In major cotton-growing countries (such as India, Texas in the United States, and Xinjiang in China), the handling links from field picking to warehouse storage often trouble farmers — tractors are bulky and hard to turn around, carts leak cotton and consume manpower, and manual stacking is error-prone... The traditional combination of "tractors + carts + manual labor" is not only time-consuming and labor-intensive, but may also cause losses due to cotton lint adhesion and cotton bale damage. However, an Agricultural Handling Forklift can connect the key nodes of the entire cotton industry chain, directly improving efficiency by 50%.
Picking period: Cotton bale handling, "one fork to get it done" without straining the waist
Lao Zhang, a cotton farmer in Xinjiang, once calculated: during the peak picking period, 100 mu of land produces 800 cotton bales (each about 200kg) per day. Transporting with tractors requires 10 round trips per vehicle, and cart handling requires 4 workers to work continuously for 12 hours; while an Agricultural Handling Forklift equipped with adjustable-height forks (flexibly lifting from 1.2-2.5 meters) can pick up 4-5 cotton bales at a time, requiring only 2 round trips per vehicle from the field to the ground, and reducing manual labor from 4 people to 1 person — the efficiency during the picking period is increased by 60%, and the waist injury rate is reduced by 90%.
Ginning period: Seed cotton transportation, "no cotton adhesion" is really worry-free
In ginning workshops, seed cotton has high humidity and fine lint, and traditional carts or flatbed trucks are prone to sticking cotton. After each trip, they have to be scraped with shovels and rinsed with water, delaying 20 minutes per vehicle. The forks of Agricultural Handling Forklift are specially designed: the surface is smooth without dead angles + anti-stick coating, so cotton lint falls off with a shake; some models are also equipped with "automatic tapping devices" that lightly shake the forks during unloading, completely eliminating the "trouble of cotton adhesion". A field test by a ginning factory in India shows: after switching to Agricultural Handling Forklift, the daily seed cotton processing capacity increased from 12 tons to 18 tons, and the cleaning labor cost was cut in half.
Storage period: Lint cotton stacking, "precision + space saving" double harvest
Lint cotton is fluffy and light but takes up space. Traditional manual stacking is easy to loosen and hard to count, and the warehouse utilization rate is often less than 60%. Agricultural Handling Forklift combined with storage accessories (such as side shifters, pallet clamps) can accurately stack lint cotton to a height of 2.8 meters (traditional manual stacking is only 1.5 meters), and the weight error of each stack is less than 2%; more importantly, the forklift can directly connect to AGV or three-dimensional shelves to realize the integration of "handling - stacking - access" — after the transformation of a cotton merchant in Texas, the warehouse area remains the same, the storage capacity is increased by 80%, and the inventory time is shortened from 3 days to half a day.
From the field to the warehouse, Agricultural Handling Forklift covers the core handling needs of the entire cotton industry chain with "one machine, multiple functions": improving efficiency during the picking period, saving worry during the ginning period, and saving space during the storage period. For farmers, it is not only a "handling tool" but also a "full industry chain housekeeper" for reducing costs and increasing efficiency.
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