Dezhou, Shandong: "Cotton City" Cotton Industry Chain Is Difficult To Continue

In 2010, garlic, ginger, potatoes and other agricultural products prices reached the peak in the past years, but this year, they generally suffered a fall in prices, and many agricultural products prices once fell to the cost line.

In addition to the time when cotton was concentrated on the market, Shandong Dezhou, also known as "cotton city", also fell into the predicament that cotton had to "sell at a low price".

Cotton cheap injury farmers: "cotton city" cotton industry chain is difficult to continue

Dezhou, Shandong, is known as "cotton city", and it is also the time for cotton to be listed. At this time of year, it is the season when Dezhou cotton farmers and cotton enterprises are busy picking and buying. This year is different from that of previous years. Because of the low price of cotton, the cotton market is basically not traded this year, and cotton purchasing is dead.

The death of cotton

Most cotton farmers reduce or abandon cotton planting.

It is understood that the price of cotton seeds sold at present is about 3.8 yuan per catty, and at the highest time last year, it was 7 yuan per catty. At the beginning of September this year, when cotton was just listed, it sold 4.8 yuan a Jin.

According to cotton farmers' calculation, the price is only 4.5 yuan per catty to make money.

3.8 yuan does not make money at all, or even loses money.

So at present prices, farmers are not only unwilling to sell, but even many cotton farmers have replanted wheat.

Reporters learned that some cotton farmers in Dezhou have been pulling cotton seeds and wheat, and the proportion of some villages has reached 70%. Most cotton growers have said that they will reduce or not grow cotton next year. It is estimated that the cotton area in Dezhou will decrease by 20%-30% next year.

On the way to Wucheng County in Dezhou, Shandong, on both sides of the road

Cotton prices fluctuate and textile companies stop production and limit production.

The fall in cotton prices has affected cotton growers.

Tian Hongjun, manager of Xiajin Fengrun Textile Co., Ltd., told reporters that their enterprises now limit production by 1/4 per day, and have become the most normal production enterprise in the enterprises near their towns.

All four or five of them have stopped.

Tian Hongjun said that when cotton prices are high, cotton yarn prices are low, and when cotton prices fall, enterprises are afraid that cotton prices will be lower, and still do not dare to cotton more.

Cotton prices fluctuate, making it difficult for enterprises to maintain normal operations.

Reporters in the interview also learned that from March to now, 80% of enterprises in Dezhou are in the state of shutting down production and limiting production, 40% of them are in a state of discontinued production, and 20% of enterprises may be closed down from now on.

{page_break}

Hard spot sales of cotton are difficult and international cotton prices are hard to revive

On the 6 day, the spot price of cotton was still slow down. The textile industry's multiple orders of reduced orders, shrinking profits, appreciation of the renminbi, and the weakness of the European economy caused many difficulties in sales.

Cotton purchasing market continues to be desolate, because seed cotton prices fell by more than 40% over the same period, cotton farmers next year are preparing to abandon cotton.

The price of China's main cotton imports is basically stable, with the exception of West Africa cotton, most other varieties have dropped slightly by 0.25 cents, while Central Asian cotton has cut 1.25 cents.

from