Cotton Purchase And Storage Plan &Nbsp; Stimulate Cotton Farmers Enthusiasm For Cotton Planting

At present, just before the spring sowing of cotton, the cotton production and the promotion of domestic cotton production are promoted this year.

In March 1st, with the approval of the State Council, the eight departments of the national development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of finance, the Ministry of agriculture, the Ministry of industry and information technology, the Ministry of railways, the General Administration of quality supervision, inspection and quarantine, the national supply and Marketing Cooperative head office and the China Agricultural Development Bank jointly issued the "

What is the reason for this policy at this time? Can the price positioning of 20400 yuan / ton arouse the enthusiasm of cotton farmers to grow cotton? From the perspective of sustainable development of cotton industry, can we stabilize the cotton production this year?

"From this year's policy of purchasing and storage, the state has attached importance to cotton production.

At the moment before the spring sowing of cotton, the purchase and storage price is raised by 600 yuan per ton, and the message passed to cotton growers is that the country hopes that cotton farmers will get more benefits, which will stimulate the enthusiasm of cotton farmers to grow cotton.

Lu Huaiyu, President of the cotton association of China Cotton Association, said that not only is the increase in storage and storage prices, but the "preplan" has been released for a month earlier than last year, and it has further improved the execution area and quality standards of the storage and purchase area, which all conveyed a positive signal.

The biggest bright spot of the plan is that the temporary storage and storage price of cotton in 2012 is 20400 yuan / ton, which is 600 yuan / ton higher than last year.

"This price takes into account the interests of three cotton producers, textile enterprises and cotton growers."

Wang Ming, who has been engaged in cotton trade for decades, said.

It is understood that the wheat cotton ratio in history is generally at 1: 8 or 1: 9, and grain and cotton production can maintain balanced development.

However, with the continuous improvement of the degree of mechanization of grain production in recent years, the problem of wasting time and labor in cotton production has become increasingly prominent. The great difference in labor cost input has become an important factor that must be considered when determining wheat cotton ratio.

Based on this, the price of wheat and cotton is set at 1: 10 when formulating the price of temporary purchase and storage, and the cotton price ratio is appropriately raised.

"Wheat, rice and other agricultural products are raising the price of storage and storage, and raising the temporary storage and purchase price of cotton in 2012 is also expected."

Wang Ming said that the minimum purchase price of wheat in 2012 was 1.02 yuan / Jin, according to the ratio of wheat to cotton 1 to 10, 20400 yuan / ton was the appropriate price.

But this price does not consider the cotton processing fee. Obviously, more consideration is given to the textile market this year and the affordability of textile enterprises.

Lu Huaiyu also believes that the formulation of the 20400 yuan / ton purchase and storage price shows that the state has considered the current situation of severe textile situation and poor downstream demand.

From the national point of view, the establishment of the temporary purchase and storage price in 2012 needs to be promoted.

Cotton farmers: enthusiasm for cotton planting is still not high.

Although the state has increased the purchase and storage price, it aims at stimulating cotton growers' enthusiasm for planting cotton and stabilizing the cotton planting area this year. But the reporter interviewed found that cotton farmers' enthusiasm for planting cotton is still not high.

"Apart from Xinjiang, the price of purchasing and storing is not enough for the three cotton farmers in the mainland."

There are two main reasons for Lu Huaiyu analysis: first, the cost of cotton planting has increased year by year, and labor, land rent and production materials have risen since last year, and the opportunity cost of cotton growing last year is also low (compared with other crops and workers), competition is at a disadvantage.

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Second, the actual income of cotton growers in 2011 dropped significantly.

"The price of 20400 yuan / ton has a certain gap from the cotton farmers' expectations, and cotton farmers even hope that the purchase price will be reflected in the purchase price. In 2011, some cotton farmers' sales prices did not meet expectations."

Lu Huaiyu said, from the data we have grasped, most of the cotton farmers in 2011 suffered losses.

Rough calculation, in 2011 cotton converted into storage price converted to seed cotton price is about 4.2 yuan / Jin, but because of the purchase and storage of lint, cotton farmers are selling seed cotton, in the middle through broker, ginning enterprises and other links, the purchase and storage price is finally reflected in the cotton farmers selling price has a certain loss, most cotton farmers actually sell seed cotton average price in 3.5 - 3.7 yuan / Jin.

Therefore, many cotton farmers reflect that there will be fewer species this year. Some will reduce 1/5 and some will reduce 1/3.

According to the cotton farmers' Association, it is a foregone conclusion that the cotton planting area in the mainland has dropped by more than 10 percentage points.

From the current situation of seed sales, it is not as good as last year.

"It has nothing to do with us. Most of the cotton grown in our village this year is saline alkali land, and there is nothing else to be planted."

Li Xiyuan believes that the price of cotton temporary purchase and storage in 2012 did not meet expectations, even though the expected cotton planting area has not been achieved.

Because how many cotton or wheat or corn has been planted this year, it has been set up a year ago.

With contracted land, Li Xiyuan has 12 acres of land this year. He only plans to grow more than one mu of cotton. Last year he planted two acres and half, and planted seven or eight mu in the first few years. His cotton planting area is decreasing year by year.

Li Xiyuan's cotton planting area is decreasing year by year, which is a miniature of cotton farmers in Shanghe county.

According to Li Xiyuan, there are about 500 acres of land in their village. Half a year ago they grow cotton, but this year only twenty or thirty mu.

And these kinds of cotton are also helpless, because there are no other crops in saline soil.

"Raising 600 yuan per ton, raising about 0.2 yuan per kilogram of seed cotton, and increasing revenue per mu is about 50 yuan, which is still much lower than that of grain."

Li Xiyuan lamented that although the national policy was good, last year, the highest purchase price of seed cotton was only 4 yuan / Jin last year, and he sold his cotton for 3.3 yuan, which is the fundamental reason for his reduction of cotton cultivation this year.

"Seed cotton purchase price at 4.5 yuan / Jin, cotton seed is cost-effective."

Li Xiyuan said he expected the price of seed cotton.

Xinjiang cotton farmers with relatively high mechanized operations are equally unhappy about this.

"Wage increases this year, the price of agricultural means of production has risen, and the purchase and storage price has been adjusted only 600 yuan (per ton), and less than 0.3 yuan per catty (per catty).

The cost of every mu land in the northern Xinjiang reached more than 1900 yuan last year, and even if the output per mu is 300 kilograms (seed cotton), there will be less than 400 yuan.

There are a lot of acres of real estate less than 300 kilograms, an average of less than 8 yuan per kilogram of seed cotton, one mu of land to compensate for more than two hundred or three hundred yuan.

Xinjiang Shawan County cotton farmers Wang Jun said pessimistic, this year's reserve price increase is less than expected.

According to Ma Junkai, Deputy Secretary General of the cotton association of Dezhou City, Shandong, the cost of cotton planting has increased in Dezhou last year. The direct cost of machine farming, seeds, fertilizers, pesticides and other direct labor (excluding manual labor) has reached 480 yuan / mu, and the average land price is 450 yuan / mu, and 380 yuan per person for picking up cotton.

The output value of cotton per mu is 1715 yuan, according to the calculation of 237 kg of seed cotton per mu and the average selling price of 7.60 yuan / kg.

If farmers grow their own land and pick up their own cotton, after deducting the cost of direct planting, they earn 1321 yuan per mu, 300 yuan less than grain.

If rented land, hire flowers, mu income only 491 yuan.

"It is precisely because the income is relatively low, some farmers began to give up seed cotton and turn to grow grain."

Ma Junkai also said that in the past few years, the cotton planting area in Dezhou had reached about 2000000 mu, but it was reduced to about 1600000 mu last year.

According to the situation of wheat planting this year, the cotton planting area in Dezhou will be reduced by 25% to about 1 million 200 thousand mu.

At the same time, Lu Huaiyu believes that the plan will play an incentive role for cotton growers in Xinjiang.

The degree of mechanization of cotton planting in Xinjiang is high, cotton growers have large cotton planting area, and the storage and purchase price is increased, which is conducive to improving cotton farmers' enthusiasm for growing cotton.

Although the purchase and storage price increase reflects the direction of China's cotton policy, it will play a positive role in stabilizing the cotton area. However, the specific recovery of cotton planting area depends on the situation behind it.

Overall, cotton planting area will continue to decrease in 2012.

Another month later, it was time for cotton planting.

It is hoped that the cotton purchase and storage policy in 2012 will stimulate the enthusiasm of farmers to grow cotton and stabilize the cotton production this year. It is also hoped that cotton farmers will not only have a good harvest but also a good income this year.