Henan Cotton Farmers Are Reluctant To Sell Serious &Nbsp; &Nbsp;

Some of the enterprises can only be forced to stop production, and workers lie in the pile of cotton and sleep without work.

Cotton production in large counties can not buy cotton, many local cotton spinning enterprises have to go far to Xinjiang and other places to buy cotton, not only to spend more than 800 yuan per ton freight, and cotton prices are constantly rising.

Cotton prices have risen all the way, but the price of downstream cotton fabrics has not kept up with the increase of raw materials, which has greatly reduced the profit margins of enterprises. Some cotton spinning enterprises simply hoarding cotton seeds directly.

In an interview, the reporter learned that a cotton spinning enterprise in Taikang County of Henan entered a batch of cotton in the middle of this year, earning nearly 800 thousand in just a few months.

Taikang County, Zhoukou City, Henan

Taikang, Henan: most cotton growers lose their output

In the interview, our reporter also learned a strange phenomenon. Although cotton prices continued to rise this year, only a small number of cotton farmers made money.

In Taikang County, Zhoukou, Henan, the reporter learned that because of the low price of seed cotton in the previous two years and the lack of profit for planting cotton, many farmers reduced cotton planting area last year. Taikang County used to be the national high quality cotton base, and the highest cotton planting area reached nearly one million mu. However, the cotton planting area decreased to less than 180 thousand mu last year.

Farmer Wang Yuan planted 10 mu of cotton last year. After a year of hard work, he earned only 100 yuan per mu of cotton. So this year, he did not grow one mu of cotton.

Wang Yuan, a farmer in Dachang village, Chang Ying Town, Taikang City, Zhoukou, Henan Province: when planting seeds, fertilizer, agricultural film and artificial labor, it costs nearly 900 yuan. The cotton is sold, three yuan, more than one jin, more than 300 Jin, which is about 1000 yuan, so farmers have no profit.

Although most farmers did not earn money in this round of cotton price rise, there were exceptions. When cotton prices did not rise last year, farmers He Junjian increased cotton planting area. He planted 50 mu of cotton this year, an increase of 30 mu over last year.

He Junjian, a farmer in Dachang village, Chang Ying Town, Taikang, Zhoukou, Henan Province: (why did you increase 30 acres this year when you didn't get enough profit last year) because it is based on the news and the technicians who work on cotton. We often chat with each other. They say that according to the international and domestic forms, the area of cotton is gradually shrinking, and the price is likely to rise.

Last year, the price of seed cotton in Henan was about 3 yuan per catty, and He Junjian only made 5000 yuan. Now Henan seed cotton has risen to 5.2 yuan per catty, so He Junjian has made 55 thousand yuan more. Now cotton prices continue to rise, He Junjian said that it is not yet ready to ship at the moment.

He Junjian, farmer of Dachang village, Chang Ying Town, Taikang County, Zhoukou, Henan Province: look again, look at this trend, the price should go up, and also want to sell a high price.

Cotton weaving

Our reporter also learned in the interview that cotton prices rose this year, and Henan farmers' willingness to grow cotton next year was significantly improved.