Su Cotton Daily: Cotton Sales Continue To Slump In Yancheng

Since entering October, the local weather has been mainly cloudy and cloudy. Two cold air effects have led to more obvious cooling and windy weather processes. The temperature difference between day and night has been enlarged, but there is no rainfall. The average sunshine duration is more than 9 hours. The maximum temperature during the day is basically stable at 21~25 degrees. Cotton grower Picking is very beneficial. The agricultural sector in Dafeng City found that most farmers put emphasis on picking cotton first, and the whole national day holiday returned to farmers. Cotton fields were basically cotton picking labor or tending to broadcast the fields. Basically, there was no mention of selling cotton. Most farmers expressed reluctance to sell cotton on the grounds of low price and small quantity. Therefore, it is quite possible to form a one-stop cotton sale in the future.

The cotton association of Sheyang county has carried out a follow up investigation on the cotton picking situation of 20 representative cotton farmers in the county. By the end of this month, 8052 kg of cotton seed was harvested and 110.5 kg per mu, 54.1% of which were estimated to be 75.5 kg, compared with the estimated output of 54.1%. Speed of progress It also accelerated by 37.3 percentage points. Compared with the same period last year, although the average harvest per mu is less than 27 kilograms, the picking rate has increased by 5 percentage points over the same period last year due to the reduction of cotton production. But there are few farmers selling cotton, and almost all of the new year's resources are confined to farmers' homes.

According to the weather trend forecast of the meteorological department, most parts of Yancheng may have precipitation at the end of this month to the beginning of next month, but the duration will be short and the rainfall will not be too large. According to the analysis of the growth of cotton field and the picking progress of cotton farmers, it is believed that in late October, the cotton harvest will be concentrated in the whole region. According to the farmers in Sheyang and Dafeng old cotton area, the output of cotton is reduced this year, and the income is also reduced because of the market price drop. Even if the labor input in the production cost of farmers is not considered, the income of planting one mu of cotton is not as good as that of a long season corn. Judging from all kinds of performance and inquiries, the cotton area in Yancheng will continue to shrink in the coming year and will be larger and faster. With the approaching of autumn sowing and the promotion of land circulation and joint farming, the time of cotton picking and closing and clearing the fields will be earlier than in previous years. A large number of transfer fields and joint cropping fields have no cotton layout. The large area of continuous planting cotton is no longer a characteristic spot in the locals.

Cotton sales, although picking up speed, but the current situation of the city's sales is still sluggish. Among the 20 cotton farmers surveyed by the Sheyang Cotton Association, only 10 households have already started to sell, accounting for 50% of the total survey. Some of them only sold the cotton with poor initial quality, and the total sales volume was only 3291 kilograms, accounting for 40.87% and 22.03% of the picking and expected output respectively, and 27.2 and 10.07 percentage points behind the ratio. The main reasons are: the low purchase price and the reluctant sale of cotton farmers; the enterprises can not raise their prices and carry greater loads. business risk 。 The investigation in Dafeng City is far less than that in Sheyang. The survey personnel said three "less than half", and the half of the cotton enterprises that were invested in the acquisition were half of the total, and half of the cotton enterprises in the acquisition process received less than half of the total processing capacity. The total purchase volume accounted for less than half of the total resources from the field. The three "less than one and a half" showed that the Yancheng golden autumn cotton market, which was brilliant in the past, was so low and thin. From the current situation of the local factories that have been collected into cotton, the average purchasing price of the local enterprises is about 6 yuan per kilogram in the near future. After the middle of this month, it rises slightly, but it is also 0.05-0.10 up and down. In Sheyang, a small number of peddlers are collecting and collecting. This also makes the price of cotton seed sold in the county slightly lower than that in other areas, because hawkers have to make a difference in the cost of labor services. Dafeng, however, is mostly sold directly to enterprises by a single cotton grower. Most of them are some big aunt of the countryside. There are not many kinds of cotton and fir, and the output is low. The top quality white cotton can be sold to 37-38% yuan for 3.20-3.30 yuan a Jin. However, according to our understanding, most of the farmers who have not yet sold new cotton are quite common, and most farmers are looking forward to selling them for sale. In 2015, the sharp drop in cotton planting area in Yancheng will be doomed.