Investigation On Cotton Planting Area And Seedling Situation In 2010

Project commitment: Cotton Association of China Cotton Association, Xinjiang Huatai Cotton Professional Cooperative

Monitoring objects: 13 cotton producing provinces, cities and districts, 2476 cotton growers.

In 5-6 2010,

According to the weighted average of cotton planting area of cotton farmers surveyed, the whole country in 2010

In the early May, the temperature of the the Yellow River River Basin was low, and the effective rainfall was less. The cotton growing in the wheat field was not vigorous, and there was a slight death phenomenon. However, the late precipitation increased, the air temperature picked up rapidly, and the seedlings were better at the end of the month. Some cotton farmers had watered the first water.

Among the surveyed cotton farmers, 36% thought the seedlings were better, 26 percentage points lower than the same period last year, and 41.4% thought the seedlings were poor, which increased 26.4 percentage points over the previous year. Hebei and Shanxi were relatively good, while Tianjin and Shaanxi were the worst.

Affected by low temperature during sowing period, the growth period of cotton was delayed by 7 days compared with that of last year, and the seedling age was 2-3 fewer than that of last year. Only 6-8 of the true leaves appeared at the end of the month, accounting for 33.1%, representing a decrease of 26.9 percentage points compared with the same period last year.

The development of cotton in Shaanxi and Shanxi provinces is faster than that in the provinces, and more than 70% of them reach 6-8 true leaves. Shandong and Henan are the slowest, and only 23% of them reach 6-8 true leaves.

The incidence of diseases and insect pests is generally lighter, but the red spider is more dangerous.

The cotton farmers surveyed 66.9% considered the disease to be lighter. 73.6% thought the pest was lighter, which increased by 21.9 and 38.6 percentage points respectively over the same period last year. The diseases in Shanxi, Henan and Hebei were lighter, Shaanxi diseases were relatively heavy, and the pests in Shanxi, Shaanxi and Tianjin were lighter, and the pests in Hebei were slightly heavier.

The total sowing and pplanting progress of the Yangtze River Valley is 87.9%, and the cotton is expected to be pplanted around June 5th after the oil, and the cotton will be pplanted after about June 15th.

Among them, the pplanting of Jiangxi has basically ended, and Hunan and Anhui are drawing to a close. Hubei and Jiangsu are slow in progress.

In the early May, the area continued to rain and litter. Cotton sowing and pplanting were postponed, but it had little impact on the area. Only a small number of low-lying areas were changed to rice. Later, with the weather improved, cotton farmers scramble for planting and sowing. In May, cotton planting intention decreased by 0.42 percentage points from last month, an increase of 10.4 percentage points over the previous year.

In the same month, the Yangtze River Basin experienced large-scale and long time rainfall events. The soil was too wet and light was insufficient. Some farmland had waterlogging disasters. The adverse effects of rape harvesting and drying affected the pplanting progress of cotton, and the growth of cotton seedlings was weaker.

Among the surveyed cotton farmers, 20.8% thought the seedlings were better, 54.2 percentage points lower than the same period last year, and 55.9% thought the seedlings were poor, which increased 45.9 percentage points over the previous year, of which Jiangxi was slightly better and Hubei was the worst.

Affected by the weather, cotton seedlings grew slowly, the growth period was postponed for 10 days, and the seedling age was 2-4 fewer than the last year. At the end of the month, only 6-8 of the 6-8 true leaves of cotton farmers were investigated, representing a decrease of 26.1 percentage points compared with the same period last year.

In Jiangxi and Hunan provinces, the development of cotton in Hubei and Jiangsu was faster than that in the provinces, and 6-8 of the true leaves reached 30%. The slowest in Jiangsu and Jiangsu, only 6-8 of the true leaves were found.

The occurrence of Anthracnose and Damping off is heavier and aphid is more frequent. The occurrence time of the bug is earlier than that of last year, but it is still lighter than last year.

67% and 69.8% of the surveyed cotton farmers believed that diseases and insect pests were lighter, 4.8 and 3 percentage points increased respectively compared with the same period last year. Among them, diseases in Anhui and Jiangxi were lighter, diseases in Hubei were relatively heavy, pests in Jiangsu and Jiangxi were lighter, and the pests of Hunan and Hubei were slightly heavier.

The cotton planting in Xinjiang cotton area was completed, and the area was basically flat with the survey last month, a decrease of 3.2% compared with last year.

The emergence period was 20 days in April 20th -5, where the area was 10 days earlier than that of the regiment. In May, the temperature gradually increased, but the fluctuation was large. There was a large range of rain and snow in the middle of the year, which had a certain effect on the emergence of cotton.

The overall emergence rate was 88%, of which 89.4% were local and 86.6% were Corps.

Due to late planting in North Xinjiang, the growth was slightly worse than that in the southern Xinjiang, and there were less than 1-2 pieces of true leaf.

During the period of cotton sowing and seedling emergence, there were many adverse weather in Xinjiang, which caused disaster in some areas from low temperature, rain, drought and water shortage to windy sand and dust.

Among them, root rot and dead seedlings appeared in some cotton fields in Turpan, Bazhou, Akesu, Kashi, Hotan and so on.

According to statistics from the surveyed households, 8.1% of cotton fields in Xinjiang were subject to different degrees of disasters, including 11.5% of local units and 4.6% of corps.

However, since late May, the continuous high temperature in Xinjiang area is very conducive to cotton growth. The overall growth is basically the same as that of last year.

At the same time, the cost of planting in Xinjiang has increased significantly this year. The wages of employees are generally around 100 yuan / day. The peak period reaches 140 yuan / day. In addition, the machine cost and production data are higher than in previous years. The seed cotton cost is estimated to be over 5.5 yuan / kg, and cotton farmers' expectations for this year's price reach 6.6 yuan / kg.