Xinjiang "Long Staple Cotton" First Appeared Below Normal Cotton Prices.

< p > in "one of the three longest staple cotton bases in the world", Awati County of Xinjiang Province, known as China's cotton capital, nearly one hundred thousand farmers are in a predicament of "selling cotton difficultly". The long staple cotton known as "the best in cotton" is suddenly "cold" and the price is even lower than that of ordinary cotton.

In order to lose money, many farmers even add the best cotton to ordinary cotton, and sell it to cotton ginning enterprises reluctantly.

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< p > reporter survey found that from 2012 in the southern Xinjiang cotton purchase scale to late December, Akesu area < a href= "http://www.91se91.com/news/index_s.asp" > long staple cotton < /a > price has been hovering below 8.7 yuan per kilogram, the lowest even when only 8.2 yuan per kilogram; in the same period, the purchase price of local ordinary cotton is always higher than that of long staple cotton.

Local industry insiders say that for more than half a century, the price of this kind of best cotton is not as good as that of ordinary cotton.

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< p > long staple cotton is a fine product of cotton. At present, only China, the United States and Egypt are produced in the world.

In China, the main producing areas are several agricultural farms in Akesu Prefecture Awati county and Xinjiang production and Construction Corps.

In recent years, China's long staple cotton prices fluctuate greatly.

In 2011, when the price of long staple cotton was the highest, nearly 50 thousand yuan per ton, but after that, the price of long staple cotton fell all the way.

Because it has not been included in the national cotton temporary storage and storage area, the sale of long staple cotton is extremely difficult. At present, the price has dropped to less than 23000 yuan.

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< p > "if the state does not take any protective measures again, this important cotton variety will disappear completely from China next year," said Sun Jigui, deputy director of Awati Agricultural Bureau.

According to statistics from Akesu and Nong Yi Shi, the area of long staple cotton in 2012 was less than 800 thousand mu, which was nearly 1/3 less than that of last year.

Among them, the planting area of Awati county is 530 thousand mu, which is about 300 thousand mu less than that of last year.

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< p > long staple cotton is the most important raw material for spinning high count yarn. The average annual demand of China's long staple cotton is 200 thousand tons, and domestic long staple cotton can only meet half of the total value. The top value products and exports of high-end domestic yarn dyed fabrics and home textiles in coastal provinces and cities are less than a href= "http://www.91se91.com/" target= "_blank" > textile > /a > and a href= "http://www.91se91.com/" target= "http://www.91se91.com/".

Tian Liwen, a cotton breeding expert in Xinjiang and a researcher at the Autonomous Region Academy of Agricultural Sciences, said: "if no one planted long staple cotton in Xinjiang in 2013, once the United States wants to clip our necks, the price of long staple cotton in our market will be fully controlled by the American cotton merchants."

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< p > Tian Liwen said, because American long staple cotton is mechanically harvested, the quality is far less than that of long staple cotton produced in Xinjiang.

If the country does not protect its policy again, let the long staple cotton of China disappear and withdraw from the market. Once the market gets warmer, it will be difficult to recover its vitality in a short time.

Therefore, the state's control measures should not only consider the market factors, but also consider the safety of the cotton industry.

The state should also protect and support this kind of small cotton varieties with international advantages. As soon as possible, the Xinjiang long staple cotton should be included in the temporary storage and storage area, so as to ensure a certain amount of seed reserves, so that our country's a href= "http://www.91se91.com/news/index_c.asp" > textile enterprise < /a > has no worries in international competition.

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