Good Cotton, However, Falls In Volume And Price. Wenling Cotton Growers Are Subsidized By The Government.

Another year is cotton mature, Wenling planting more than 3000 mu.

Has entered the new cotton picking season.

Unlike last year, cotton prices dropped by 15% over the same period last year, and output also declined. This has made many cotton farmers lose their happiness when harvesting.

The quality of cotton is good despite its volume and price.

The cotton in Wenling is mainly distributed in the hall of the mouth of Hengshan County in the south of the town, in the pond area of the mouth of the pond, mostly in the two villages of Huang Wan and WAN Tang.

This year, due to rainy weather and typhoon "sea anemone", cotton lodging and bud and boll abscission are serious, resulting in a reduction in yield, and the yield per mu is only about 400 Jin.

Compared with last year's six hundred or seven hundred jin per mu, it was two hundred or three hundred jin less, and the selling price was 15% lower than that of the same period last year.

Lin Dongcai, a cotton seed farmer, calculated the cost of fertilizer for this year: the cost of fertilizer per mu rose from 140 yuan ~150 yuan last year to 180 yuan ~200 yuan, and the pesticide rose from 60 yuan per mu last year to 100 yuan per mu this year.

In light of these two items, Lin Dong Cai's cost has increased by about 2000 yuan this year.

In addition, the labor cost of picking cotton has increased by 30% this year.

I understand that the rapid increase in labor costs has become a burden on cotton farmers shoulders.

"This year, the labor cost of picking cotton has risen from 0.8 yuan per catty last year to 1.1 yuan to 1.2 yuan per catty.

If calculated by day, the cost of picking labor also rose to 70 yuan from 50 yuan a day last year.

Only picking labor costs has made cotton farmers yield less than 200 yuan per mu.

Because of the low cotton purchase price this year, cotton growers are not enthusiastic about the sale of new cotton. These days they put the newly picked seed cotton drying piled up at home and expect prices to rise.

Less profitable seed cotton processing households dare not buy freely

This year, cotton purchase in Wenling

It is also a bit cold and cheerless. In addition to the purchase price of seed cotton of 4.3 yuan per catty not reaching the psychological expectation of cotton farmers, cotton farmers are reluctant to sell cotton and wait for seed cotton prices to rise.

Lin Guichun, a cotton purchasing giant, said that the net profit of cotton was very small this year. Last year, it could sell 11.5 yuan per catty of lint. This year, it can sell at most 10.5 yuan per catty.

Lin Guichun remembered that at this time of 2010, cotton spinning enterprises were particularly demanding. They rushed to cotton and seed cotton prices to over 6.8 yuan per catty.

In the view of some cotton purchasers, the market demand for cotton is slipping now, and even the main cotton producing areas appear the phenomenon of no cotton acquisition.

So this year, we dare not accept it.

Lin Guichun, for example, recently received frequent calls from cotton growers in Jiangsu and Shandong to buy cotton, but he felt that he could not digest it.

"Before we went to Jiangsu to buy cotton, we basically couldn't grab it. Now even the cotton in these cotton producing areas in Jiangsu is hoarding, not to mention Wenling."

He believes that the development of such a situation will continue to decline after the purchase price of cotton.

"Wenling's cotton is now mainly digested by hawkers from Yueqing, Yuhuan, Wenzhou and other neighboring provinces.

Although the price of cotton is relatively low, at least it will not be unsalable, and the quality of cotton is good this year, and many leather cotton have reached the standard of three cotton.

Many cotton processing households are not pessimistic.

Xinjiang cotton impacting Market

Analysis of the reasons for the poor cotton market this year is whether cotton farmers or processing households are related to the large number of cotton and cotton in Xinjiang and abroad this year.

A cotton processing household told the author that the amount of cotton purchased and stored in the state decreased this year, which made Xinjiang cotton a large quantity of the market. Moreover, Xinjiang cotton was cheap and fine, which greatly affected the domestic cotton market.

It is understood that by 2011, Xinjiang has achieved the first cotton area, output per unit area, total output and output volume in 19 consecutive years.

This year, the cotton planting area in Xinjiang is about 24000000 mu, an increase of 660 thousand mu over last year. The total output is expected to reach 3 million 200 thousand tons, an increase of about 100000 tons over last year, nearly half of the total cotton output in the country.

In addition, the impact of foreign cotton on domestic cotton is particularly evident this year.

Enterprises have lost many foreign trade orders and moved to Vietnam, India and other countries with lower cost.

At the same time, domestic cotton compared with imported cotton, the price per ton is about 4000 yuan, which also led to the large number of domestic cotton enterprises to use foreign cotton, China's annual 30%~40% cotton imports.

In some coastal textile enterprises, half of the cotton in the warehouse is Australian cotton or American cotton.

Lin Guichun told me that since March 2011, domestic cotton prices have been showing a downward trend, but the decrease is less than the international cotton price. Therefore, the difference between domestic and foreign cotton prices has gradually widened. This year, it has broken 5000 yuan, reaching a record high.

"This is mainly because the production of cotton in the United States, Brazil and other countries is based on farm management, with a high degree of mechanization and a much lower production cost than in China."

How to stabilize the price and guarantee the market cotton farmers hope to support the subsidy

Faced with the current situation, many cotton farmers also have their own ideas: "cotton prices in 2008 were as low as 2 yuan per catty, and no one bought them. At that time, we had turned to the media for help.

By 2010, the price of cotton had rushed to more than 6.8 yuan per catty, and now it has dropped to 4.3 yuan per catty. The price of cotton is so unstable that our cotton farmers can not grow at ease.

Lin Dongcai, a cotton grower, believes that if the price of roller coaster can be controlled, the support policy can be introduced to maintain the stability of cotton prices, which is very important for farmers to develop cotton industry.

In fact, in order to promote cotton price recovery and stable operation of the market, and effectively protect the interests of cotton farmers, the state has also issued a cotton reserve purchase price.

In September 10th, the central storage cotton company started the 2012 year (September 2012 to August 2013) cotton temporary purchase and storage policy.

The purchase and storage price was set at 20400 yuan / ton, up 600 yuan / ton compared with the previous year.

This year is also the second year of the implementation of the temporary cotton purchase and storage policy.

There are also cotton farmers believe that no matter the country or our city, we should first introduce Cotton Subsidy Policy.

At present, grain subsidies amount to three hundred or four hundred yuan per mu, and farmers' enthusiasm for grain production is relatively high.

"If the cotton subsidy can reach 100 yuan per mu, it may inspire.

Planting enthusiasm.

It would be better if we could introduce preferential policies to support the development of cotton professional cooperatives.

One industry insider said.