Cotton Is No Longer "Economic". Its Income Per Mu Is Only 1000 Yuan.

< p > < < a href= > http://sjfzxm.com/news/index_x.asp > > /a > output, cotton growers feel that planting cotton is no longer "economic" and reduces planting area.

Cotton production problems are waking us up. We must guard against such a "diseconomy" situation in grain production.

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< p > first, labor input is no longer "economic".

Now other kinds of grain crops, from sowing to harvesting, have basically been fully mechanized.

Farmers will settle accounts and spend no more than a week at their own time in the fields.

But seed cotton is not good, the production cycle of cotton is long, the link is many, the level of mechanization is low.

Cotton branches, pinch edges, kill cotton bugs, pick up cotton, and even the fields are ploughed several times, inside and outside at least one month.

Take picking links as an example. The data show that about 30% of the world's cotton is picked by machines, and China's recovery rate is only about 8.2% in 2012.

In the context of the rising opportunity cost of agricultural production, it is obviously not cost-effective to let farmers put a lot of labor into cotton production.

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< p > secondly, planting income is no longer "economic".

In the same field, cotton can only grow in one season, and grain crops can grow in wheat and corn for two seasons.

Although the price of cotton is still higher than that of grain prices, the price of wheat and cotton has not been as satisfactory as it used to be because the minimum purchase price of wheat has increased year by year.

According to data from Shandong, the average yield of lint cotton in the province was 65 kg / mu last year.

According to the 2014 cotton target price of 19800 yuan / ton released, the revenue per mu is about 1200 yuan.

This is basically the same as the two season's grain income. The income gap with the fruits and vegetables is very large.

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< p > when the input and output links are not satisfactory, it is no wonder why farmers feel cotton is "not economical".

When cash crops are no longer "economic", it is no wonder that planting area will drop.

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< p > cotton production problems are waking us up. We must guard against such a "diseconomy" situation in grain production.

In recent years, the trend of high input and high cost of grain production has become increasingly evident. The situation of low grain yield and relatively low efficiency is difficult to change in the short term.

At the same time, the income of farmers engaged in non-agricultural labor increased significantly, the growth rate from non-agricultural income was much higher than that from agriculture, and farmers in some areas began to "hate agriculture" and "abandoned agriculture". Even if they chose to work in agriculture, the tendency of non grain production was also more serious.

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< p > ensuring food security is inseparable from the enthusiasm of farmers to grow grain for farming.

The core of mobilizing farmers to grow grain is to make farmers grow grain profitable.

To ensure farmers' income from grain production, one must make up and two should help.

On the one hand, on the one hand, we should continue to expand the total amount of subsidies while exploring the formation of a linkage mechanism between agricultural subsidies and grain production, ensuring that there are more subsidies for many kinds of grain producers and keeping farmers' productive enthusiasm; on the other hand, we must improve the grain price formation mechanism so that grain prices can be kept at a reasonable level, and farmers can increase production and income through price support.

At the moment, just like changing the mode of production, raising the level of mechanization and reducing the cost of production is the realistic choice of cotton farmers. Grain farmers should also ensure that input and output are more economical.

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