Dezhou'S Cotton Acreage Has Been Reduced By Over 6 In 5 Years.

< p > > a href= "http://www.91se91.com/news/" > cotton planting < /a > the decline of the area is bringing a wide impact on the local economy.

According to the reporter's investigation, in the Xiajin county where the two national cotton fair was held, the cotton trading market, which once enjoyed the reputation of the whole country, has now become a furniture wholesale city, and nearly 40 cotton processing plants gathered around it have changed from the bustling prosperity to a ruined.

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< p > as an important cotton production base in the whole country, Xiajin is known as "Silver City".

Along the 315 provincial roads, 3 kilometers from the city to tsupo village, which was once a well-known cotton distribution center in Xiajin, is located here in the cotton trading market.

But today, the market covering more than 500 acres is full of eyeful scenes, and no cotton trading scene can be seen.

Huge cotton warehouses are now idle or become furniture warehouses.

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< p > there are many cotton processing plants along the 315 provincial road of TA Po village, but these factories are now in a state of disarray. Some of them have been pformed into gas stations, waste stations, warehouses and so on.

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< p > < < a href= > http://www.91se91.com/news/index_c.asp > > Xiajin cotton > /a > market. The victory cotton mill is one of the few remaining cotton processing factories. Its general manager Zhang Qingxia has been engaged in the cotton industry for more than 20 years, and has witnessed the rise and fall of the Zhou Bian area from prosperity to decline. In the past, he repeatedly sighed: "the scenery is no longer!"

< p > cotton as a strategic material, after the reform and opening up, it is still a long-term implementation of the "unified allocation" business model.

Until 1995, Xiajin County, as the first pilot, opened its trading market to the whole country.

After a considerable period of time, Xiajin county is one of the most important cotton trading and gathering places in China.

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"P >" at that time, cotton all over the country was pported to pagoda, Anhui, Hubei, Henan and Hebei.

Many people do not know Xiajin County, but we know that there is a cotton market in Shandong. "

Zhang Qingxia recalled, "cotton acquisition season, three or four kilometers before and after the 315 provincial roads will be blocked up, to cross the road have to squeeze past."

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< p > cotton market is hot, but also brings business prosperity.

"Hotel, restaurant snacks, one by one, yelling, laughter, bustle, every day is like catching up."

Zhang Qingxia said.

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< p > in the peak period, there are only thirty or forty cotton processing plants in the village of TA Po.

"But these years, the cotton market is not good, the cotton mill's business is not good to do, one by one has been poured out, most of the factory's machines have been removed.

Now that I have not closed, I will be home for 10 years, and I am also struggling in difficulties.

Zhang Qingxia said, "before the Spring Festival, we collected hundreds of tons of cotton and did not earn much money, even the interest was not enough.

After the Spring Festival, we stopped working, and the machinery and equipment were idle there.

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< p > the contrast between the past and the present, Zhang Qingxia sighed unceasingly: "before, everyone was jubilant.

Now, all of them drooping their heads.

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"P > Zhang Qingxia, they haven't closed because they can't bear to put down the industry for more than 20 years. He is still waiting for the opportunity:" stay up and see if the market can improve. "

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< p > < < a href= > http://www.91se91.com > > cotton factory < /a > bad business reasons, Zhang Qingxia can see clearly.

On the one hand, there are policy factors in it. "Before, the cotton market in Xiajin county was the first to open, and the cotton processing factories in other places were few. Everyone came to Xiajin, and now there are cotton processing plants everywhere.

Moreover, in recent years, only 400 types of machine processed cotton have been collected by the state, while most of the machines in Xiajin are 200 models, and only 400 of the 400 processing plants in the county are sixteen.

In addition, the source of cotton is also a big problem.

"Cotton sources are inadequate, and cotton processing plants are not enough to eat."

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< p > Qiu Lichang, director of supply and Marketing Association of Xiajin County, also analyzed by the guide newspaper reporter. The decline of Xiajin cottage factory in Ta Po village is one of the reasons for these factories themselves. "Backward technology" is the 200 type machine, and its processing capacity and processing quality are not as good as 400.

Xiajin and the surrounding cotton area declined, cotton shortage is also an important reason.

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< p > Xiajin County cotton trade association secretariat Wang Anjun guide newspaper reporter said, Xiajin County cotton planting area the highest reached nearly 700 thousand mu, but in recent years, continuous decline, to last year has only about 460 thousand acres.

"It is likely to drop to about 400 thousand acres this year."

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< p > in fact, the speed of Xiajin cotton planting area is still "moderate", and the whole cotton growing area of Dezhou is dropping more rapidly.

Ma Junkai introduced that in 2008, the cotton planting area in Dezhou still had 2 million 900 thousand mu, and then decreased year by year, down to 1 million 300 thousand mu last year.

This year, according to the estimated wheat planted, the cotton planting area will continue to drop to about 1 million 100 thousand mu.

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< p > with the fall of Dezhou, the cotton planting area of Shandong province is also declining.

Ma Junkai said that the area of cotton planting in Shandong was 13 million 320 thousand mu in 2008, dropped to 12 million mu in 2009, and dropped to 11 million 700 thousand mu in 2010. This year, it may fall below 10 million mu for the first time.

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< p > over the past few years, cotton planting area has also declined considerably in traditional cotton producing provinces such as Henan and Hebei, which are close to Shandong.

The latest research results of China Cotton Storage Information Center show that the cotton planting area in the Yellow River river basin is 22 million 192 thousand mu this year, down 9.3% compared with the same period last year.

Among them, Shandong dropped by 4.5%, Henan dropped by 12.4%, and Hebei dropped by 13.3%.

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< p > guide reporter came to fan Lou village, Xiajin province cotton planting village 25 days ago. Fan Yudong, Secretary of the village committee, said that the village had more than 4300 mu of land, most of which were saline and alkaline land, and only suitable for planting cotton.

But in recent years, farmers have changed their crops, and this year there are already more than 1300 mu of land for replanting crops.

"Mainly cotton seed is not cost-effective, but also labor."

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< p > Ma Junkai also told reporters in the guide newspaper. "Since 2008, the cloudy weather often occurred in Dezhou from August to the end of September, which greatly affected cotton picking and reduced the output and quality of cotton.

According to the output and price of last year, the yield per mu of seed cotton is about 1300 yuan, while the grain yield can reach 1600 yuan.

Even under favourable weather conditions, the present cotton price will not exceed the grain yield.

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< p > in addition, grain consumption is less and mechanization has been widely adopted.

And the low degree of mechanization of seed cotton, and the need to hire a lot of labor, so that farmers are tied to the land all the year round, this is also an important reason why they abandon cotton to grain.

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< p > although the cotton planting area is decreasing, the Qin Lei guide newspaper reporter of the China Cotton Storage Information Center has analyzed that it will maintain a certain amount in the future, which is of great significance for maintaining the overall supply of cotton in China, and for some saline and alkaline land, the cost of Replanting crops will be larger and will continue to grow cotton.

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< p > for the future, it is suggested that large-scale planting be used instead of farmers to fight alone to reduce the cost of planting cotton.

The reporter has learned that there are already some large cotton growers in Xiajin, but they are still hard to scale.

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< p > in fan Lou village, Du Haixia is the largest cotton farmer, and planted more than 40 mu of cotton last year.

"But the land is rented by households, and it is scattered.

When planting and picking, it also needs to operate on every small plot of land, which is no longer cheaper than a single household. "

Fan Yudong said.

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P > Qiu Lichang is also thinking about scale planting, and it's already working.

At present, he has passed the land circulation of 200 acres of land, "we want to do a pilot, mechanized planting, picking cotton.

The plan has been completed, and the next step will be to win support from the provincial supply and marketing cooperatives.

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< p > "just look at them. If their cotton picking experiment is successful, the cost down may be able to restore the downward trend of cotton planting area."

Ma Junkai said.

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