Cotton Price "Roller Coaster" &Nbsp; Cotton Growers "Walking Tightrope"

"Cotton palm" is a new Internet word after "garlic you ruthless", "Ginger your army", "beans you play" and "Ping". The cotton market in October 2010 can be described as "Crazy".

In a short month, domestic cotton prices have jumped from 22684 yuan / ton in early October to 27066 yuan / ton in November 1, 2010, rising by more than 20% in the month, up 93% compared to last year, taking the Anhui river farm in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River as the example. In the middle and November of November, the local cotton prices soared to 28 thousand yuan / ton.

For a period of time, cotton prices have been substantially revised every day.

However, since November 13th, the cotton of Anhui river farm in the western suburbs of Anqing has started to "dive" from the highest price, "6 blocks 8", "6 blocks 7" and "6 blocks 5".

By the morning of November 26th, it had dropped to 5.2 yuan per catty. For a time, cotton farmers who had been reluctant to sell cotton were rushed to the local cotton purchasing enterprises for sale, and a long queue of queues had been lined up outside the factory. Many cotton farmers remained at the door late at night, and they were supposed to sell the goods on the spot.

Then, can the "cotton palm" of 2010 become a powerful promoter for the cotton growers in the 2011 to expand cotton production? How do cotton growers and cotton enterprises view the fluctuating cotton market? What ideas and suggestions do they have? Recently, the author made a survey at Anhui river farm.

"No night cotton" let

This year, the cotton farmers of the Three Gorges farm in Anhui river farm have planted 9 mu of cotton this year. He said: "this year's output is not good. The yield per unit area is only 300 catties, which is half less than that of last year."

It is understood that this summer rainstorm caused floods, the whole field of 20 thousand acres of cotton were generally affected, of which more than 4000 acres of crops.

Later, it was affected by the continuous low temperature and rainy weather in autumn, and the lack of light caused the phenomenon of rotten peach.

Although the farms took timely measures to fight against calamity, the output declined significantly.

According to the head of the Agricultural Department of the farm, in the normal year, cotton production per unit area is about 250 kilograms, and the high yield field reaches more than 300 kilograms, and this year the average yield per unit area is only 150 kilograms.

"Cotton prices fluctuate. Our mood is falling together. We can't sleep well at night."

Fang Xiangdong expressed concern that "there are still 100 Jin (MU) confiscated in the field. I wonder if the next price is going up or not?"

A local agricultural technician, who modeled on the new words of the Internet, described the cotton as a "no night cotton".

Chen Qi, a major grain producer in the red flag farm, has always been a big cotton farmer. He began to pform last year. He calculated the cost of planting cotton: the cost of planting cotton is too high. The cost of fertilizer, pesticide and seed per mu is eight hundred or nine hundred yuan, and cotton picking is much more artificial. Now the wages are rising again, and the cost of a job is less than 60 yuan, like the price of this year, and the efficiency of Mu is not more than 1000 yuan.

Grain is more cost-effective, all mechanized, labor-saving and labor-saving, large scale production has scale benefit.

In the third place, where the direction east is located, in recent years, many cotton growers have converted to grow vegetables, and about more than 1000 mu of cotton fields have been converted into vegetable bases.

Asked whether he will grow cotton next year, Fang Xiangdong hesitated. He said: "although the price of cotton is astonishing this year, it still makes people feel unrealistic and feels that the cotton market is like the stock market. The risk is too great.

In addition, cotton prices rise, fertilizer, pesticides and other agricultural materials are also rising prices, next year's cotton is not good! "

Cotton palm hits cotton enterprises soft rib directly

"This year, cotton prices have been refreshed for 10 years, and now they are dropping from 6 to 8 yuan per catty to 5 yuan, 2, which is very mysterious. It feels like walking on the wire. After decades of cotton management, it has never met this year's situation."

Faced with this year's "cotton palm", a local cotton acquisition company Chen boss sent such a feeling.

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This enterprise was originally a farm old brand cotton enterprise. After being restructured, it was operated by the cotton management station, and the annual purchase fund was provided by the agricultural development bank. Therefore, this year, the enterprise can still run normally under the high price of cotton.

However, some small private enterprises have been pushed down by the "cotton palm". Because of the problem of purchasing funds, they have to "cotton" sigh, some enterprises have to close down, and there is a strong contrast with the noisy scene of horses and horses in front of them.

Cotton Traders in recent years are eager to try out cotton at the beginning of this year.

Chen boss said that in recent years, global cotton demand continued to grow, while cotton planting area decreased, resulting in supply and demand contradictions, which is the main reason for the rise in cotton prices.

The rise of cotton prices has increased the production cost of cotton processing plants; affected by climate, short seed cotton and poor maturity, resulting in a decline in the quality of lint cotton. Therefore, the profit margins of cotton enterprises have been greatly reduced, and some have even suffered losses, which also have a great impact on downstream textile enterprises, and a number of small and medium-sized enterprises will be eliminated.

Calls for more strong cotton benefiting policies

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The excessive rise of cotton prices has attracted the attention of relevant ministries and commissions.

In October 2010, the national development and Reform Commission convened a joint meeting on cotton macro regulation and control to analyze the cotton situation and study the measures to stabilize the cotton market.

It is requested that the relevant departments should make joint efforts in accordance with their respective division of labor, consolidate market order, crack down on malicious speculation and other acts of disrupting market order, and do other regulatory plans at the same time. At present, the hand of regulation is playing a role.

The people called for stabilizing the cotton planting area and increasing the enthusiasm of cotton producers. The government should take relevant policies into consideration in the long run, further increase the intensity of strong cotton and benefit farmers, and introduce the cotton purchase and protection price policy as soon as possible, and raise all kinds of cotton subsidy standards.

As a cotton producing area, more efforts should be made to promote cotton production through science and technology, actively promote good seed laws, accelerate the industrialization of cotton seeds, combine cotton farmers, cotton bases and cotton enterprises together, and grasp cotton as well as grain production, so as to greatly enhance the enthusiasm of cotton growers to expand cotton production, and at the same time maintain the safety of cotton industry and downstream textile industry.