Cotton Temporary Purchase And Storage Policy To Implement Cotton Textile Industry Questioned

< p > the 2013 cotton temporary purchase and storage plan has been released recently. It is clear that 2013/2014 will continue to open up and store up temporarily. The price of temporary storage and storage will remain unchanged, and the quality of storage and purchase will be carried out according to the new cotton standard.

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< p > because the market has already fully digested the plan, < a href= "http://sjfzxm.com/news/index_q.asp" > storage and purchase plan < /a > has little influence on the market.

Since the implementation of the temporary purchase and storage policy, the domestic cotton price has been higher than the international cotton price for 5000 yuan / ton for a long time.

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< p > the purpose of implementing the temporary purchasing and storage policy is to stabilize the market expectations of cotton producers, operators and cotton enterprises, protect the interests of cotton farmers and ensure market supply.

However, with the sharp increase in the number of purchases and storage in 2012, the temporary purchase and storage policy showed many problems.

From the actual results, cotton farmers actually gain little, while the international competitiveness of cotton textile enterprises has been weakened.

How to realize the protection of cotton farmers' interests and achieve the win-win of cotton and cotton textile industry chain has become a hot topic in cotton and < a href= "http://sjfzxm.com/news/index_c.asp" > cotton textile industry < /a >.

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< p > < strong > cotton planting intention continued to decline < /strong > < /p >

< p > despite the support from domestic purchasing and storage prices, the enthusiasm of domestic cotton growers in recent years is still not high.

China's cotton production boom index (CCPPI) for the first time in 2012 showed a sharp decline in the past 10 years, down from 235 in January 2012 to 185 in October (the highest 330 points in the past 10 years), and back to 199 in December.

It dropped to 185 in January 2013 and 195 in February.

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< p > > a href= "http://sjfzxm.com/news/index_cj.asp" > China Cotton Association < /a > February cotton planting intention survey data showed that domestic cotton area was 68 million 160 thousand mu, down 6.8% compared with the same period last year, the lowest record in 10 years.

According to the report, most cotton growers have decided to cotton planting near planting. Among the 2963 cotton farmers surveyed, 42.4% of the cotton farmers were prepared to reduce cotton planting area, 9.1% of the cotton growers were prepared to increase, 46.4% of which were the same as last year, and 2.1% of the cotton farmers are still hanging around.

According to the weighted average of cotton planting intentions of cotton farmers surveyed, the average planting intention of cotton growers in the whole country decreased by 9.4% compared with 2011.

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< p > from the main cotton growing areas, the cotton planting area in the main cotton growing areas in the mainland has been declining in recent years except Xinjiang cotton area.

It is understood that in 2012, Shandong Dezhou cotton seed area reduced to 1 million 300 thousand mu, more than half more than in 2008.

Shandong's cotton planting area has dropped from 20 million mu in the 80s to less than 10 million acres today.

According to the National Bureau of statistics, the cotton planting area in Henan also decreased from 10 million 540 thousand mu in 2007 to 5 million 940 thousand mu in 2011, a decrease of 40%.

Under this situation, the national cotton market monitoring system predicts that the national cotton planting intentional area will be reduced by 6% in 2013.

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< p > at the same time, the study shows that cotton quality has generally declined except Xinjiang cotton.

According to the expert group of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in the past 5~10 years, the hollow rate of cotton has been raised and its intensity has been decreasing.

China Agricultural University professor has studied the cotton situation at home and abroad in recent years. It is considered that the gap between the quality of cotton and the international cotton in China is widening, while the planting cost and price are rising.

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< p > < strong > cotton farmers have low actual income < /strong > < /p >

< p > why is the price of cotton production in China higher than that in other countries, and the cotton planting area will shrink? < /p >

< p > surveys show that the main reason is that the cost of seed cotton is too high.

The survey organized by the Xinjiang autonomous region development and Reform Commission showed that the total cost of cotton per mu was 1806.85 yuan in 2012, an increase of 176.02 yuan over the previous year, an increase of 10.79%.

Among them, the production cost is 1462.63 yuan, an increase of 121.21 yuan over the previous year, an increase of 9.04%, and the land cost of 344.22 yuan, an increase of 54.81 yuan over the previous year, an increase of 18.94%.

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< p > the main reason for the high cost of cotton growing in China is the low efficiency of cotton production.

Cotton cultivation in China is mainly artificial, and the mechanization and labor productivity of cotton planting in China are urgently needed to be improved compared with the higher level of mechanization in the United States.

According to rough calculation, the per capita output of cotton in China is about 1/500 of the average per capita output in the United States. From the perspective of labor productivity, the productivity of cotton growers in China is about 1/200 of the labor productivity of cotton textile industry in China.

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< p > the purpose of collecting and storing policies is to protect the interests of cotton growers. But from the actual results, the actual benefits of farmers are far lower than those of the state.

Taking 2011/2012 as an example, the purchase and storage price of cotton in the 2011/2012 year is 19800 yuan / ton, the average price of cotton seeds sold by cotton farmers is about 7.7 yuan / kg, the cost of planting farmers is about 1500 yuan, and the actual income of farmers is about 260 yuan each time they sell a ton of lint.

The purchase and storage of cotton is the acquisition of processed lint, rather than directly collecting cotton seeds from cotton farmers, and the interests of cotton processing enterprises are directly protected.

The average price of cotton seed sold by cotton growers is 7.7 yuan / kg, cottonseed meal 2280 yuan / ton, cottonseed 1.37 yuan / kg, cotton lint 7890 yuan / ton, processing cost 800 yuan / ton, each ton is stored at 19800 yuan / ton, and cotton processing enterprises earn more than 1000 yuan per ton, much higher than cotton farmers' income.

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< p > and because the policy of national cotton purchasing and storage has greatly weakened the incentive function of market price and competition, the domestic cotton growers generally do not weigh heavily in the process of planting, and the input in cultivation of cotton varieties and improvement of planting technology is also seriously inadequate.

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< p > < strong > cotton direct subsidy voice > /strong > /p >

Objectively speaking, the temporary purchasing and storage policy ensured the smooth operation of the cotton market, curbed the sharp decline in cotton prices and avoided the difficulty of selling cotton. P

However, the temporary purchase and storage policy is also a double-edged sword. In 2011, domestic cotton prices were on average higher than the international price of 5639 yuan / ton, and the average price difference in 2012 was 4411 yuan / ton.

Domestic cotton prices have been higher than the international cotton prices for a long time, greatly reducing the international competitiveness of textile and clothing. In 2012, they exported 254 billion 920 million US dollars, an increase of only 2.8% over the same period last year.

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< p > how to realize the interests of both cotton farmers and cotton and cotton textile industry has become a hot topic in the cotton and cotton textile industry.

The relevant textile enterprises believe that we should increase subsidies for cotton farmers, so that we can achieve direct subsidy to cotton farmers and protect the interests of cotton farmers from the system design.

The CPPCC proposal of the Central Committee of the China Association for democracy promotion in 2013 suggested that we should deepen the reform of the cotton circulation system and pilot a direct subsidy policy for cotton planting.

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< p > direct subsidy to cotton planting not only directly uses financial expenditure to cotton farmers, but also helps to encourage input in improving cotton quality.

Taking into account the scale, technology, quality, climate and management advantages of Xinjiang in the field of cotton cultivation, the state proposes a direct subsidy policy for the cotton planting in Xinjiang, that is, in addition to retaining the current subsidy of 15 yuan per mu of cotton seed, the comprehensive agricultural subsidy will be increased by 110 yuan, so as to effectively increase the comparative benefits of Xinjiang cotton planting and stabilize the economic income of cotton growers or cotton planting entities. Under the condition of continuously improving the efficiency of cotton production, irrigation and picking, it will enhance the effective supply of Xinjiang to the domestic cotton market, consolidate the important position of Xinjiang as the national cotton production base, and lay the foundation for the promotion of cotton seed direct subsidy policy in the whole country.

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