the rapid rise in temperature after late May and the timely application of pesticides to prevent aphids, cotton bollworm and Red spiders and other diseases and insect pests, while strengthening the supplement of water and fertilizer to promote the vegetative growth and reproductive growth of cotton, currently there are 5-7 fruit branches of reseeded cotton, which is only 1-2 fruit branches behind unaffected cotton.

　　 This year, many places in the Aksu and Kashgar areas of southern Xinjiang suffered continuous heavy rainfall and sandstorms during the planting period, which caused soil compaction in cotton fields and breakage of cotton seedlings. In some areas, repeated reseeding was carried out, so the overall growth progress was slow.

　　 Cotton farmers in many places said that this year's topping work can only be adjusted flexibly according to the actual situation, and will not blindly adopt the rule of "when the branches are not waiting, when the branches are not waiting". For the unaffected cotton, the topping will be carried out according to the normal schedule, but for the obviously slower cotton plants, we will continue to strengthen the water and fertilizer management to promote the growth to the topping standard. The delayed topping of cotton will be again appropriately relaxed during the final harvest and defoliation to ensure the quality and yield goals.