The Purchase Volume Of Sheyang County Is Less Than 20% Of The Sales Volume

Right now cotton At the time of listing, in Yancheng, a major cotton producing city, although some cotton buyers and enterprises began to purchase new cotton in the middle of September, many cotton farmers were reluctant to sell, and most cotton buyers also chose to wait and see, resulting in the slow progress of cotton purchase in the city. According to the Sheyang County Agriculture Committee, as of the middle of October, the cumulative purchase volume of enterprises in the county was still less than 20% of the cotton farmers' sales volume.

According to the survey by the Yancheng Survey Team of the National Bureau of Statistics, this year's cotton in this city is generally high yield and high quality due to various favorable factors such as climate conditions and planting basis. It is estimated that this year's per mu yield of seed cotton will be about 210 kg, increasing by 10%. However, cotton farmers are not happy.

The first reason is that the cotton planting cost continues to rise. According to the survey, although the fixed cost and physical and chemical cost of cotton production in 2012 decreased to a certain extent compared with the previous year, the labor cost increased significantly, and the total cotton planting cost still showed an upward trend. Sheyang, a major cotton county in China, has invested 1498.7 yuan per mu, an increase of 85.41 yuan or 6.04% year on year. Second, the purchase price is low. This year, the temporary purchase and storage price of intermediate storage cotton was set as the standard lint stock price of 20400 yuan per ton, 600 yuan higher than the previous year, and the corresponding reference purchase price of seed cotton was about 8.4-8.7 yuan per kilogram, 0.2 yuan higher than the purchase price of the previous year. However, as the standard requirements for cotton collection and storage this year were higher than that of the previous year, the total sales revenue of cotton farmers was lower than that of the previous 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 when the cotton price was high in 2010, but also lower than the annual average price of 8.4-8.6 yuan when the cotton price plummeted in 2011.

Some insiders and grassroots cadres believe that the state has introduced policies to increase subsidies and protect the price of storage and other related policies for the difficulties in various links of the cotton industry chain. However, the efforts to solve the practical contradictions are still insufficient, and relevant supporting policies are needed to keep pace.

——Standardize cotton purchase market and support cotton spin Enterprise development. According to the survey, at present, the cotton purchase in Yancheng City mainly depends on cotton brokers who walk in the countryside. When cotton brokers harvest cotton, the dryness, humidity and cotton grade are generally based on subjective judgment, and there is a phenomenon of short weight. It is suggested that the state should formulate relevant support policies to encourage cotton enterprises to participate directly. For enterprises using domestic cotton, a certain amount of financial subsidies will be given according to the international cotton price to promote the stable operation of the domestic cotton market and promote the healthy development of the cotton industry.

——Vigorously improve the mechanization level of cotton production and improve the comparative benefits of cotton planting. Increase scientific and technological content, and work hard on cost saving and efficiency improvement of cotton through large-scale operation and research and development of cotton machines suitable for small-scale production, so as to improve cotton production efficiency.

——Properly relax the conditions for cotton storage, and expand the coverage of cotton storage. As far as Sheyang County is concerned, only 4 enterprises have been approved to deliver and store 3500 tons, accounting for 9.6% of the total amount of enterprises in the county. The coverage is small, which is not conducive to protecting the interests of cotton farmers in a large area. It is suggested that the state and relevant departments should appropriately lower the threshold and increase the number of delivery and storage enterprises, so that more Cotton farmer Interests are protected.