Xinjiang Sha Wan Cotton Farmers Suffer From The Pain Of Price And Purchase Of Enterprises

After harassing spring winds and hailstones, Shawan County, as an important cotton producing area in Xinjiang, has gained 955 thousand mu of cotton this year.

It is estimated that the total output of seed cotton exceeds 300 thousand tons, and the total output of lint cotton is over 123 thousand tons.

In the autumn of September, in the Sand Bay, the snowy white cotton and the blue sky make up a harmonious picture, which makes people feel very comfortable. In cotton fields, cotton growers and flower pickers are working nervously. This is their hope for a year, and is the result of pouring their efforts into it.

Xu Jianjun, a busy cotton grower, told reporters at the cotton field of the Song Sheng Gong Village in Jingou Town, Shawan County. "35 mu of cotton has been planted this year, and seed yield is estimated to be over 400 kilograms per mu. According to the current purchase price of cotton mill, it is 8 yuan, and the gross income per mu is up to 3200 yuan."

Xu Jianjun said that although this year's cotton harvest as a whole, but with the

The increase of farmers' profits is not impressive.

In the cotton field, Xu Jianjun moved his finger to account for the reporter. The cost of planting an acre of cotton this year is more than 1800 yuan, of which the picking fee is the largest expenditure. According to the picking fee of 2 yuan per kilogram, the picking fee is only more than 800 yuan per mu, and the agricultural material is also rising year after year. If the seed cotton is harvested 250 kilograms per mu, the farmers can only keep the capital, and only 250 kilograms harvest is the interests of the cotton growers.

Xu Jianjun said that last year's cotton purchase price was around 8.5 yuan. This year's purchase price is 8 yuan, lower than last year, and the acquisition standard is more stringent. The cost of cotton planting is increasing this year, and the interests of cotton growers must be reduced.

Like Xu Jianjun, the village of Song Sheng Gong Village, which has been planting cotton for many years, expects that this year's cotton purchase price between 8.5 yuan and 9 yuan should be the price acceptable to most cotton farmers.

Meanwhile, on the morning of 20, the reporter went into the high quality cotton processing plant in Shawan County. Although the seed cotton purchase has already started, the factory area seems rather deserted. There are not many cotton farmers coming to sell seed cotton, and the cotton stacks are not very large. Bian Jianghua, the manager of the plant, told reporters: "our purchase price is 8 yuan per kilogram."

Speaking of this year's cotton purchase price, Bian Jianghua said that although the state has issued the cotton temporary storage and storage price as the standard grade 20400 yuan / ton, the grade, length and moisture regain of the storage will be strict this year, which will bring difficulties to cotton processing enterprises. This means that the lint of cotton enterprises and workers can not be bought in accordance with the national purchasing and storage price, and a part of lint will go to the market.

According to Bian Jianghua analysis, the market price of domestic cotton in China is currently between 17600 and 18600 yuan per ton.

The price is between 13600 and 14000 yuan, coupled with the continued spread of the European debt crisis and the complex economic and environmental impact of slowing investment in China. This year, the cotton market is facing unprecedented risks and challenges.

He said that the risk of buying seed cotton at the price of 8 yuan per kilogram is still very high. Since last year, Shawan cotton industry began to work with the mainland.

When enterprises are butting up, they buy cotton seeds instead of cotton seeds in the way of processing lint. This way, though it reduces the profits of cotton enterprises, it will not lose at least, but not all seed cotton acquisitions adopt this mode, and a large part of them needs their own acquisitions.

Reporters learned that Shawan County currently has more than 30 cotton processing enterprises, belonging to Shawan cotton processing plant has 14, from September 10th, Shawan cotton processing industry began to buy seed cotton, as of September 12th, the county has acquired nearly 10000 tons of seed cotton.

Shawan County Agricultural Technology Extension Center staff Luo Zhiming said, Sha Wan this year's cotton should be said to be a productive year, initially predicted that this year mu yield of seed cotton in more than 320 kg, an increase of more than 10 kg per mu over last year.

Luo Zhiming said that Shawan is a large cotton planting area. This year, the cotton planting area has reached 955 thousand mu. However, with the increase of cotton planting cost and the influence of cotton purchase price, cotton farmers want to increase their income. Then only by reducing the cost and increasing the yield per unit area and reducing the cost, Shawan County has implemented the land exchange in recent years. On this basis, the water-saving drip irrigation measures have been implemented, the "six unification" planting pattern of the Corps has been learned, and the cotton picking cultivation has been speeded up. Through this series of measures, the unit yield has been raised and the cost has been reduced. The output of cotton has been rising for ten consecutive years.

Into the experimental field of Min Junqing, Chuquan village, Daquan Township, Shawan County, the reporter saw cotton growing well. Min Junqing pulled out a cotton plant at random. We counted the number of more than 40 cotton bolls.

Min Junqing said that his experimental field was measured by experts from Shihezi Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and seed cotton should be more than 540 kg per mu.

Min Junqing, cotton farmer, tried cotton seedling pplanting mode in Sha Wan for the first time this year. 3000 seedlings per mu were planted, which was much less than that of conventional planting of 15000 plants per mu, but the yield increased a lot.

Min Junqing said that this year is the first year to do experiments, so he pplanted to the ground a little later. If he had been pplanted in half a month, the yield of seed cotton would reach more than 600 kilograms.

Cotton farmers may be able to earn more money by using new technology.

Min Junqing gave the reporter an account of 800 kilograms of cotton per mu. According to the calculation of 8 yuan per kilogram, it was 6400 yuan per mu, and 3000 yuan per mu was calculated at a high cost of 3400 yuan.

He said that if farmers want to increase their income on limited arable land, the only way out is to use new technology to raise their yield per unit area.