Xinjiang 134 Regiment Hail Attack: 15 Thousand Acres Of Cotton Affected

At 20:40 PM -45 on August 16th, a rare hailstorm hit 15 thousand acres of cotton in the eight divisions of the Xinjiang production and Construction Corps, the 134 regiment, the twenty-one company, the twenty-two company, the twenty-three company and the twenty-six company. Maximum hail The diameter is about 3 centimeters. cotton field Everywhere, cotton leaves were smashed into several petals and cotton bolls were destroyed.

Around 20:20 p.m. on August 16th, the clouds rolled over the 134 regiment, and then the rain fell and the hail of the bean descended. However, 7 hail suppression antiaircraft guns and 9 hail suppression Rockets have been prepared for hail suppression. They carried out uninterrupted operations in a timely manner, launched 640 hail shells and 52 rockets, effectively prevented the invasion of heavy hail. However, the strong weather still caused the hail attack on the 15 thousand mu of the twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-three and twenty-six companies of the regiment in.

At 7 o'clock on the morning of August 17th, He Fuqiang, deputy secretary of the Party committee and political commissar of the regiment, led the leader of production department and Wei Jianchang, manager of China Life Insurance Company, Shihezi insurance company. Disaster The company looked at the disaster, grasps the disaster situation, and instructs the units to carry out production and self rescue. It also requires that the cotton fields with serious disasters should pay close attention to drip irrigation and topdressing, restore the function of leaf light and function, and minimize the losses by self-help. The company should cooperate with the investigation of the disaster situation and the compensation work of the disaster victims by Shihezi Xia Ye Di insurance branch of China life insurance company.

According to preliminary statistics, the hail caused twenty-one mu, twenty-two Lian, twenty-three Lian and twenty-six Lian of the regiment's 15 thousand mu of cotton to be affected. The area affected by heavy rainfall was 5000 mu, with a moderate disaster area of 5000 mu and a disaster area of 5000 mu, and the direct economic loss was about 5 million yuan.