Take A Series Of Reports At The Grassroots Level: Cotton Blooming &Nbsp, But Unfortunately No One Has Picked It Up.

I am glad to see that cotton is blooming and my heart is worried.

Recently, Lv Juanjuan said that last year, she planted 300 mu of cotton, the output is good, and the price is good, the income of about 1000000.

After the autumn, she bought 100 mu of land, and this year planted 400 mu of cotton.

Now the cotton has been opened, but the whole day is worried about those who can't find cotton.

"I stayed in Korla Railway Station for seven or eight days, and I did not recruit a few people. It was not that there was no one, but the cost of picking cotton was too high."

Lv Juanjuan locked his eyebrows and said, "the cost of picking up a kilogram of cotton is 2 yuan, plus eating and drinking and 600 yuan per person. Now the cost of picking up a kilogram of cotton is almost 4 yuan. We really can't accept it."

After stopping for a few seconds, Lv Juanjuan added, "because of cotton this year."

"This land is not planted."

Lv Juanjuan said that last year's income of 1 million yuan had been exhausted after buying land, installing drip irrigation and buying agricultural materials such as plastic film, fertilizer, seeds and so on.

In this year, drip irrigation and management are in place, and the average yield per mu can reach 350 kg.

However, the plastic film has risen, the labor price has gone up, and the fertilizer has gone up.

Lv Juanjuan's husband, red star, calculated the cost to the reporters. The cost of investment in one mu of land, such as fertilizer, plastic film, pesticide, machine farming fee, management fee and the cost of picking up cotton, will add up to 2500 yuan to 2600 yuan.

According to the current purchase price of 8.5 yuan per kilogram, the output of 350 kilograms per mu is more than 2900 yuan.

The profit per mu is only 300 yuan to 400 yuan.

Compared with last year, the income will be reduced a lot.

"If you rent someone else's land, you will not make money at all. You might as well work as a long-term worker."

Harsh red star said so helpless.

"Picking up Florist this year is a bit difficult, even if the wage has risen to 1.8 yuan per kilogram, it still can not attract people!" Pu Hui Township, Pu Hui village.

Han Quan planted nearly 2000 mu of cotton this year.

He told reporters that every year in the early days of picking cotton, he and several cotton farmers from the same village went to Gansu and Dingxi to recruit a large number of flower pickers and pick up cotton for them.

As in previous years, he and his colleagues went to Gansu to pick up florist in August 12th. However, it was not until August 31st when they came back that they found more than 60 people, which had a large gap compared with their demand of 300 to 400 people every year.

Studying the reasons why it is difficult to recruit flowers, Han Quan said, on the one hand, the development of the mainland in recent years is very fast, and the wages of migrant workers have also risen a lot. Therefore, fewer and fewer people are making money by picking up cotton. On the other hand, due to the reduction of migrant workers, the local government departments attach less importance to the export of labor services, and lack the organization of local government departments.

"Another important reason is that the price of cotton picking up is very chaotic."

Han Quan said that last year, they signed a contract with the flower pickup workers at a price of 1.1 yuan per kilogram. When they checked out, because the cotton market was good last year, they paid wages for the gardener according to 1.2 yuan per kilogram.

And the price they signed with the gardener this year is 1.6 yuan per kilogram.

Some people who have contracted farms have even risen to 1.8 yuan per kilogram. Even so, it is difficult to find people.

Han Quan said, conservative estimates, he can accept 400 tons of cotton this year, only to pick up the cost of cotton will need about 900000, which is 400 thousand more than in previous years.

He hoped that the government departments could introduce cotton picking machinery as soon as possible, which could solve the problem of picking up flower workers and promote the further development of local agriculture.

Growing sense of pformation

Reporters in the interview heard many cotton farmers said: "this land can not be planted, the price will be higher and higher, and the workers will be more and more difficult to recruit. What should we do next?"

Han Quan said that if the machine could not achieve cotton production, he would part of the contract to others, part of his own licorice.

The idea of changing production is getting stronger and stronger.

According to Han Quan, there are already some species of licorice in the village, and licorice does not need much manpower.

But what is the "money" scene of licorice? Han Quan is very slim. I can not help but sigh deeply.