Xinjiang: When Cotton Harvest Is &Nbsp, We Should Increase Revenue In A Multi Pronged Way.

High prices are hard to find.

This year, big cotton producing counties

Awati county is the national high quality long staple cotton production base. The whole county grows 1 million 150 thousand mu of cotton, and the cotton income accounts for about half of the income of farmers and herdsmen.

With the advent of the cotton picking season, some cotton growers want to pick up the cotton in the field as soon as possible and sell them at a good price.

Although picking prices have gone up and up again, picking up florist is not easy to find, which can damage some cotton farmers.

At present, the cost of picking flowers has exceeded the mark of two yuan per kilogram, and it can be eaten and wrapped.

In September 14th, the reporter saw a few cotton pickers in the cotton field of Cai Ruiqing, a cotton farmer in the village of jade village in Awati.

Cai Ruiqing looked at the large piece of cotton for a while and was very anxious. He was afraid that with the gradual cold weather and frost approaching, cotton would fall at any time.

Cai Ruiqing planted 300 mu of cotton this year. The most difficult thing is to pick up the florist. It is difficult to find flowers. Only 300 dozen of them are picking up flower workers.

In the village of tvk Kapp, a reporter saw a 400 - Mu cotton farmer, Yimin Yat Zi Kami.

Speaking of the cotton market this year, Yimin yyzi was somewhat disappointed. He said that cotton sold at a maximum price of 16 yuan per kilogram last year. The cost of planting this year is obviously higher than that of last year, and the output is also very high, but the price is much lower than that of last year.

But let him feel very pleased that the county in recent years to adjust the industrial structure in a timely manner, and vigorously develop jujube, walnut and other fruit industry, this year, he has more than 170 acres of land is cotton intercropping, if the market price of cotton is stable, this year can still have a good harvest, even if the cotton price minor, also can guarantee that there is no loss.

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Tuiniszi mu Tubai is a farmer in the qalick farm. There are 190 mu of cotton in the family. When it comes to the cotton growth this year, tujisi mu Tubai is not happy.

"Better than last year!"

The output is definitely higher than last year, but what worries me is that the flower picker is not easy to find. Last year, 17 people were found, and 20 people are to be found this year, but only 11 people are found now.

Said tuiniszi mu Tubai.

The situation in the southern Xinjiang is much better than that in the northern Xinjiang.

In September, nearly 100 million mu of cotton in shwan county was in full bloom. Although there were 514 thousand acres of machine picked cotton, there were still more than 6 workers in the county. At present, the shortage of flower workers has become increasingly prominent, and there are still more than 3 million pickups.

"Picking up the cost of 1.9 yuan to 2.1 yuan per kilogram this year, almost all flower pickers ask for reimbursement for the fare to and fro, and also manage to eat and control. Some pick up workers even require two nets to be processed, which will add 400 yuan to 800 yuan for cotton growers, which is not easy to find."

The village of Bao Zhuang village, Lao Sha Wan Town, said Bai Jian Ben.

The old Shawan Town is regarded as the cotton planting town in Shawan County. 148 thousand cotton plants were planted this year, including 81 thousand mu of machine picked cotton. 37 villages still need to pick up more than 2 thousands of flower workers. At present, only 2 people have been picked up in the town.

Jiang Dengming, a cadre in the village of ningzhou, twenty Li Town, Hutubi County, said that there were more than 40 thousand mu of cotton in the village of ningzhou, and 10 acres of cotton were picked according to the 1 pick-up workers. At present, there were less than 500 flowers in the village, more than 1000 in the past year.

Increasing costs and increasing incomes

Although cotton production has increased significantly this year, the increase in planting costs and low cotton prices still plague cotton farmers' income.

In the qalick farm in Wensu County, Wang Qianfeng, chief of the production division, counted the reporters.

From the input of per mu agricultural input, this year's plastic film has increased by 1 yuan a kilogram, the seed has increased by 6 yuan per kilogram, the fertilizer bag has increased by 70 yuan, the tractor farming cost has increased by 25 yuan, and the pesticide cost has increased by 70 yuan, which is 181 yuan.

From the cost of per mu management, the increase of labor costs for weeding, tillage and topping increased by 100 yuan.

The cost of picking flowers has increased by 0.6 yuan a year over last year, and the cost of picking flowers per mu has increased by 240 yuan based on 400 kg seed cotton per mu.

The cost of cotton per mu increased by 521 yuan this year.

Rising costs, from township cadres to cotton farmers are all worried.

"Definitely lower than last year, and it's 8.5 yuan to 9 yuan, too high."

Speaking of this year's new cotton market price expectations, qalick ranch office director Chen Junrong said so.

Although the cotton mill has not started large-scale acquisition of new cotton, the reporter learned from some cotton farmers' mouth that the purchase price of the new cotton in qalick ranch is currently 8.2 yuan to 8.7 yuan, while that in gure Awati township is 9 yuan.

"The price of last year is high and the farmers are happy, but we all know that this year's price can not be the same as last year."

Chen Junrong said.

Farmer Abra Maimaiti also thinks that the price like last year will not happen this year. The price of 9 yuan per kilogram is acceptable, and 55 mu of land can earn 40 thousand yuan to 60 thousand yuan.

We interviewed in the old town of Sha Wan, four river Hezi Town, an Ji Hai Town, and good seed farm, and found that the cost of planting cotton is generally higher than that of last year. The cost per field of responsibility farmland is about 1000 yuan, the cost of contracted land is 1400 yuan to 1700 yuan, and the cost of planting cotton flowers is increasing, cotton prices are lower than last year, picking up flower workers is hard to find, and picking cotton processing plants are few.

Tang Fuwu, the villager of Lu Wan Village in old Shawan Town, said that this year the seed cotton yield per mu was generally more than 350 kilograms, but the cost of picking cotton alone increased by 300 yuan. Last year, the pesticide and fertilizer needed per mu only needed 40 yuan. This year, 60 yuan per Mu was gained, and there were about 62 yuan per mu for planting, plowing, cutting and plowing. The increase was more than 20 yuan over last year, plus seed, plastic film, drip irrigation belt and consumption. The cost of seed cotton removal this year is 400 yuan per mu less than that of last year.

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Ensure revenue increase through multiple pronged approach

In order to alleviate the shortage of pickers and ensure the increase of cotton farmers' income, in September 14th, Awati County constituted the two docking groups composed of the deputy director of the Standing Committee of the county people's Congress and the vice chairman of the CPPCC as the group leader, the staff of the agricultural office, 8 townships (towns) and personnel and labor departments, and went to the 13 counties and cities in Hotan and Kashi to recruit flower laborers, so as to solve the problem of labor shortage in picking flowers.

The cotton processing enterprises have also made the acquisition of new cotton and provided various services for cotton growers.

In order to ensure the safe admission of new cotton and the smooth running of cotton ginning work, all cotton processing enterprises in Awati County started early to repair, maintain and debug the mechanical equipment such as cotton gin, baler, fleece and cleaning machine, and adopted the responsibility system of setting machines, setting personnel, setting quality standards, fixing maintenance costs and carrying out a package, so that the objectives of maintenance work were clearly defined, the responsibility was implemented and the measures were effective, which laid a good foundation for the successful acquisition of new cotton.

Facing the shortage of flower workers and the increase in labor costs, Shawan County has extensively promoted the area of machine picked cotton. This year, the county's machine picked cotton area reaches 510 thousand mu, which not only reduces the number of pickup workers, but also reduces the cost.

Lao Sha Wan Town Party committee and government actively help vulnerable groups such as difficult families to pick up florist.

Four road river town is aiming at the increase of labor cost and the rising of agricultural capital. It is mainly through the adjustment of agricultural industrialization structure, the adoption of diversified management modes, the development of facility agriculture and fruit industry, the improvement of agricultural mechanization level, and the popularization of machine picked cotton.

Hutubi County expanded the area of machine picked cotton.

The equipment maintenance work of the cotton ginning enterprises has been basically completed, and the comprehensive acquisition will begin in the near future.

At present, there are 12 cotton pickers in the county. Under normal working conditions, each cotton picker can harvest 3000 mu of machine picked cotton in one working season and 12 mu of cotton picker in the county can complete 36 thousand mu.

At present, the cotton pickers outside the county and the corps are coordinating the cotton harvest in the county.

At the same time, we should mobilize the surplus labor force in the pastoral areas, urban unemployed and unemployed graduates to join the cotton harvest in the agricultural areas. Towns and villages will form various "helpers" from the rural labor force with relatively small planting area to carry out labor income generation across villages and towns.

The county labor and Employment Bureau has also contacted Gansu, Qinghai and Ningxia in the Xinjiang office, bringing in 2000 migrant workers to participate in cotton harvest.