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Low Cotton Prices Shandong Cotton Farmers Face Tough Choices

2013/1/5 13:59:00 51

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is another year's cotton harvest.

The "monkey" full cotton price once again stirs up sensitive nerves of cotton farmers and cotton enterprises.

with the rise and fall of < a href= "http://www.91se91.com/news/index_s.asp" > cotton price < /a > in recent years, the planting area of < a href= > http://www.91se91.com/news/index_p.asp > Shandong > /a > main cotton producing area is decreasing at an average annual rate of 10%, and the cold winter of the downstream industry has added to the already fragile domestic cotton market.

In the face of the cold current, facing the "anxious" cotton, both cotton farmers and cotton enterprises are facing a difficult choice.

cotton growers

> poor harvest meets the lowest price. It can only choose "stretch" but not sell .

When p entered the early winter, there were only cotton stalks with dead leaves in the large cotton fields.

in the town of Ma Dian, Huimin County, Binzhou City, Shandong Province, each village has 1515 mu of cultivated land.

A typhoon in August of this year made the bell a href= "http://www.91se91.com/news/index_c.asp" > cotton > /a > massive lodging, and the harvest was seriously affected.

"in the past year, an area of mu can receive more than 450 Jin, and this year mu yield is less than 300 Jin."

The villagers Li Ke planted 27 mu of cotton, and the seeds and cotton harvested were stacked in more than half of the house.

"They are all here, and the price is not suitable. Let's take a look at the situation."

2011, the price of new cotton listing was about 3.6 yuan, and this year reached 4 yuan.

Although the price is much higher than that of last year, it is not only Li Ke, but also Huimin County.

Adjacent to Zibo Gaoqing County, cotton farmers "stretch" do not sell is also very common.

Although cotton growers are all aware that the longer the seed cotton is stored, the lower the price of a href= "http://www.91se91.com/news/index_cj.asp" is, the lower the cost is. The consideration of the cost aggravates the cotton growers' psychological expectation of "good price".

in the shijiazun village of Tang Fang Town in Gaoqing County, the 51 year old cotton farmer stone has just described the current cotton market with "water rising boat low".

In his diary, he clearly noted the cost of planting: applying base fertilizer (diammonium one bag) 360 yuan, topdressing (urea 40 Jin) 80 yuan, raking 80 yuan, sowing 50 yuan, watering 200 yuan, film 80 yuan, medicine (plus seed dressing) 200 yuan, not artificial cost, the input of one mu of cotton field is 1050 yuan.

The cost of planting wheat and corn is only 500 yuan, and the cost of planting celery is 2870 yuan. The cost of planting wheat and corn is only $500.

"The income of grain and vegetables is about 1000 yuan and 2000 yuan per mu respectively, while cotton is only about 500 yuan, and the comparative benefit of cotton production is too low.

And cotton began sowing in April until harvest in November, which took a lot of time and trouble.

the villages of the surrounding cotton species are getting less and less, while all the cultivated land in West Liu village has been planted with cotton.

Liu Jingquan, Secretary of the Party branch of West Liu village, admitted that "the watermelon market here is relatively good in recent years. The main purpose of planting cotton is to interbreed with watermelon. We don't expect to make much money, otherwise, there will be no race of cotton."

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can not get enough, not enough to eat, cotton prices fluctuating day sad

these days, Zheng Niantai, the "cotton broker" in Zhengnian village, Tang Fang Town, Gaoqing County, is not very satisfied.

Since he was more than 20 years old, he has not had a great deal of "embarrassment" in cotton trading now.

"at this time of the year, ordinary people will make a move, and cotton will take up a lot of space.

Back to 20 years ago, Zheng can get more than 70 thousand jin of cotton a day, about 3000000 pounds a year, but now she will receive 300 thousand jin a year.

"In the past few years, Wei cotton and other textile enterprises around the world did not use local cotton. If the country does not have a bottom line this year, the cotton price will not reach 3.5 yuan / Jin."

"P", "cotton brokers" is a tough day and cotton business is not good.

In Huimin County, the National Cotton Industry Co., Ltd., although a day's storage capacity reached more than 20 Jin Jin, but this is in sharp contrast, at this time in the past year, more than 20 cotton enterprises opened up scales to buy and store, but this year only one family.

General manager Qi Fuguo said that before the local cotton spinning enterprises could digest more than 60% of lint, now more than 80% of them are going to store cotton, and the amount of 10% of cotton spinning enterprises can not digest.

"The impact of foreign cotton, the profit is too low, the Central Cotton store every day is the volume of the film store, it is hard to collect, the collection and storage of funds are cushions to pay, the normal operation does not have a $20 million can not go down."

Gao Qing was once a hundred kilograms of lint cotton and a famous national cotton textile city in China.

Relying on local abundant cotton resources, many cotton processing enterprises have been launched in the past decades, forming a relatively complete industrial chain.

But in recent years, the fluctuation of domestic cotton market has made this industry chain, which has been built for many years, "very hurt".

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"cotton price is not stable, in 2010, it rose to nearly 8 yuan" sky high price ". Over the past two years, the road has been falling, and the enterprise has also taken the" roller coaster ".

Yao Fangqing, chairman of Zibo Ying Hui textile company, said that after a lifetime of weaving, he felt more and more "not enough to eat".

"Enterprises are not afraid of high cotton prices, they are afraid of price instability.

The price of raw materials can not be set down.

Now this market, what we can do is to agree with the customer when signing the contract price fluctuation, then strengthen internal management and improve the added value of the product.

countermeasures

the need to solve the problem should be from a long-term perspective and the policy should be more targeted.

P, which has been planting cotton for many years, Shi Gang feels that the policy direction of the country is very important.

"The state attaches importance to grain production, subsidize 120 yuan per mu, and the enthusiasm of the masses to raise grain is raised immediately.

In view of cotton, subsidies are only 15 yuan / mu, subsidies are not strong, affecting the enthusiasm of planting.

in March this year, the state once again issued a policy to decide on the minimum purchase and storage price of standard grade lint of 20 thousand and 400 yuan per ton in the 13 provinces of Xinjiang and Shandong from September 1, 2012 to March 31, 2013. The price was raised by 600 yuan / ton compared with 2011.

However, the purchase and storage price is directly faced with cotton processing enterprises, not cotton growers, which can only play an indirect role in mobilizing cotton planting enthusiasm.

After China's accession to the World Trade Organization (P), cotton imports increased sharply.

According to the data released by the Ministry of agriculture, from January to October this year, China's cotton imports reached 4 million 520 thousand tons, an increase of 90.3% over the same period last year.

For two consecutive years, the price difference between domestic cotton and imported cotton price exceeded 5000 yuan / ton, and the stock of cotton reserves increased from about 4000000 tons to 300 thousand tons.

At the same time, domestic textile enterprises have encountered unprecedented difficulties, affecting the cotton purchasing market.

Many cotton spinning enterprises are generally willing to use imported cotton under cost pressure and market environment.

"imports are increasing, while domestic cotton is used up, prices continue to fall, cotton growers are unwilling to sell, and cotton enterprises can not get domestic cotton and can only turn to imported cotton, thus forming a vicious circle."

According to Chen Wenxiang, director of Plant Protection Station of Huimin County Agricultural Bureau, the comparative advantage of domestic cotton production is gradually disappearing.

but as a staple agricultural product, the importance of cotton is beyond doubt.

Whether it is social benefits or ecological benefits, cotton planting needs to be maintained at a certain scale in China.

Dong Hezhong, deputy director of the cotton research center of Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, believes that the research and planting methods of cotton varieties in China are at a critical stage, and the state must pay enough attention to them.

"Agricultural technology research and promotion cycle is relatively long. At this juncture, good steel must be used on the edge of the knife, we must identify the advantageous areas of cotton production, and provide targeted subsidies and incentives, including increasing support in the pformation of scientific research and achievements, cultivating new cotton varieties with high yield and quality and labor saving, stabilizing planting area and raising planting level."

cotton must be digested by enterprises, and cotton enterprises will be depressed, and cotton production will eventually be dragged down.

Yao Fangqing suggested that the state should also increase support for cotton spinning enterprises so that cotton prices, quality standards and marketing methods will be in line with international standards and solve the problem of "high taxes and low deduction" of cotton textile enterprises' value-added tax as soon as possible.

In addition, cotton reserves should also be improved. Banks should be encouraged to help cotton mills to store cotton and enhance their ability to withstand market risks.