Shandong Gaoqing: Cotton Planting Area Increased By &Nbsp; Cotton Farmers Worry About Cotton Price Fall.

Spring plowing Spring sowing In the busy season, there are "100 kilograms nationwide". lint County, "Gaoqing County, Shandong Province," was once cold. cotton Now it is "hot" again. Cotton farmers can be seen everywhere in agricultural supermarket and field. Be busy Figure. Recently, I interviewed several cotton farmers to find out their cotton planting aspirations.

Cotton prices can no longer ride "roller coaster".

From the autumn of 2010, when the scale was 5.2 yuan, it reached the highest level of 6.6 yuan and fell to 5 yuan a year ago. Cotton price Ups and downs like a roller coaster. "Cotton is a price per day, but it will rise for a while. It is the key to increase income when we grasp the right time, but it is too difficult for our farmers to get accurate market information." Li Wenwen, who planted more than 50 acres of cotton fields in the town of Chang Fang, Liu Fang village, said.

In 2010, Li Wenwen collected nearly 9 tons of cotton and sold it three times, catching up only once. price 。 "Now there are nearly 1 tons of cotton in the house, and I want to wait for a high price. After the Spring Festival, cotton prices have been maintained at over 6 yuan, and it seems to be stable, so I am ready to do more in 2011.

In Gaoqing, there are a handful of peasants who hold the idea of Li Wenwen. As the cotton price goes, the cotton planting area in the county and its surrounding areas will naturally increase. According to the staff of the cotton production office of Gaoqing County, in 2011, the county was expected to grow 130 thousand mu of cotton and 85 thousand mu in 2010.

But Li Wenwen is also worried: "in the spring of 2010, the input of one mu of cotton fields is 200 yuan more than that of 2010. Don't look at the cotton price is very high now. I'm not sure that it will fall after autumn. " They hope cotton prices will no longer be "roller coaster".

When cotton seeds are managed, can they be mechanized?

"In 2010, for example, the cost of planting an acre of cotton is 540 yuan, 30 workers are invested, and the income is 2700 yuan. Planting cotton is more than 700 yuan per mu. However, the degree of mechanization of grain is high, and grain farmers can make up for it by going out to work. Nowadays, farmers are becoming more and more abacus in farming.