Yuncheng Cotton Purchase Price Upside Down Leads To Dilemma &Nbsp; Cotton Farmers Reluctant To Sell Enterprises To Stop Collecting

In the early winter season, the famous traditional cotton producing village, Yongji, is known far and wide. Du Jiaying Almost every family has harvested cotton harvested this year for sale. Reporters learned that due to the purchase price Upside down It has led to farmers reluctant to sell and no acquisition. Currently, Yongji, Linyi, Saline Lake and Ruicheng are the 4 main cotton producing areas. Unginned cotton The sales volume is less than 30%, far lower than 95% in the same period last year.

This year Yuncheng cotton sowing area of 1 million 18 thousand and 200 mu, seed cotton total production of 199 million kg, lint total output of 71 million 500 thousand kg. However, due to a rare continuous rainy weather since late August, only a small amount of seed cotton picked before rain is three grade, 75% below four, and more than 20% outside cotton. Due to the decline of cotton quality, the purchase price of seed cotton has dropped correspondingly. At present, the purchase price is 3.2 yuan to 3.5 yuan per catty, and the seed cotton price that has been drenched is only 2 yuan. Such a takeover price is not acceptable to cotton growers, and more worrying is that there is no market price.

Due to drought and waterlogging, investment in irrigation, physical and chemical, labor and other investments increased during the cotton production this year, with investment from 1000 yuan to 1200 yuan per mu. If the current purchase price is calculated, planting cotton is not profitable, and the scale of contracted land growers will suffer a serious loss. Faced with price upside down, most farmers have no choice but to choose. Reluctant sale 。 At the same time, the acquisition processing enterprises wait and see in order to avoid risks. stagnation 。

Faced with piles of cotton, Yuncheng cotton farmers are all helpless and sad. Dujiaying cotton grower told reporters that if cotton prices did not pick up in the late period, the enthusiasm of cotton planting would be great. Frustration 。