In Xinjiang, the last 47,000 mu of cotton was harvested due to strong dust weather.

Xinjiang Qiemo County suffered a strong sandstorm process in recent days, with a maximum wind force of 8 or more and an instantaneous wind speed of 18m/s.

The strong sandstorm process caused the local cotton disaster area to reach 59,000 mu, of which 4.7 million mu of cotton was harvested, and the area affected by red dates reached 67,000 mu, of which 65,000 mu of red dates and jujube flowers were hanging off in different degrees. The wind disaster caused direct economic losses to agriculture of 35.61 million yuan.

After the disaster, the county party committee and county government organized agriculture, forestry, civil affairs, insurance companies and other departments to form three investigation teams to understand the situation of crops in rural areas and start production self-help plans. In order to seize agricultural time and minimize losses from disasters, the county's agriculture and forestry departments guide farmers to rob, replant and replant seeds and carry out production self-help. The seed department of the county timely dispatched seeds, the agricultural machinery department transferred agricultural machinery, and secured seeds and machinery required for self-help. The county agricultural technology department dispatched more than 100 technical personnel to provide technical guidance and services to the affected farmers.

At present, 150 tons of early maturing cotton seeds and 75 tons of corn seeds have been stocked. County insurance companies also actively dealt with cotton claims, and party and party cadres of county and township party committee governments also went deep into the affected peasants' homes to do a good job of appeasing and interpreting work, straightening out the sentiments of the people.

At present, the affected cotton crops have been turned over 21,900 acres, replanted 1.56 million acres, and 210 acres of corn have been sown. It is expected that the entire production self-help work will end on June 10.