CHINA-XINJIANG-YULI-COTTON-SPRING PLOUGHING (CN)

CHINA-XINJIANG-YULI-COTTON-SPRING PLOUGHING (CN)

(230427) -- YULI, April 27, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Arkin Reyim (R) holding a birthday cake poses with his wife to celebrate his 51st birthday in the Bax Mali Village of Yuli County, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, April 17, 2023. Arkin Reyim is a 51-year-old cotton farmer with more than 300 mu (20 hectares) of cotton fields in the Bax Mali Village of Yuli County in Xinjiang. Arkin's courage and unique vision has prompted him to start growing cotton in 2004 when he got married with his wife Hasiyat Kasim. Since then, Arkin has devoted himself into the cultivation of cotton for over 10 years, thus making him an experienced cotton grower in the county. In this year, Arkin bought the Beidou navigation system with 8,000 yuan (about 1155.5 U.S. dollars) to have it installed into his tractor, as a way to mechanise the growing process and improve efficiencies. Yuli County in Xinjiang is suitable for the growing of cotton due to its unique natural conditions. It has become an important commo

CHINA-XINJIANG-YULI-COTTON-SPRING PLOUGHING (CN)

CHINA-XINJIANG-YULI-COTTON-SPRING PLOUGHING (CN)

(230427) -- YULI, April 27, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Arkin Reyim (R) holding a birthday cake poses with his wife to celebrate his 51st birthday in the Bax Mali Village of Yuli County, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, April 17, 2023. Arkin Reyim is a 51-year-old cotton farmer with more than 300 mu (20 hectares) of cotton fields in the Bax Mali Village of Yuli County in Xinjiang. Arkin's courage and unique vision has prompted him to start growing cotton in 2004 when he got married with his wife Hasiyat Kasim. Since then, Arkin has devoted himself into the cultivation of cotton for over 10 years, thus making him an experienced cotton grower in the county. In this year, Arkin bought the Beidou navigation system with 8,000 yuan (about 1155.5 U.S. dollars) to have it installed into his tractor, as a way to mechanise the growing process and improve efficiencies. Yuli County in Xinjiang is suitable for the growing of cotton due to its unique natural conditions. It has become an important commo

Ukrainian grains greenlighted to pass through Poland amid import ban

STORY: Ukrainian grains greenlighted to pass through Poland amid import ban DATELINE: April 23, 2023 LENGTH: 00:03:07 LOCATION: Warsaw CATEGORY: POLITICS/SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of grains 2. various of convoy departing from the Polish-Ukrainian border crossing in Dorohusk 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (Polish): JUSTYNA PASIECZYNSKA, Press secretary of the Head of the National Revenue Administration 3. various of Polish and Ukrainian government officials 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Polish): ROBERT TELUS, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development of Poland 5. various of farmers protesting in Szczecin STORYLINE: Poland resumed transit of Ukrainian grains through its border on Friday, as the first convoy carrying grains, eggs and corn departed from the Polish-Ukrainian border in the Lublin region to the Netherlands. SOUNDBITE 1 (Polish): JUSTYNA PASIECZYNSKA, Press secretary of the Head of the National Revenue Administration "The first transport that left the border crossing in Dorohusk is headed for the Netherlands. The commo