Cotton Farmers Die After A Year Of Drought.

Here world Clothing and shoes Xiaobian of the network introduced to everyone is cotton War: production reduced half price drop, cotton farmers have worked for a year but also inverted.

"In normal years, the yield of cotton is about 600 Jin, but this year it is 320 catties at most." Wang Huanjin, a large cotton farmer in Lidong village, Lixian, Hunan, pointed to the sparse cotton fields and said with a worried look. He said that since 1977, cotton production has never been such a bad harvest except flood year.

This is not just Wang Huanjin's personal experience. In the main cotton producing areas such as the Dongting Lake plain, due to policy adjustments and natural disasters, cotton production in the region has dropped by nearly half that of the normal year. Cotton prices have also dropped to the bottom of recent years, resulting in cotton enterprises not buying cotton and cotton farmers unwilling to sell cotton.

This year, China cancelled the policy of temporary cotton purchase and storage for three consecutive years. The cotton market environment has undergone major changes and entered the era of "post purchase and storage". Cotton prices will gradually return to the market. The post harvest era is bringing a big test to the Southern cotton region.

　　 Cotton grower After a year's work.

The Dongting Lake plain, known as "the land of fish and rice", is located in the central part of China. It stretches across two provinces in Hunan and Hubei. It is an important commodity cotton base in China and a major cotton producing area in two provinces of Hunan and Hubei. At the time of the local cotton acquisition season, reporters do not see much joy.

The "serious decrease of cotton production this year" is a reflection of most cotton farmers in the Dongting Lake plain. Hunan cotton planting second counties Anxiang county supply and marketing cooperatives and other departments have done a survey, local cotton production per unit this year than the normal year dropped by about 40%.

This situation also exists in different degrees in neighboring Gongan County and Songzi counties of Hubei province. Yang Jun, a cotton grower in the bamboo garden town of Gongan County, said the cotton yield in the town was the lowest in recent years.

Abnormal climate is the "culprit" of reducing production. Reporters learned from the Hunan Provincial Meteorological Bureau, this year cotton transplanting initial stage, drought and rain delayed cotton growth, in the latter part of the rainy weather, the occurrence of Fusarium wilt, bud and boll shedding serious, cotton hanging peach seriously reduced. Coupled with the rare drought last year, it has been a natural disaster for second years in the Dongting Lake plain.

The housing leak has been on the lowest level for many years, and cotton prices have fallen to the lowest level in recent years. In the two provinces of Hunan and Hubei provinces, cotton traders are now in the villages. Buy The price is between 2.6 yuan and 2.9 yuan per catty seed cotton, the lowest price in nearly 6 years.

Hu Zuwen, director of Anxiang Cotton Information Center, said that in the first three years, the average selling price of cotton growers was about 3.8 yuan per catty. According to the yield of 600 kg per mu, the gross income of Mu was 2280 yuan. This year, the selling price of cotton farmers was 2.7 yuan, and the gross income of Mu farmers was 350 yuan per mu.

"The harvest is bad, the price is low, and the farmers are losing a lot of money!" Hu Zuwen said.

Li Wenlin of Zhi Zhong village of Anxiang County calculated the cost of seed, fertilizer, pesticide, basement membrane, land transfer, labor and picking up cotton and so on. The cost was 685 yuan. In addition, they invest at least 3 jobs per acre, according to 100 yuan per worker day, 300 yuan is invested.

"The cost of cotton per mu is 985 yuan, which is 945 yuan per mu at the current price, which means that I have worked for a year, and I have to pay for it!" Li Wenlin said.

　 Enterprises are reluctant to accept cotton farmers unwilling to sell.

Prices have dropped to the lowest level in nearly 6 years, and cotton farmers are generally reluctant to sell. At the time of this year, the economic reference Daily reporters could always see the long queue from the company's gate to the warehouse, the large square in the front half of the warehouse, and the traffic was crowded and noisy. But this time the reporter went to the huge stadium.

Pang Haiqing, manager of the small ferry division, said, "people are too low on price to sell cotton." Their company has collected 300 thousand tons since the beginning of this year, and has acquired at least 6 million tons in the same period.

Hu Kaiyou, a cotton trader in Lixian, is also worried about this. He went to the countryside to collect cotton every day. He often drove empty cars and returned empty cars. He said, "in order to save fuel money, from yesterday, I changed to drive a motorcycle to the countryside, to determine which family sold cotton and I drove the truck door again."

Reporter survey found that in previous years, once the cotton farmers are reluctant to sell, the processing enterprises will not be able to sit down and will take the initiative to purchase. Strangely enough, cotton farmers are unwilling to sell this year, and businesses are reluctant to buy them. In Anxiang County, as of the beginning of November, none of the 9 large cotton processing enterprises in the county had bought a scale, only some family mills and small businesses were buying them piecemeal.

Wang Jialong, director of the Yinfeng cotton industry in Songzi, Hubei, said that 4 of the 6 large cotton processing enterprises in Songzi were not buying scales before, but they did not receive much. "All of them are symbolically collected, and the purchase volume is 5% of the same period in the same period."

Why do these processing enterprises prefer warehouse vacancy, machine idle, workers rest, and unwilling to buy cotton processing? Many processing enterprises responsible person reflects, according to the current market, not only farmers lose money, processing enterprises also lose money.

Chen Shaohua and Wang Jialong calculated a detailed account: after the Cotton Traders received the seed cotton, they sent them to the processing factory at a price ranging from 3.05 yuan to 3.15 yuan, and according to the standard rate of 38% for the linen percentage (100 kg of seed cotton and 38 kg of lint) and the cotton seed price of 1 yuan per catty, the cost of the production of one ton of lint was about 13 thousand and 300 yuan, and the processing cost, marketing office cost and loan financial cost were about 1200 yuan. The cost of one ton of lint was about 14 thousand and 500 yuan.

Chen Shaohua said, "according to the current market price, a ton of lint is sold for 14 thousand yuan, which means that every time I buy a ton of lint for processing, I lose 500 yuan. Who would like to do this business?"

　　 Wait-and-see sentiment or "cotton market chaos"

Insiders pointed out that the stalemate caused by "farmers unwilling to sell and enterprises unwilling to accept" was caused by the abolition of the temporary cotton purchase and storage policy. The price of new cotton is entirely determined by the market, and the domestic cotton price should be basically in line with the international cotton price. In this case, on the one hand, farmers have high planting costs and low prices, and naturally do not sell them. On the other hand, the domestic cotton price has dropped, but it is still at a high price compared with the international cotton price. China's cotton spinning enterprises belong to export-oriented manufacturing enterprises. If they want to "go out" and participate in international market competition, they will not dare to buy Cotton domestically. The processing enterprises sandwiched in the middle are in a dilemma. They can neither shut down their businesses nor venture to buy them.

Many grassroots cadres worry that if the current stalemate persists, it is likely to bring multiple risks. The loss of cotton growers is obvious this year. At present, cotton farmers are reluctant to wait and see. There is still a risk of further losses.

Reporters interviewed found that most farmers kept cotton at home, hoping to wait until prices rebounded. In the township of Anxiang County, the cotton farmers during this period were "sleeping, eating, entertaining, making way for cotton", and all the bedrooms, restaurants and main rooms were used to store cotton.

"Economic reference daily" reporter came to Li Wenlin, a large cotton farmer, only to see his house, two big houses in his bedroom, and all of them were filled with cotton. These rooms are usually used for eating and sleeping. Now, in order to pile up the cotton, the family can only put a small table in the kitchen and squeeze to eat.

In order to wait for the price to rise, cotton growers have given up the place where they eat and sleep for cotton storage, but they also take a greater risk. The most worrying thing is fire hazards. The director of Anxiang county supply and Marketing Association told reporters that seed cotton has high requirements for fireproofing, pest control and rodent damage. Farmers generally do not have the corresponding fire-fighting tools. Once a fire breaks out, it will cause huge economic losses to farmers and even endanger human life.