Textile Enterprises In Shandong Increase Their Use Of Natural Fibers

There have been several continuous heavy rains since August and have not been very hot.

The rainy weather this summer is considered the main inducement of the current price increase.

"Prolonged rainy weather will definitely have a significant impact on cotton production."

Dong Yuchang, President of Xiajin Cotton Association, told reporters that the key period of cotton flowering and Bolling production is now. The short time of flooding and sunshine is very harmful to cotton growth.

"From the current situation, the disaster area of cotton fields in Dezhou has reached 300 thousand mu, with a serious disaster of 100 thousand mu, especially in Xiajin and Yucheng."

Ma Junkai, Secretary General of Dezhou Cotton Association, said.

Cotton is expected to cause direct cotton

"Rainfall in early September of last year caused about 20% reduction in cotton production in Dezhou. The heavy rainfall this time will lead to a reduction of more than 20% of cotton yield this year."

Ma Junkai worried that at present, cotton farmers' psychological price of seed cotton is rising as cotton production decreases.

"This year's new seed cotton purchase price per catty is expected to reach about 5 yuan."

Dong Yuchang said that in July this year, the purchase price of seed cotton has reached a maximum of 4.2 yuan / Jin.

The decline of cotton planting area in China is also one of the factors that uplink cotton prices.

Ma Junkai told reporters that the cotton planting area of Dezhou was 2 million 900 thousand mu the year before last, and it dropped to 2 million 300 thousand mu last year, only 1 million 500 thousand mu this year.

The cotton planting area of our province has been reduced by about 5% this year.

"Compared with grain and other cash crops, the yield of cotton is less, and the subsidy of grain and other crops is much higher than that of cotton."

According to statistics, with the increasing price of wheat, corn, rice and other grain crops, the planting area of cotton has been decreasing, and the planting area has decreased by 14 million mu in two years.

Cotton planting area has been reduced, but domestic demand for cotton has been increasing.

Ma Junkai said that cotton production in China was about 6 million 800 thousand tons last year, and the demand was between 10 million and 10 million 500 thousand tons.

According to Qingdao customs data, in the first 7 months of this year, Shandong Port imported 739 thousand tons of cotton, valued at $1 billion 310 million, and the average import price was $1776 per ton.

Among them, the average import price reached 1912 US dollars / ton in July, up 44.1% compared with the same period last year, rising 3.5% compared with the same period, and continuing to refresh the highest level since January 2003.

Reporters in the Ji'nan Knitting wholesale market - Jiangjiang mall visited to understand that with the high price of cotton, socks have largely increased prices.

A surnamed dealer told reporters that some socks had gone up a few cents, and some even had gone up by a dollar.

Zhang Qingwei, Deputy Secretary General of Ji'nan textile and garment industry association, is also a sailor of Shandong.

"Cotton prices rose by about 40%, extending to the downstream textile and clothing industry prices will rise by 15%-20%."

Ma Junkai said that under such circumstances, the equipment and backward technology SMEs will be very unhappy in their life. "This is also a good opportunity to eliminate backward production capacity, reduce and upgrade."

Zhang Qingwei said that the company is developing products with high technology content to deal with high cotton prices, reduce dependence on cotton and increase the consumption of non cotton fibers and eco-friendly fibers.

It is understood that some enterprises in the province, such as Dezhou Huayuan technology, Hengfeng textile and Lingxian County Baoding textile, have increased the application and product development of new fibers such as Tencel, modal, milk fiber, bamboo fiber, corn fiber and cashmere, silk and other animal fibers, and the proportion of non cotton fibers increased gradually.