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Cotton growing model village gradually disappearing

Li Xiuli, a farmer breeder in the Seven Mile Camp Town of Xinxiang City, Henan, looks very green with the red bud cotton. Not far from the experimental field stands a white sculpture of Mao Zedong.

In 1958, cotton planting in Xinxiang was well known throughout the country. Mao Zedong visited here and praised cotton for planting well. The local sense of glory was dedicated to commemorate the statue of Mao Zedong.

Today's Seven Mile Camp, except Li Xiuli's experimental field, has rarely seen cotton in the surrounding farmland.

Li Xiuli, who has not been to a regular university but bred 8 new cotton varieties, told the first financial daily: "before and after 1998, after the popularity of genetically modified insect resistant cotton, more than 10 thousand acres of arable land in the whole village, the cotton planting area once reached 8000-9000 acres, and now the cotton planting area in the village has been reduced to only more than 1000 mu due to the reduction of grain and cotton price difference."

Insiders said that Henan is one of the main cotton producing areas in China. The cotton planting area in the whole province has reached 10 million mu at the most, and now it is only 2 million -300 mu.

In Zhu Chen Village, Lujiang County, Anhui, Zhao Yinsheng, 54, planted 14 mu of cotton in 2008, and reduced it to 9 mu in 2009. This year only planted 5 mu.

In Zhu Chen Village, the basic image of the reporter is the leaf green rice, while the dark green leaves are Interplanted in the paddy field.

Wang Xiaojian, general manager of Lujiang Seed Co., Ltd. said: "Lujiang's cotton planting area is about 80 thousand mu this year, less than 30 thousand -4 mu in previous years."

Industry researchers said that around 1984, the cotton planting area in the whole country once reached 120 million mu. In recent years, the cotton planting area has decreased year by year, and now it is reduced to about 75 million mu.

National Bureau of statistics data show that in 2007 the national cotton output 7 million 600 thousand tons, in 2008 the annual cotton production reduced to 7 million 500 thousand tons, in 2009 further reduced to 6 million 400 thousand tons; from the cotton planting area, according to the China Cotton Association data, 2007-2009 years, the national cotton planting area successively is 88 million 891 thousand and 500 mu, 86 million 311 thousand and 500 mu, 74 million 250 thousand mu, 2009 cotton planting area compared with 2007, reduced by more than 14 million acres.

Researchers say cotton planting area is more than 80 million acres in the safety zone.

Hard to serve cotton

Chinese farmers are abandoning cotton planting because of rural hollowing.

Lv Yanhu, a 63 year old cotton farmer in the Seven Mile Camp Town, told reporters: "cotton is difficult to serve. From April to October every year, when fertilizer and medicine are not stopped, it takes time and effort.

Lv Yanhu's complaint is similar to that of Zhao Yinsheng, a 54 year old cotton grower in Anhui province. Zhao Yinsheng said, "it takes 25 jobs to plant cotton. One day is a job, and only 5 jobs are done in rice. My family used to grow 14 mu of cotton. At that time, my wife could help me. Now that I have grandchildren, my wife needs to bring children. I can't help myself, but I can only grow 5 acres of rice."

Wang Xiaojian also told reporters that now the rural labor force is 50-60 years old, or women and children, like the outdoor weather of nearly 40 degrees Celsius in early August, cotton farmers also get the cotton seedlings. If they do not see them one day, they may get pests, and the elderly women will not be able to eat. Cotton harvest can only be picked by hand, unlike wheat and corn, which can be mechanized.

Lv Yanhu said that the second reason farmers are unwilling to grow cotton is that they grow more and more efficiently.

This year, the prices of rice, wheat and corn rose sharply compared with that of last year. Taking wheat as an example, the purchase price was 1 yuan per catty, at least 0.1 yuan higher than last year. Lv Yanhu said that his family had 4 acres of land and used to grow cotton. In addition to the 4 mu land of his family in 2009, he also rented 8 mu of land. However, only 2 acres of cotton were planted this year, and the rest was mainly wheat and onion.

Lv Yanhu said that this year's net income of wheat per mu is about 600 yuan, and the onion can yield 8000-10000 Jin per mu. The price has risen from 0.3 yuan per kilogram this year to 0.6 yuan per catty. The net income of onion per mu is still more than that of wheat. According to the price of 3 yuan per cotton seed cotton per kilogram, the sale of 2 acres of cotton flower is just able to break even.