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Sheyang Cotton Association: Survey Report On Cotton Planting Intention In Sheyang County

2013/1/17 13:40:00 53

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after the end of the annual cotton sale, < a href= "http://sjfzxm.com/news/index_p.asp > > Sheyang County Cotton Association < /a >, the cotton planting intention of cotton farmers in 2013 was investigated again. The results showed that although most cotton growers increased their cotton planting income in 2012 over the previous year, the net income was still relatively low. In addition, due to the fact that land spanfer, labor spanfer, high production costs continued to rise, and cotton labor remuneration was low, cotton farmers' confidence in planting cotton was still insufficient, and the area of intentional cotton planting would still be reduced to a certain extent. 
 cotton yield in January and 2012. > a href= "http://sjfzxm.com/news/index_p.asp" > Sheyang < /a > County Cotton Association survey. In 2012, the average yield of seed cotton in the county was 236 kg, an increase of 45 kg compared with the same period, an increase of 23.56%. The average selling price is 7.96 yuan per kilogram, an increase of 0.66 yuan compared with that of the previous year, an increase of 9.04%. Cotton growers' cotton planting income (including seed subsidy) is 1893.56 yuan, excluding the various kinds of costs paid in cash, including income from self employment, reaching 1352.28 yuan, an increase of 504.28 yuan compared with the same period last year, an increase of 59.4%, but the net income is only 361.75 yuan, accounting for 19.1% of the total income. 
 two, cotton planting intention. the survey expanded to 6 towns, 20 villages and 120 cotton planting households. In 2012, the total cotton planting area was 838.1 mu. In 2013, the intention of planting cotton was stable in 61 households, accounting for 50.8% of the total number of households surveyed, and 429 mu of cotton planting area. 51 households were reduced by a different margin, accounting for 42.5% of the total number of households surveyed, with a total reduction of 109.4 mu. Only 8 households increased, accounting for 6.7% of the total number of households surveyed, with an additional area of 15.8 mu. The total annual cotton planting area is 744.5 mu, a decrease of 93.6 Mu compared with that of the previous year, a decrease of 11.12%. The rate of decline increased by 2.2 percentage points over that of autumn sowing. Of course, this is only the current intention, and there will be changes later. In the survey, cotton growers told us that some households were still in the wander of species and species before the final decision was made. Yang Hehong, a big cotton farmer, planted more than 1400 mu of cotton in 2012. The net income of Mu was over 500 yuan, an increase of nearly 800 yuan compared with the same period last year. When it comes to this year's cotton planting intention, it is also hesitant to decide again when the state's new purchasing and storage policy or other cotton policy comes out. According to the analysis of this survey, the planting area of a href= "http://cailiao.sjfzxm.com/Matertial/show/default.aspx" > cotton < /a > will shrink to about 210 thousand acres this year, although it has decreased by more than 20 thousand mu compared with the previous year, but the reduction has obviously narrowed. 
 > strong > three, the reason for the continued reduction of the intention area. The cotton planting income of cotton growers has increased considerably, but the area is still difficult to stabilize in 2012 /strong. Why? Cotton growers tell us that in addition to the low income of cotton planting and other crops such as grain, there are still several points: first, land spanfer leads to a reduction in cotton area. Haitong town is a large cotton planting town. The cotton planting area has basically stabilized around 40 thousand mu over the past years. But in recent years, some cultivated land in the whole town has been spanferred at a price of 900-1000 yuan per mu, with a total area of nearly 15 thousand mu, so that the cotton area in the whole town has been reduced by nearly half. The two is the spanfer of rural labor force. With the quickening pace of urbanization and industrialization in rural areas, more and more young workers are turning to business workers, who are mainly engaged in cotton production with older, physically weak elderly and women. There is no deep understanding of the new cotton planting technology, let alone high yield cultivation. According to the association, the output of cotton seeds per mu in 2012 was more than 280 kilograms, while the low yield was less than 150 kilograms. The direct income of cotton planting was over 1000 yuan, which made some low labors lacking labor force less confident in this year's cotton planting and reduced their planting in succession. The three is the high price of producer goods. The prices of seeds, pesticides and fertilizers increase by 5%-10% per year. Take the chemical fertilizer that occupies the higher cost of physicochemical cost as an example. At the beginning of 2012, the retail price of a brand of urea was only 105 yuan per 50 kilograms. When cotton entered the sowing period, it gradually increased, and it reached 125 yuan when it applied to flower and boll fertilizer. It rose nearly 20% in the past few months, and cotton farmers were miserable. The four is the low remuneration of cotton producers. According to the data, the price of cotton production is higher than that of labor export. Cotton production is laborious and laborious, and the cost of activation is great. From winter turning to plucking to the end of picking field, many processes can not be replaced by machinery. In general, the amount of labor per mu is about 25 days, and the return of labor is only about 40 yuan per day. In 2012, the average unit price of the county is 42.15 yuan, only half of the income of the local work. Five is influenced by comparative factors. Compared with grain production, cotton farmers generally feel that there are three disadvantages: cotton production is not as stable as grain. Two, state subsidies are not as much as food. Three, the minimum annual price is not as high as that of grain. All of these directly affect cotton growers' enthusiasm for planting cotton and make the annual cotton area difficult to stabilize.