Cotton Price Trend In Anhui In September 10, 2012

In September 7, 2012, the research team came to Chaohu, the main planting area of cotton in Anhui Province, and went to Hanshan county and Wuwei County, a major cotton producing county, to understand the local cotton production, marketing, capital and so on, as well as the operation of cotton and textile enterprises.

First, the small cotton enterprises are in a bad mood.

The weather was cloudy and rainy, and the temperature remained at about 25 degrees. However, since the rainfall lasted from 5 in the morning and 6 in the morning to 10 in the morning, it had little effect on the quality of the local cotton.

We first came to a large cotton enterprise in Hanshan County, and the whole processing plant was clean, neat and empty.

When we arrive at the office area, the boss exchanges with us enthusiastically.

In the process of communication, the company understands that the company has achieved a good profit level because of its steady operation, while the surrounding 400 enterprises are in a loss situation.

The enterprise is a private enterprise, mainly engaged in spot goods. Most of the 4400 tons of cotton processed last year were sold and a few sold to textile mills.

At present, 400 types of processing enterprises around the Hanshan county have not yet started to purchase. They are also waiting for the issuance of loans. Because the maturity time of the cotton in Hanshan county is earlier than that in Anqing and Wangjiang, Anhui, in order to guarantee the acquisition of processing enterprises, the general loan approval of the Agricultural Development Bank has to wait until the large quantities of cotton are listed.

At present, only 3, 4 type 200 cotton enterprises and some cotton farmers purchasing sites of some rural economic people in the surrounding areas have been bought. We also see that most of the 200 small factories are closed down.

Because of the shortage of storage conditions in the small factories, cotton fell all the way last year, and many enterprises were also squeezed out of the market in a disorderly operation.

At present, all the listed cotton are pre - peach, and the grade is basically around 5. Due to the limited picking capacity, the purchasing volume of several small factories in the vicinity is around 100 thousand jin, and the purchase price is 3.7 - 3.8 yuan / Jin.

At present, the 200 type enterprises do not start processing because they know that they can only be used as cash circulation after processing. With the poor operating conditions of the surrounding textile enterprises, these enterprises intend to pform the cotton seed purchase and pfer station to earn the difference of seed cotton.

This year's seed cotton sale scene did not come to Shandong, Hubei and other cotton factories to rush to collect, compared to the same period in previous years, the scene was much worse.

This year, Hanshan county has a population of 450 thousand, and cotton planting area has been reduced compared with previous years. The cotton planting area in the first few years can reach 140 thousand mu, and this year only 80 thousand acres.

The main alternative crop is farmers to grow rice.

The current unit yield has increased, 400 Jin / mu in previous years, this year in 450 - 500 Jin / mu.

At present, the textile business is generally not good, the funds are short, and there are many arrears.

The cost of lint processing is generally around 1500 tons. The accounting cost of local enterprises mainly includes: production costs, drying equipment costs, employment and staff costs, freight, finance and management expenses. A large part of the cost of interest is also very high for some enterprises that collect capital and business loans, and the second is value added tax (the value added tax for every sale of cotton reaches 20 thousand yuan, which is 130 yuan VAT).

Two, inaction cotton early mature small cotton enterprises actively rush to harvest seed cotton purchase price in 4 yuan / Jin

In the afternoon of September 7th, our research team arrived in Anhui's cotton producing county, Wuwei County.

In 2012, the cotton area in Wuwei County was around 540 thousand mu, and the yield per unit area decreased from previous years. It reached 600 Jin / mu in the past year, and this year it was around 400 Jin / mu.

The main reason is that cotton is affected by typhoon and rainfall in the medium term, and a lot of peach is destroyed.

Arriving at the local area, just after the rain, the field is still moist, and the cotton is lodging. Due to the earlier maturity of cotton in Wuwei County, it can be seen that a layer of cotton has been picked up at the bottom.

The height of cotton is shorter than that of Anqing and Wangjiang area. The plant height is about 1.2 meter and three, and the average peach yield per plant is about 22.

Along the road, many 200 type cotton processing plants in Wuwei County are closed and shut down.

But quite a few

The acquisition station is in full swing, and the acquisition scene is more lively.

We arrived at a cotton acquisition station, and we were watching cotton growers pulling a cart of cotton seeds on the farm tractor.

According to the owner of the acquisition station, they have bought about 1 million pounds, and the seed cotton purchase price is now at 4 yuan / Jin, and cotton farmers are actively selling it.

Cotton grades are mainly weak 4, 5 flower, lint 38%, moisture 10% - 11%, the purchase price is 4 yuan / Jin; individual 200 processing plant has been processing lint, processing fee of 1500 yuan / ton (mainly raising funds and bank interest is high).

The sale price of cottonseed is about 1.3 yuan / Jin.

Because of the relatively few acquisitions, cottonseed prices are basically home free.

Recently, we visited some cotton enterprises in some cotton producing areas in Anhui. We can feel the lack of confidence in Anhui's market as a whole. We are not optimistic about the market prospect.

Mainly see that most of the domestic textile industry downturn, leading to the lack of confidence in the entire industry chain.

Chizhou: 200 enterprises have opened up the scale and the purchase price is 3.8 yuan / Jin.

　　近期，安徽池州的天氣晴好，新棉吐絮加快，棉農(nóng)的采摘量在逐漸增多，400大包企業(yè)由于農(nóng)發(fā)行的資金還沒到位，開秤時間一拖再拖，200型企業(yè)已按耐不住，蠢蠢欲動，但由于他們無緣國家收儲政策，又唯恐一旦400型的農(nóng)發(fā)行資金到位，市場價格會一路走高，屆時如果跟風(fēng)搶購的話，現(xiàn)貨市場價格較低，他們的風(fēng)險系數(shù)加大，因此，部分200型企業(yè)表示在400型企業(yè)未開秤之前，多收籽棉，如果現(xiàn)貨市場好轉(zhuǎn)，加工有利可圖的話，那就加工皮棉進行現(xiàn)貨交易，如果加工虧本，那就將收購的籽棉賣給400型企業(yè)賺取中間差價，據(jù)了解，部分200型的企業(yè)已收購籽棉近2萬斤，收購價格為3.7-3.80元/斤(不分級別和衣分，統(tǒng)花)。

In addition, from 8 o'clock at 7 pm, local light rain gradually turned heavy rain to heavy rain, and the temperature dropped to 22-26 degrees Celsius.

The influence of boll opening, picking and drying on the soil will be effectively replenished.