Cotton Purchase Price Is Low, Cost Is Rising, Yancheng Cotton Is High Yield Cotton Farmers Worry.

Right now cotton At the time of listing, in the big cotton producing city of Yancheng, although cotton purchasers and enterprises began to purchase new cotton in mid September, many cotton farmers were reluctant to sell. Most cotton purchasers also chose to wait and see, resulting in the slow progress of cotton purchase in the whole city. Sheyang County Commission of agriculture data show: as of mid October, the county's total purchasing capacity of enterprises is still less than 20% of cotton farmers' sales volume.

According to the Yancheng investigation team of the National Bureau of statistics, this year's cotton production is generally high yield and high quality due to various favorable factors such as climatic conditions, planting and planting base. It is estimated that 210 kg of seed cotton will be produced this year, with an increase of 10%. However, cotton farmers are not happy.

The reason is that cotton growing costs continue to rise. According to the survey, although the fixed cost and physicochemical cost of cotton production decreased in 2012, the labor cost increased significantly, and the total cost of cotton planting continued to rise. Cotton farmers in Sheyang, the largest cotton County in China, invested 1498.7 yuan per mu, an increase of 85.41 yuan and an increase of 6.04% over the same period last year. Two, the purchase price is low. This year, the price of temporary reserve and storage of cotton reserves has been set as the standard grade lint to warehouse price of 20 thousand and 400 yuan per ton, 600 yuan more than that of last year. The reference price of the corresponding seed cotton purchase is about 8.4-8.7 yuan per kilogram, which is about 0.2 yuan higher than the previous year's purchase price. However, because of the increase in cotton storage standards this year, the total sales income of cotton growers declined instead of last year. The average purchase price of cotton brokers in some counties is not only lower than the price of more than 14 yuan per kilogram in 2010 when cotton prices are high, even lower than the annual average 8.4-8.6 yuan price in 2011 when cotton prices plummeted.

Some people in the industry and grass-roots cadres believe that for the difficulties in every link of the cotton industry chain, the state has issued relevant policies such as raising subsidies and protecting prices, and collecting and storing them. However, efforts to solve practical contradictions are still insufficient, and relevant supporting policies need to be kept up.

Standardizing cotton purchasing market and supporting cotton Spin Enterprise development. According to the survey, the acquisition of cotton in Yancheng City depends mainly on cotton brokers walking in the countryside. Cotton brokers are generally judged by their cotton, dry humidity and cotton grades. It is suggested that the state formulate relevant support policies to encourage cotton enterprises to intervene directly. For enterprises that use domestically made cotton, we should give a certain amount of financial subsidy to the international cotton price, promote the smooth operation of the domestic cotton market and promote the healthy development of the cotton industry.

- vigorously improving the level of mechanization of cotton production and improving the comparative benefits of cotton planting. Increase scientific and technological content, through large-scale operation and research and development of cotton machine suitable for small-scale production and other ways, efforts should be made to increase cotton production efficiency and increase cotton production efficiency.

- properly relax the conditions of cotton storage and purchase, and expand the storage and storage coverage. As far as Sheyang county is concerned, only 4 enterprises are allowed to hand in their stores, accumulatively storing 3500 tons, accounting for only 9.6% of the total purchase amount of enterprises in the whole county. The coverage is small, which is not conducive to the protection of cotton growers' interests in a large area. It is suggested that the state and relevant departments should appropriately reduce the threshold and increase the storage and storage enterprises so as to allow more Cotton grower Interests are protected.