Shandong Dongying Implements Cotton Farmers Policy To Reduce Cotton Farmers' Losses By 200 Million Yuan

Recently, China reserves cotton company announced the national reserve cotton reserve policy this year, and relaxed 4 places such as Dongying. cotton Reserve requirements, the purchase of cotton grade from 4 to 5. Shandong's cotton growers who have lost nearly 5 of their output due to weather reasons will benefit from this adjustment. Only Dongying will lose 200 million yuan. It is precisely because of the active efforts of the quality supervision departments that the policy of benefiting cotton farmers can be implemented.

Cotton production reduced by bad weather 50%

Dongying's land is alkalization, suitable for planting cotton, and its planting area ranks second in the whole province. Cotton production is concentrated in the east half of Hekou District, Lijin County and Kenli County in Dongying, with cotton planting area accounting for 70% of the city's total cotton planting area. In August this year, Dongying continued to suffer 6 strong typhoons and storms frequently attacked for nearly a month, resulting in a large number of farmland flooded, cotton lodging in large areas, production fell sharply, cotton quality dropped seriously, cotton growers were severely affected.

In mid November, when the Economic Herald reporter interviewed in Dongying, many cotton fields were abandoned because of poor cotton quality and difficult to compensate for picking costs. It is understood that the average annual yield of cotton in Dongying is 400-600 Jin, with an average yield of about 450 Jin. Due to bad weather, cotton production in Dongying is very serious, especially in the east half of Hekou District, Lijin County and Kenli County, which account for 70% of cotton production in Dongying.

According to statistics, a total of 1 million 800 thousand acres of cotton were planted in Dongying this year, and the cotton production area was about 300 thousand mu. The output dropped to 150 kg / mu of cotton, about 800 thousand mu, and cotton production was estimated at 500 thousand kg between 200-300 kg. Compared with last year, the estimated output declined by 50%, and the total lint yield was below 60 thousand tons.

The relatively mild Guangrao and Dongying cotton growing areas in the Yellow River District accounted for only 80% of the total cotton production in the past year.

The loss is over 200 million yuan.

Dongying City Quality Supervision Bureau jointly with the relevant departments, conducted nearly a month of field research, found that not only half of cotton production has caused serious losses to cotton farmers, and cotton quality has also been severely damaged by disasters, which is nothing but worse. According to the relevant person in charge of Dongying Quality Supervision Bureau, due to the long duration of precipitation, the water in the cotton field is serious, the peach is peeling off, the top peach is very few, the cotton bolls below are mildew and the cotton quality is serious, the cotton grade in the middle stage is mainly 4 and 5, and the cotton in the early and late stages accounts for half of the cotton output.

The statistical data obtained from the new cotton processing association of Lijin County show that the cost of planting cotton per mu is about 1195 yuan this year. Among them, 400 yuan for land contract, 100 yuan for fertilizer, 100 yuan for field management, 100 yuan for pesticide and fertilizer, 45 yuan for seed, 40 yuan for machinery farming, 50 yuan for watering, and 360 yuan for cotton picking (calculated by 300 kg per mu). According to the calculation of the national storage price (the average price of seed cotton in the early, middle and late stages is 4.2 yuan / Jin) this year, the plots that yield less than 300 Jin per mu will not be able to recover the cost. Judging from the output after the disaster, the average loss of cotton per mu in Dongying is 115 yuan, and the total loss will reach more than 200 million yuan.

In view of the serious disaster of cotton production and income reduction, the Dongying Quality Supervision Bureau has sent professionals to form a working group to help cotton farmers carry out self rescue work after disaster. Cotton growers should be encouraged to do cotton late management, increase publicity and guidance for cotton farmers' four points work, and distribute and sell the stiff cotton and mouldy rotten cotton as much as possible, so as to ensure the grade of cotton. At the same time, cotton processing enterprises are required to purchase fine processing, grasp the standards of cotton, and reduce the losses of cotton farmers as far as possible.

Downgrade store up

According to the survey, the Dongying Quality Supervision Bureau on the one hand reported the disaster in a timely manner, truthfully reflected the disaster situation to the relevant departments, provided scientific reference for governments at all levels to formulate disaster prevention measures; on the other hand, actively promoted cotton purchasing preferential policies to help cotton farmers reduce their losses.

Dongying Quality Supervision Bureau first submitted to the National Bureau of textile inspection and Provincial Bureau of inspection and quarantine the investigation report on the situation of cotton disaster in Dongying City, and made a special report to the National Bureau of textile inspection with the Provincial Bureau of textile inspection. It suggested that the relevant departments should appropriately adjust the cotton purchase and storage policy, and put the 5 grade cotton in the national purchasing and storage plan, and appropriately raise the cotton purchase and storage price, so that the cotton farmers' production would not be reduced. In September and October this year, the national development and Reform Commission and the national Fiber Inspection Bureau went to Shandong for two times to investigate the situation, and finally adopted the proposal of Dongying Quality Supervision Bureau to relax the conditions of storage and purchase. The purchase grade of cotton was reduced from 4 to 5.

　　 doy The Municipal Quality Supervision Bureau has also combined with relevant departments to conduct a multi-level analysis of the causes of damage, and on this basis, put forward reasonable proposals to the relevant departments. For example, the water conservancy department has put forward suggestions for improving the infrastructure of irrigation and water conservancy; put forward suggestions for strengthening the management of agricultural insurance business to the insurance regulatory authorities; put forward suggestions for strengthening the pest control work in the agricultural sector; and put forward suggestions for strengthening the early warning of bad weather to the meteorological department. All these comments and suggestions received positive feedback from relevant parties.