Cotton Prices Today: Cotton Prices In Hunan

November 30, 2012:

According to the monitoring of the Hunan Cotton Association, recently, the cold air has been affected by the southern air. Most of Hunan's areas continue to rain and clear weather. The temperature is relatively low except that of the southwest part of Hunan Province.

The rainy weather is more and the cooling range is larger. The long time low temperature and low illumination have certain effects on cotton picking and selling in Hunan province.

1. Cotton picking

According to the monthly monitoring of agricultural meteorology in mid - November, the cold air activity in our province was frequent in the middle of November, and the temperature dropped rapidly. The days of precipitation in most parts of Northwestern Hunan and southeastern Hunan were 4-5 days, and ten days of precipitation. Most of the cotton planting areas in Northern Hunan were more than 101-302%.

According to the forecast of the Provincial Meteorological Observatory, it is estimated that from late November to early December, the average temperature of the Northern Hunan is 8-9 degrees, the extreme minimum temperature is 3-4 degrees, and the rainfall is more than ten days.

At present, cotton picking in Hunan province is developing in full swing. At present, the cotton picking capacity in the whole province is about 85%.

This year, due to the impact of the national cotton temporary purchase and storage in 2012, the price of seed cotton and lint sale did not show any ups and downs for the time being, and prices were relatively stable.

However, it is affected by the price difference between the international cotton price and domestic cotton price (the international cotton price is around 14500 yuan / ton, domestic cotton price is around 18600 yuan / ton), the textile industry is in continuous downturn and cotton demand is not strong, and the cotton purchase fund is relatively tight this year, and the restrictive acquisition of the enterprises has occurred. The overall sales progress of the whole province is about 60%, and the speed needs to be speeded up.

3.

Since the beginning of the new cotton scale this year, the market price of cotton has gone lower and lower. Although cotton prices have not reached the psychological expectations of cotton farmers in our province, most cotton farmers have accepted the overall situation of cotton market this year. But cotton farmers generally believe that cotton prices are still low this year, and the prospect of cotton planting next year is not optimistic.

At present, the price of seed cotton purchased by type 400 cotton enterprises in Yueyang, Changde and other cotton growing areas in China is at 8.05-8.15 yuan / kg (lint 37-38% and moisture content less than 14%), and prices remain stable. In order to control costs, some enterprises have carried out the highest purchase price of 8.40 yuan / kg for seed cotton with a percentage of 38%.

November 30, 2012: cotton prices in Lixian, Hunan

Hunan Lixian seed cotton has acquired seven or eight percent.

Local four grade seed cotton purchase price is 4.1 yuan / jin (38-39 lint, 13 moisture), good four grade lint market quotation 18600-18700 yuan / ton (net weight ticket), cottonseed.

1.07 yuan / Jin.