In 2017, the pesticide use in agricultural production in Xinjiang region showed a significant downward trend compared with that in 2014, achieving the goal of “zero growth” of pesticide use for the first time.

According to Zhong Yanlong, director of the Plant Protection Station of the autonomous region, since 2015, the construction of a green prevention and control demonstration area and the construction of a special anti-corruption ruling team have been vigorously carried out throughout the district to promote the reduction and control of pesticides. The pesticide use in the region has been decreasing year by year, Green prevention and control area steadily improved. The prevention and control effect of green prevention and control in the whole region reached more than 90%, and the average annual output loss was 450,000 tons, which played an important role in the sustainable development of agriculture in the whole region.

Xinjiang takes the construction of demonstration zones as the lead, strengthens the construction of a green prevention and control demonstration area for major pests and diseases, and establishes green demonstration zones for pest and disease control and demonstration bases for new plant diseases and insect pests such as wheat, cotton, corn, facility agriculture and special horticulture, as well as experimental demonstration bases for new pesticides, , Promote the use of pesticides to reduce. At present, a total of 297 green prevention and control demonstration zones have been set up in the region, and 41 demonstration projects of new technologies and new products have been launched. A batch of demonstration technologies have been developed from a single technology into a green prevention and control system that integrates agricultural control, physical control and biological insecticide Technology combination of supporting technology. In the meantime, the whole district is speeding up the cultivation of a new type of business entity specialized in prevention and control of pests and diseases. Up to now, there are 1,783 specialized and unified anti-government service organizations in the region, with a daily operational capacity of 2.25 million mu and a marked increase in the capability of specialization in prevention and control.