"Cotton Cheap Injury Farmers" Again In The New Year

2008

Many cotton farmers tasted the joy of harvest after soaring cotton prices last year.

The same cotton output this year may be less than half of last year's yield because of low cotton prices.

No one even came to collect cotton, and no one had ever sent cotton to the Xiajin family of Zhao Jia Fang, which was growing cotton all over the country.

The dramatic collapse of the repertoire is again on the top of cotton.

Sell, repent, sell, and regret.

In October 25th, the reporter came to Wang Dong Sha Village where cotton planting was more concentrated in Wei Ji Town, Huimin County. Several cotton farmers were picking the last stubble of cotton in the field, pulling a big chemical fertilizer bag, and the villagers Wang Yueliang worked for half a day, but picked ten Jin Jin of cotton.

"Cotton is a tossing, and it takes a lot of effort to stop talking about it. When it comes to selling it, it also regrets it. It doesn't sell and regret it. Last year, cotton suddenly rose, and when it was 7.5 yuan, it said that it had to go up. It didn't sell. It didn't take a few days. It fell to 5 yuan. The price fell, and the purchase of the merchants immediately went down. Finally, the cotton itself was sold to the cotton purchase point 20 kilometers away."

Speaking of cotton last year, Wang Yueliang had a lot of water.

"Although there was a continuous rainy weather in 8 and September this year, some of the cotton bolls in some areas were flooded in the field, and the phenomenon of rotten peach appeared.

But cotton growth at the late period of sufficient light and suitable temperature, generally increased production, mu yield is more than 200 kg, generally thirty kg higher than last year, and the quality is also slightly improved.

Chen Wenxiang, director of Plant Protection Station of County Agricultural Bureau.

Wang Dong Sha Village director Wang Guihua told reporters that the village now sells very little cotton.

There are several reasons. First of all, it is a habit of selling cotton. For many years, cotton farmers in the village have the habit of selling and selling cotton.

At present, the masses are picking fourth crops of cotton, and the well picked ones are being dried and not yet sold.

Generally, the middle picking cotton is better, and the quality of cotton picking and picking later is relatively poor. Good cotton can sell at high price and poor cotton is not wanted. Therefore, some cotton growers often wait until the cotton is picked up completely before they are sold together.

Then, with the increase of the number of migrant workers, the monthly fixed wage income, so that families are no longer as they used to be, cotton quickly sold down, put aside the concept of appreciation, and gradually expand in the masses.

But in the final analysis, higher costs and lower cotton prices are the main reasons why cotton farmers are reluctant to sell.

Wang Dong Sha Village Wang Bingyi planted 6 mu of cotton. Last year, the production cost per mu was about 600 yuan. Because of the growth of fertilizers and pesticides this year, the cost per mu is more than 700 yuan.

This year, the market's sporadic seed cotton purchase price is only 4 yuan / Jin, the quality of the field is generally less than 4 yuan, and the output of 400 catties is not artificial, and it makes less than one thousand yuan in hard work for six months.

Chen Wenxiang thinks cotton farmers generally feel that the price is still too low, and the sentiment of selling is obvious.

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Why does the minimum protection price fall?

In March this year, the state promulgated the policy, from September 1st to March 31, 2012 this year, in Xinjiang, Shandong and other 13 provinces, the lowest purchase price of standard grade lint per ton of 19 thousand and 800 yuan is not limited to purchase, corresponding to 3 grade seed cotton price should be more than 4.2 yuan per catty.

Cotton farmers who have been fed up with cotton prices have been calling for the lowest protective price system. Many people in the industry have high hopes for this year's cotton prices.

However, the reality has made people fall "glasses". After the new cotton market, the cotton price has increased by about 4.8 yuan a year from the beginning of September this year. It has dropped by about 1 yuan (the first price). The price of cotton spinning enterprises is about 4 yuan, that is to say, the price is below the minimum purchase price.

Reporters learned that from the end of October in Yucheng received the first single start, to November 6th, the lowest storage of the main storage cotton has acquired about more than 3000 tons in Shandong, accounting for 1.44% of the country.

Because of the small amount of storage and storage, this policy seems to have no direct effect on cotton prices. The Dezhou Cotton Association's Ma Jun Kai told reporters that in addition to the cotton farmers' reluctant sale, the quality of the cotton has a great relationship with the quality of the cotton. The quality of the storage is higher than four, and many cotton farmers are not strict with the quality requirements. For example, cotton is not protected, and cotton bags are loaded with cotton, etc., resulting in many foreign fibers in the cotton. Another serious illusion is that many cotton farmers traditionally do not want to classify the cotton, so they do not know that the cotton is mixed up and sold. Most people do not know that the majority of the cotton is mixed below four, and the quality of the cotton is also discounted, so the price of the national library has also been reduced.

But he also believes that the situation is more complicated this year. If there is no such price, I am afraid that the price of cotton will be even lower.

Cotton shortage is spreading, and cotton bears the brunt.

Cotton is definitely one of the hardest and most bitter crops in field crops.

This summer, when a reporter interviewed a cotton grower in Xiajin County, he was only able to talk to him for a while. The reporter was fumed and dizzy. He told reporters that a cotton crop usually had to be taken about 10 times.

Medicine is not the hardest part. Some places have begun to spray medicine with professional spray equipment. The most troublesome problem is to harvest cotton. It relies entirely on a cotton boll and a cotton peach.

This determines that cotton planting needs more labor input. Generally, one mu of cotton from seed to 25 or 6 artificial labor is normal, 10 more than wheat and corn in the two season.

In recent years, the number of employed workers in various industrial enterprises has increased rapidly, and the price of rural labor has also been rising. Especially since last year, labor prices have risen by more than 50%.

If the workers and peasants compete for the labor force, their benefits will be lower.

Reporters interviewed found that "labor shortage" has gradually spread from the industrial sector to the agricultural sector. This year is particularly prominent, and the low degree of mechanization of cotton and the most economical manpower are the first to bear the brunt.

In Dezhou, cotton is mainly planted in all households. The performance is not obvious. In Dongying, Binzhou and other places, there are more cotton farmers and more than 100 mu of cotton in the package area. If many cotton households are unable to catch up with the autumn harvest this year, they will be caught in the cold weather, and they will not be able to get enough people to harvest.

Zhang Shuyun, a large cotton farmer in Zhanhua, told reporters that he had offered a price of 160 yuan per mu, but so far his 100 mu cotton has not been found to be harvested.

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Pulling the seeds of wheat is Jether.

Tian Guangjie in Huimin County, the town of cotton seed, the previous period of 4.3 yuan per jin of cotton did not sell, now down to 3.8 yuan, he told reporters that this year did not catch the sowing wheat, but next year certainly will not grow so many cotton.

Farmers are also calculating the cost of labor. They grow grain from seed to basic mechanization.

Some places are still planting cotton, one is planting habits, the two is that cotton is more suitable for growing in saline alkali soil, and our province now has about ten million mu of cotton, and 1/3 is planted in saline alkali soil.

In fact, in some traditional cotton growing and cotton producing areas, with the improvement of water conditions and the improvement of saline and alkaline land, the phenomenon of pulling out (cotton) wood seeds and wheat is very common. For example, the statistics of Dezhou Cotton Association show that the cotton planting area in the first three or four years has dropped by more than 10%. In 2010, when cotton prices were high, the cotton planting area in 2011 was basically not increasing.

Wang Liuming, director of the cotton branch regiment of Shandong agricultural expert advisory group, is worried about this. He said that cotton is an indispensable and important fiber resource for social development. The gap between the increment of raw cotton and the increment of consumption demand has been expanding in the past 60 years.

As the most important competitor of cotton, chemical fiber will also be disadvantaged with the development of oil crisis.

Therefore, the strategic position of cotton in the dominant producing areas will be more prominent.

Regardless of cotton planting area or total output, Shandong ranks the second in the country. Once the location of cotton producing province is lost, it will bring great adverse effects to the cotton industry in Shandong province.

Academician Li Zhensheng of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, who recently attended a forum in Shandong Province, believed that the yellow triangle is one of the main cotton producing areas in China. However, according to the regulation of grain and cotton structure, with the improvement of production conditions and the improvement of grain to cotton comparative efficiency, cotton conversion to grain fields is a trend. In this regard, cotton can be pferred to coastal saline alkali areas, or grain and cotton two or three cultivation modes are adopted to achieve double harvest of grain and cotton.