Cotton Prices Slump Dezhou Cotton Farmers Encounter "Extremely Cold"

In November 24th, Zhang Xuewen, the village of Fu Jia Lou, Lu Quan Tun Town, Wucheng County, pulled out more than 10 mu of cotton and wood and planted wheat.

The same as Zhang Xuewen's family, there are dozens of villagers in the same village.

Cotton farmers: six yuan five just recovered the cost.

At 10:30 a.m. on the 24 day, Ma Xiuxi in the village of Fu Lou village peeled cotton peach in his yard, and the black half open cotton peach was stripped out of very poor cotton.

Ma Xiuxi said, stripping more than 8 hours a day, one day, it can only peel thirty or forty Jin of cotton.

The black cotton peach in the yard has been peeled for a week and has just finished 1/3.

Ma Xiuxi's husband, Zhao Xingchun, told reporters that the rainwater was heavy this summer and the first crop of cotton had not yet been finished.

The spade stripped cotton costs only 1/5 of the quality cotton.

This year, the quality of cotton is low and the output is small. Last year, the best cotton production in an acre area was more than 700 Jin, and the "spade" accounted for only 1/10.

This year, the best cotton is not more than 400 catties of a mu, and nearly 1/3 of the spades.

Zhao Xingchun has planted 30 mu.

This year, we can produce 300 Jin of cotton per mu, according to the day of November 24th.

Zhao Xingchun said that there were few people employed in their families, and there were 16 large cotton farmers in the village.

There are more spades this year. If a better cotton can be sold for 5.5 yuan / Jin, then "spades" will be sold for one yuan.

In the same village Fu Xuebin's home, the reporter saw cotton piled up like a hill full of houses.

More than 20 the inferior cotton stripped from the bag "spade" is stacked in the next room.

Fu Xuebin told reporters that their family planted more than 50 mu of cotton this year, and sold more than 1000 Jin for 6.5 yuan / Jin.

When the reporter asked why the price was not sold at 7.3 yuan / Jin, Fu Xuebin explained that at that time everyone was busy picking cotton, and there was no time to sell it.

In addition, the price was rising every day, and cotton growers combined to sell a good price when the price went up again.

Fu Xuebin told reporters that he made a rough calculation. In this year, when hired workers and all kinds of agricultural inputs were so high, they sold only 6.5 yuan per catty cotton.

On the morning of 24 morning, reporters visited more than 10 large cotton growers in the home village, and learned that about 90% cotton farmers did not sell cotton.

There are about more than 20 households in the family who weigh more than ten thousand pounds.

According to the calculation of 2200 acres of cotton in the whole village, no cotton sold in time is about 5 million pounds.

Farmers: seed cotton area begins to decrease

Once, the scene of people coming to pick up cotton was gone, and every household was picking up the remaining cotton bolls in their own yard.

Next year will not grow cotton seed, the price will not rise, become a home village, men and women, young and old.

These days, Zhao Guoqing, a village secretary, is also worried. Farmers often ask him whether the price will go up.

Zhao Guoqing also planted fifty or sixty mu of cotton at home. He also pays attention to the trend of cotton prices every day through the Internet and TV news.

"The price of cotton has changed so fast this year, it really hurts the cotton farmers.

Since then, many villagers have changed their cotton fields to wheat.

Some directly contracted out and went out to work.

But the reality of the village is that 2/3 of the salinized land is not suitable for food crops.

Facing the current cotton price trend, Zhao Guoqing scratched his head.

Zhao Guoqing said that cotton prices this year directly hurt the enthusiasm of cotton growers. Next year's cotton planting area will be reduced a lot.

At the west end of the village there are several small and medium enterprises engaged in glass fibre reinforced plastics. The odd jobs are seventy or eighty yuan a day. A little better skilled workers can get around 140 yuan a day, and many of the young workers in the village choose to work.

Cotton enterprises: big price changes dare not cotton.

The drop in cotton prices has also made many cotton mills uneasy.

In November 10th, cotton price was as high as 7.3 yuan / Jin, and cotton prices suddenly dropped in November 24th.

The sudden change of market made Mr. Zhang of the four women temple in Lu Quan Tun Town somewhat unprepared, and his cotton factory did not dare to collect cotton again, nor did he dare to sell cotton again.

These days, Mr. Zhang simply lives in Shandong Wei Qiao Textile Group, located in Zouping, Binzhou. She always pays attention to the ups and downs of cotton prices.

Mr. Zhang said that Shandong Wei Qiao Textile Group is the largest cotton textile enterprise in Asia.

Wei bridge rises, cotton prices rise, Wei bridge falls, and the whole country falls.

On the day of November 25th, when the cotton lint was reduced by 500 yuan per ton, the Wei Qiao textile group still had about more than 50 trucks carrying 30 tons per day pporting lint.

"A total of more than 300 tons of cotton were collected this year, which sold 100 tons in the early days when prices were high.

In November 11th, cotton prices began to slide, falling at a price of 500 yuan per ton per day. The cotton in the later period was 6.5 yuan / Jin, less than half a month, and it dropped to 5.5 yuan / Jin.

At present, cotton is not available, and enterprises are basically at a standstill.

Mr. Zhang told reporters.

Industry: cotton prices rise and fall hurt farmers

"In the whole country, the production is not only limited to our city. Due to the bad weather, Xinjiang, Hebei and other large cotton areas in China have suffered varying degrees of production reduction. On the contrary, with the rapid development of the textile industry, the pressure of cotton supply in China is increasing.

According to the prediction of Cotton Association of China, cotton production and demand gap is nearly 4 million tons this year.

In the face of the huge market gap, cotton prices are rising unstoppable.

At the same time, when the enterprises purchase cotton in succession, the domestic hot money is eyeing the profit space of cotton rising, and buying cotton and hoarding cotton in succession.

Ma Junkai, Secretary General of Dezhou Cotton Association, told reporters: "since September, the purchase price of seed cotton has been around 4.1 yuan / Jin since the new cotton market came into operation, reaching 6.5 yuan / kg at the end of October, and cotton prices continued to rise, reaching the peak in November 10th. The purchase price of four grade seed cotton was about 7.3 yuan / kg, and four grade lint sale price reached 32000 yuan / ton, which hit the highest price in history.

Lint prices rose 78% from early September, up 128% over the same period last year.

Cotton prices have risen fast and high for decades.

"November 10th became an important turning point in the cotton futures market. Cotton futures in the Zhengzhou mercantile exchange continued to plummet, while seed cotton purchase prices and lint prices began to decline like roller coaster.

On the 22 day, the purchase price of grade four seed cotton dropped to 5.5 yuan / kg, which was 1.7 yuan / Jin compared with 10 days.

In November 21st, the purchase price of Shandong Wei Qiao textile group was lowered by 800 yuan / ton again.

Wei bridge is known as the weathervane of the industry. In less than a month, it has cut down the purchase price of lint for many times.

Analysis of the industry, due to factors such as cotton production and other factors, China's cotton market gap still exists, so cotton prices will not fall sharply as in 2006, but in the scope of national regulation and reasonable operation.

As a result of cotton production reduction, cotton farmers are reluctant to sell their emotions, and cotton prices will be more likely to contuse cotton farmers' enthusiasm if they fall again, making cotton planting area down.

Cotton prices have risen too fast in the past few days, and there has been a virtual high. Of course, the price of lint cotton is less than 25000 yuan / ton after the reduction of cotton resources this year.

In the mad cotton price jump "tango", many cotton farmers in Dezhou just want to sell, hoping that cotton prices will rise and rise again, but little information about cotton price fluctuations.

Here, I hope farmers can pay more attention to market information and national policies so as to be in a favorable position in market changes.