Advantages and disadvantages of Xinjiang's climate characteristics to agriculture

Professor: The melons and fruits in Xinjiang are especially sweet and brightly colored. This is because Xinjiang has enough heat in summer. Because of the lack of clouds and precipitation in the air, the daytime light is strong, which is beneficial to the coloring of fruits and vegetables, and at the same time, the photosynthesis is strong during the day, which can accumulate a lot of sugar. At night, the temperature drops rapidly, the temperature is low, and the respiration of crops is weak, which also reduces the consumption of sugar accumulated during the day. Therefore, due to the large temperature difference between day and night, fruits and vegetables in Xinjiang are particularly sweet. Similarly, Xinjiang has become an important long-staple cotton producing area in China because of its rich light and heat resources, scarce precipitation and relatively stable irrigation water sources.

Disadvantages: A large amount of evaporation caused by climate drought leads to a large-scale spread of desert.