Anhui: Rainy Weather Affects Cotton Picking And Selling

Affected by the cold air, Anhui has been mostly rainy for most of the recent time. Prolonged low temperature and low temperature seriously affect the normal cotton bolting, picking and selling. Up to now, the overall picking rate in Anhui is about 40%, because cotton prices are much higher than in previous years. Cotton traders are more active in home purchase, and cotton farmers can sell properly. Cotton enterprises continue to buy in rainy weather, and the sale of new cotton is about 30%. Overall, the picking and sale of new cotton is lower than 10-15% in previous years.

Excessive rainy days not only affect cotton output and grade, but also affect. cotton In the air drying, the moisture content of cotton seeds purchased from different places is normal between 15-20. At present, the average price of the 4 grade seed cotton in Anhui is 5.45 yuan / jin (38 of lint, 16 of water), and the acquisition range is 5.2-5.3 yuan / jin (37 of clothing, 17-20 of water), and the cost of folding cotton is over 23000. Due to excessive moisture content of seed cotton, coupled with the current weather has been rainy weather, although many enterprises seed cotton purchase amount has reached several million jin, but Anhui new cotton large-scale acquisition has not yet started, it is expected that this month cotton processing will be launched in full.

At present, the main body of cotton seed sale in Anhui is cotton traders at all levels. Seed cotton resources Hanging area flow has become a common phenomenon. Cotton mixed and other mixed grades are more serious, water is seriously high, and resource quality is poor. At the present stage, most of the seed cotton acquisitions are grade 4 cotton and 5 grade and below. In addition, the purchase price of cotton is higher at present, which is much higher than that of the agricultural development bank.

Since the national day, driven by the soaring market of Zheng cotton and matchmaker, the purchasing strength of textile enterprises has been strengthened. Lint spot The price has accelerated. At present, Anhui's grade 3 lint is about 24200 yuan / ton (public weight, delivery), 4 cotton 23500 yuan / ton, 5 cotton 22000 yuan / ton, compared with the increase of 2200 yuan / ton before the festival.