2013 Cotton Fell 2.9% In The Same Year.

< p > to further grasp the intention of cotton planting in 2013, the market monitoring system of the national a href= "http://www.91se91.com/news/" > cotton < /a > was launched again in mid March to investigate the national cotton planting area intention.

The samples were taken from 15 provinces (autonomous regions), 89 cotton planting counties (cities, farms), and 4493 designated cotton planting information contact households.

The survey showed that the average cotton planting area in China was 72 million 644 thousand mu, a decrease of 2 million 187 thousand mu compared with the same period in the previous year, a decrease of 2.9%, narrowing by 3.1 percentage points compared with the survey results in November 2012.

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< p > the intention area for cotton planting in the northwest inland area is 33 million 167 thousand mu, an increase of 2.3% over the same period last year, an increase of 3.1 percentage points over the November 2012 survey.

Among them, the intention of cotton planting in Xinjiang increased significantly, with an increase of 3.3 percentage points.

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< p > the cotton planting area in the Yellow River river basin is 22 million 192 thousand mu, down 9.3% compared with the same period last year. The decline is 0.5 percentage points larger than that in November 2012.

Among them, the intention of planting cotton in Shandong decreased by 4.5% compared with the same period last year, and the decline increased by 0.1 percentage points. Henan's year-on-year fall by 12.4%, the decline by 3 percentage points, and Hebei's year-on-year decline of 13.3%, a 0.3 percentage point decline.

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< p > the cotton planting area in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River is 16 million 827 thousand mu, down 5.4% compared with the same period last year, and the decrease is 5.5 percentage points lower than that in November 2012.

Among them, the cotton planting intentions in Hubei, Anhui and Hunan have picked up, the decline has narrowed by 10.1, 5.5 and 4.5 percentage points respectively, and the intention of cotton planting in Jiangsu has continued to decline, and the decline has increased by 6.2 percentage points.

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< p > the results of this survey are compared with the results of November 2012. Xinjiang's < a href= "http://www.91se91.com > > cotton area < /a > the intention of expanding seed is obvious. The cotton planting intention of the Yellow River River Basin in the inland cotton area has further decreased, and the Yangtze River Basin has rebounded slightly.

The main reasons for the change of farmers' planting intention are: first, the government has increased the policy support for the construction of high quality cotton base every year, guiding the Xinjiang cotton area to gradually increase the scale, specialization and mechanized production level, and ensure that Xinjiang's < a href= "http://www.91se91.com" > cotton planting > /a > stable and high yield; the state's temporary storage and purchasing policy helps boost the scale efficiency of Xinjiang's cotton planting; two, the 2012 countries increased the temporary purchasing and storage strength, and the purchase price of cotton seed in the mainland rose year after year, and the enthusiasm of cotton growers was restored.

According to the national cotton market monitoring system data, in the 10-11 month of 2012, the average purchase price of 3 grade seed cotton in the mainland was 4.2 yuan / kg, up 0.08 yuan / Jin, or 2.1%.

But in general, affected by natural disasters and the comparative benefits of grain and cotton, the sowing structure of dryland crops in the Yellow River River Basin has been adjusted continuously. The scale of wheat and maize concentrated planting is increasing. Three, the cultivation techniques of wheat and cotton intercropping are mostly used in the Yangtze River Valley, which is slightly better than that of direct seeding in the cotton growing area of the Yellow River basin, which is conducive to a slight rise in the local cotton farmers' planting intention.

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