Tianjin Cotton Association: Striving To Subsidize Cotton Farmers To Stabilize Regional Economic Development

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At the working conference, the NDRC deployed cotton target price reform work, called for the abolition of temporary cotton purchase and storage, and subsidized cotton farmers in 10 provinces across the country.

Due to the fact that Tianjin has not been included in the subsidy scope, it has aroused great repercussions from cotton growers and cotton processing enterprises in our city, and has repeatedly appealed to the relevant functional departments and trade associations in this city.

To this end, the municipal development and Reform Commission was commissioned by the government to organize relevant departments such as the Municipal Finance Bureau, the Municipal Agriculture Commission, the Ninghe Municipal Bureau of agriculture, the people's Government of the city of Ninghe, the city's Textile Inspection Institute and the city cotton association, and held a special meeting on cotton subsidies in March 5, 2015.

The meeting first affirmed the economic status of cotton and supporting industry chain in the city, especially the economic promotion of Ninghe county.

In 2014, the area of cotton planting in Ninghe was 250 thousand mu, accounting for 43% of the total cultivated land in the county.

According to per capita net income of 1000 yuan / mu, the county cotton output value is 600 million yuan, supporting industry is pulling 300 million yuan, the annual output value of the whole county is 1/10, accounting for 280 thousand of the total annual income of 280 thousand farmers in the county.

According to the person in charge of the local government, in 2014, the annual sales volume of 82 small and medium-sized cotton processing enterprises in Ninghe was 4 billion 660 million yuan (data source county tax), the basic source of employment was local, half a year in accordance with the production period, 60 workers were hired, and the monthly wage was 3500 yuan / person. The total production expenditure exceeded 70 million yuan, and the income was spread to 260 yuan per month, which, to a certain extent, carried the local employment problem.

According to the monitoring data of the districts and counties, the city's Agricultural Department expects that the cotton planting area in Tianjin will be around 300 thousand mu in 2015.

The reason for seed reduction is the decrease in planting income, and the two is restricted by cotton subsidies.

But Tianjin is located in the Gulf of Bohai with a lot of salinized land. For example, some plots in Ninghe, such as corn, rice and other crops, are not effective.

Cotton crops have the characteristics of drought resistance, alkali resistance and easy to handle, and the management techniques are low. Therefore, cotton crops will become the first choice crops in the future for quite a long time.

Itself is the protection of cotton resources,

Cotton is the predominant area of high quality cotton in the whole country, and Ninghe is a demonstration county of high quality cotton.

City fiber inspection department introduced, some plots of cotton can still roll out a cotton, "Tianjin 3" even more famous in the country.

In terms of geographical conditions, Tianjin can not become a major cotton producing area, but it should be protected as a high quality cotton producing area.

In addition, the average cost of construction of cotton processing enterprises is 700-800 yuan / household, the financing channels are complex, the pressure of repayment is large, and the payback period of factory buildings and equipment is far from enough. If there is no cotton processing, how should the processing enterprises go?

Throughout the past ten years Tianjin real estate cotton experienced several big fluctuations, in 2003 small cotton processing enterprise pformation 400 type, scale integration enterprise experienced reshuffle.

In 2008, the first time the state bought and sold, and the cotton business in the mainland was in great trouble. The processing enterprises were forced to backlog heavily. Cotton farmers had no hope of selling cotton, high loans and even forced others to go to the end.

In 2014, Tianjin was excluded from the cotton farmers' subsidy.

The head of the city cotton association said that more efforts should be made for cotton growers and processing enterprises to seek policy buffering in the wave.

We have striving for a green channel for Tianjin to enter and store. Now we still need to call for subsidies on cotton farmers. Reducing planting is not the same as cancelling planting.

In 2014, cotton growers were sown in early April, and the sowing date was not unfair to cotton growers before the subsidy policy was introduced.

Although Tianjin is not the main cotton producing area, it is a high quality cotton producing area. The textile enterprises in Tianjin have a long history and advanced equipment. They are first-class at home and abroad, and have hundreds of thousands of spindles in textile capacity.

If there is no real estate cotton, textile enterprises rely solely on pportation and import, which will be greatly restricted, and it is difficult to give full play to the role of our textile industrial park and free trade zone. Therefore, the short-term solution is to apply for municipal financial subsidies, and in the long run, we must continue to call for the consistency of national policies.

Finally, the municipal development and Reform Commission will summarize the opinions of various departments, and start from the overall situation of stabilizing the regional economic development, safeguarding the vital interests of farmers and developing the cotton industry, and apply for the subsidy funds of Tianjin's financial cotton farmers.