Xinjiang'S Purchase Price Has Reduced Its Cotton Planting Income Basically Stable.

The Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region agriculture department agricultural investigation statistics bulletin shows that in 2012, Xinjiang cotton The planting area reached 24 million 700 thousand mu, an increase of 660 thousand mu compared with 2011, an increase of 2.75%. Among them, the area of cotton planting area was 16 million 460 thousand and 400 mu, an increase of 439 thousand and 100 mu, an increase of 2.74% compared with that of the previous year. The cotton planting area of the Corps was 8 million 300 thousand mu, an increase of 260 thousand mu compared with that of the previous year, an increase of 3.2%. It is also a bumper harvest year. Even more gratifying is that in 2012, Xinjiang's total cotton output accounted for the first time in the country's total cotton output more than 50%, reaching 3 million 180 thousand tons. So far, Xinjiang has been the first in the country for 20 consecutive years to achieve cotton planting area, yield per unit area, total output, quality and output.

But behind the increase of cotton yield, a series of market environment changes, such as the continuous increase of cotton planting costs, rising labor costs, and large fluctuations in cotton prices, bring new difficulties to the cotton planting system in Xinjiang, and put forward new strategic thinking.

Storage and warehousing basically closed. Cotton yields remained stable.

In March, the acquisition of seed cotton in Xinjiang has come to an end. Only a few enterprises in the market are buying sporadically, and the seed cotton purchased by enterprises is still mainly used for storage. Most of the cotton ginning mills have no lint at present, and a few of the cotton ginning plants have surplus. They are mainly prepared to store and store the lint instead of storage. A few cotton that do not meet the storage requirements enter the spot market, and the retail price is about 20200 yuan / ton (net weight). The price of the storage standard is 19700 yuan / ton ~19800 yuan / ton, which is obviously lower than the storage price. In general, there is almost no lint in the hands of the ginning plant.

Although the purchase price of new cotton has been reduced and the cost of cotton planting has increased, the overall income of cotton growers in Xinjiang has not been greatly affected by the increase in cotton production per unit area. The cotton planting income has remained stable.

Xu Jianjun, a farmer who has been planting cotton for 16 years in Shing Wan village of Shawan County in Xinjiang, said: "cotton harvest is good in 2012, and the yield per mu is more than 400 kilograms." He planted 35 mu of cotton this year. Because of the mechanized management mode of the Corps, the cotton yield per unit area is quite good locally. He said that the cost of seed cotton includes cotton seeds, machine farming fees, agricultural fertilizer and fertilizer, and so on. Among them, the cost of artificial picking has accounted for a big head, and the cost of cotton per mu is about 1800 yuan, and the yield of cotton per mu is 250 kilograms in order to maintain capital. But the actual cotton price is a little different from his expectations. He said: "according to the state's announced purchase and storage price conversion. Unginned cotton It should be around 8.6 yuan per kilogram, but when it comes to cotton, it is found that the purchase price is around 8 yuan. We also read the news and knew that the market was not good this year, so we didn't hoard cotton and sold it early. Xu Jianjun believes that in recent two years, the national cotton temporary purchase and storage policy has been carried out, and the interests of cotton farmers are guaranteed. But if we want to get higher income, we have to find another way. In addition to cotton, he planted crops such as wheat and corn this year. He said, "matching species is a small risk."

While cotton farmers are basically satisfied with cotton prices, the cotton companies are actually feeling the pressure. Reporters learned that, because the market price is significantly lower than the purchase price. Cotton enterprises If you want to make a profit, you must rely on it. However, due to the constraints of storage capacity, railway transport capacity, speed of public inspection, processing capacity and some cotton grades, the cotton that does not conform to the standard of storage will face the dilemma of being unable to enter and store. To this end, all cotton enterprises have strengthened their own management, so as to avoid risks.