Bazhou Cotton Picking "Hard Employment" Tianjin Disaster Cotton Grades Decline

Bazhou Cotton autumn harvest encountered "hard employment"

Autumn is the harvest season, but now it is more difficult for people who are busy harvesting.

In 2012, 600 thousand acres of cotton were planted in Yuli County, Bazhou. More than fifty thousand flower pickers from Henan, Sichuan and Gansu came here to pick cotton, but they could not alleviate the current situation. Flower picker Tense situation.

Abibra Musha, deputy township head of Xingping Township, Yuli County, said: "our Yuli County is a large cotton producing county. As cotton yields increase year by year, the problem of picking up flower workers is becoming more and more serious."

Cotton production has been increasing, while cotton pickers have not increased. Cotton production brings worries and worries to cotton farmers. Mezi Yi beiruyin is a cotton grower in Xingke village of Pingxiang County in Yuli County. It grows more than 800 mu of cotton and needs 80 to 100 flower pickers every year. Because of the shortage of pickup workers, he kept people in affection by raising his salary.

Yuli County, Pingxiang Xing Tong Ke Ke village cotton growers mezi Zi Eira: "round-trip train tickets we buy, sometimes Henan steamed bread to eat, sometimes Sichuan rice to eat, there are ethnic minorities to pull strips, mix noodles, are all of us now, the house in the evening watching TV, bath is very convenient."

Cui Liuzhen, a flower collector from Gansu, said: "the boss is very good to the workers, and they eat and live well, and the main thing is the boss. cotton Very well, we can earn money. "

In order to solve the shortage of flower workers every autumn, Yuli County has expanded the area of machine harvested cotton this year, and the county has popularized 5 million mu of cotton harvester. Under normal circumstances, each machine can pick up 3000 mu of machine picked cotton in one operation season, equivalent to 300 flower pickers, thus greatly easing the contradiction between labor shortage. At the same time, the local government has taken various measures to help farmers solve the difficult employment of cotton picking.

Abibra Musha, deputy township head of Xingping Township, Yuli County, said: "the graduates from rural secondary and technical schools who have not worked in our hometown are spanferred to large cotton farmers to help cotton picking. It also mobilized villages in the villages to grow less rural labor force, and formed various "helpers" and "mutual aid teams" to cross the village and cross the countryside to collect flowers and generate income.

Cotton rank decline in Tianjin

Today (September 22nd), the reporter learned from the Tianjin Cotton Association, along with the Ninghe County Ninghe Town, Yuelong Town, Fengtai town and other more than 10 cotton enterprises to buy cotton on the spot scale, the city entered the cotton acquisition season. According to cotton farmers and cotton enterprises generally, the main cotton producing areas affected by rainstorm are facing a foregone conclusion of cotton production and quality decline. Most of them are four or five flowers.

In the purchase point of Baolu road in Ninghe County, the purchasing company saw that the seed cotton color on the cotton truck was gray and rigid, and it was at most counted five flowers. According to cotton farmers, this year after the storm disaster, 5 volts of peach rotten 3, the per mu yield can also have more than 300 Jin, a good plot of land is only 450 Jin, and a good plot of land of nearly 600 Jin last year. It not only brought huge losses to cotton farmers, but also made good cotton fall down.

According to statistics, in 2012, cotton planting in Tianjin was 855 thousand and 700 mu, which was 44 thousand and 600 mu less than that in 2011, with a decrease of 5%. Early cotton growth was generally good, but in late July and early August, several severe rainstorms made the area of cotton disaster reach 724 thousand and 400 mu, and the proportion of disaster affected was as high as 84.66%. Serious disasters accounted for 70%, which affected the cotton yield per unit area by more than 25% over the previous year. In Jinghai County, where the rainstorm is more serious this year, the area of cotton disaster has been 228 thousand mu, and the proportion of the disaster has reached 99.6%, of which 66 thousand Mu has been destroyed, and 5 to 8 of the disaster has 90 thousand mu, and the proportion of disasters has accounted for 30% and 40% respectively. Cotton field survey, a cotton plant 9 peach, 5 spades, 4 green peach, serious disaster reduction, the level dropped significantly, five class flowers accounted for more than 5 percent.

According to convention, "eleven" is concentrated in cotton enterprises. Buy The time. The cotton industry in this city has been tested by severe disasters, making the competition in the cotton market more intense. Cotton enterprises in other provinces of Beijing, Hebei, Shandong and other provinces have bought points on both sides of the Po Lu highway to compete for local resources.