National Cotton Will Establish Cotton Supermarkets To Promote Cotton Circulation

In Shijia Village, Tangfang Town, Gaoqing County, Shandong Province, the reporter met Zheng Baoju, a 61 year old cotton farmer. His family planted 3 mu of cotton this year. Due to several heavy rains in July, the yield per mu was less than 400 jin, about 150 jin less than usual. Laozheng said: "Although the opening price reached 4.4 yuan per kilogram, 40 cents higher than last year, it still doesn't make money."

According to the data provided by Shandong Cotton Association, this year Shandong's cotton planting area is 9.5 million mu, down 600000 mu, and the output is about 600000 tons, down 100000 tons. At present, cotton purchase has been carried out in an all-round way, but the purchase progress is slow. The reasons are: on the one hand, cotton farmers expect cotton prices to rise further, and generally refuse to sell; On the other hand, acquisition enterprises have high cost of storage and acquisition, and are generally in a loss state, many enterprises stop collecting. The comparative benefit of cotton planting is low, and the cotton field area is reduced

After calculating the planting cost, Zheng Baoqi, who has planted cotton all his life, will come at once: 360 yuan of base fertilizer (1 bag of diammonium), 80 yuan of topdressing (40 kg of urea), 80 yuan of harrowing, 50 yuan of sowing, 200 yuan of watering, 80 yuan of plastic film, and 200 yuan of medicine (with seed dressing and medicine) will be applied to one mu of cotton field. Excluding labor costs, the cost input of one mu of cotton field is about 1000 yuan. This year, the cotton yield is 400 jin per mu, and the price is more than 4 yuan per jin, excluding the cost and income of 600 yuan per mu.

Looking at the livelihood of the people around him, Lao Zheng felt even worse. Gaoqing's Tangfang celery is a special industry. This year's celery market is good, and the income per mu can reach 7000~8000 yuan, ten times more than that of grain and cotton crops. The income from cotton is about the same as that from grain, but all grain planting has been mechanized, so it does not delay working, and it makes a lot of money.

Han Zhaopu, director of Gaoqing County Cotton Production Office, said that the labor ratio for cotton and grain planting was about 50 ∶ 1, or even more. Now farmers are going out to work after planting grain crops, and the income of migrant workers has generally risen to 70~100 yuan/day. Now there is no comparative advantage in cotton planting.

Gaoqing County, located in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, is one hundred kilogram lint county in China. In the 1980s and 1990s, the cotton field area here was nearly 400000 mu, accounting for about 70% of the cultivated area. Now it has dropped sharply to 70000 mu. "This number has been basically stable in recent years, but most of them are engaged in cotton planting in marginal areas, scattered areas and saline alkali land, mainly middle-aged and elderly people and farmers who cannot go out to work. Cotton is also mainly reserved for their own use," said Han Zhaopu.

The same situation also occurred in Dongying City, Shandong Province. In recent years, Dongying cotton has suffered many disasters, but cotton farmers' income has not increased due to the increase of cotton prices, resulting in the reduction of planting area. The reporter learned from Dongying Agricultural Bureau that the cotton planting area in Dongying this year is 2048400 mu, a decrease of 5401000 mu compared with last year, and it is expected that the area will be reduced next year. He Chuanmin is a cotton broker in Mengjun Village, Tangfang Town. As soon as Xinmian was listed, he began to purchase it. "The way of purchase is to go through the streets and visit people, but most of the time there is no market." Reluctantly, he had to move to Dongying, Dezhou and other places to purchase cotton. He said that since 2011, the state has started to purchase state-owned cotton, and the purchase price has been rising year by year. In order to keep abreast of the cotton market, he spent 500 yuan to order mobile phone information. However, no matter how close it is, the number of acquisitions is not as good as before. "Twenty years ago, the annual purchase volume was up to 7 million jin, and last year we received 700000 jin," He Chuanmin said.

Zibo rises steadily spin The company is a small cotton textile enterprise located in the street of Tianzhen Town. Zhang Weidong, the general manager, is also worried these days. There are two main channels for the company to use cotton, one is to import noil from abroad, and the other is to buy from cotton textile enterprises with self import and export rights. The price of imported cotton is low, about 4000 yuan per ton. "The problem is that the import quota is too small. There are more than 20 Gaoqing cotton textile enterprises, and only 4 enterprises can enjoy the cotton import quota. At present, the cost of local cotton acquisition is too high, so it can not be collected. In recent years, CCSC cotton is sold in large quantities every day, and only some large enterprises with large scale and strong strength participate in the auction, and small enterprises are unable to participate in the auction." Zhang Weidong said.

Han Zhaopu said that this will inevitably lead to industry reshuffle, and SMEs will exit the market due to their inability to operate. It is expected that in the next few years, half of the textile enterprises in Gaoqing will quit the cotton textile industry.

Several insiders suggested that the current national cotton reserve policy has been difficult to adapt to market changes, and commercial reserves should be put forward in due time to supplement national reserves and participate in national regulation. At the same time, we should promote the modern logistics planning of cotton as soon as possible. It is suggested that in recent years, relying on large cotton or textile enterprises, we should establish cotton supermarkets to promote the circulation of cotton.