Cotton City: Cotton Farmers' Phenomenon Of Spreading Cotton

Since the beginning of this year, as the price of imported cotton has continued to rise, the country has begun to reduce cotton imports.

According to customs statistics, China imported 127 thousand and 900 tons of cotton in March, a decrease of 31 thousand and 100 tons from last month, a decrease of 19.6%.

For cotton farmers, they are most concerned about their own gains. If cotton yields are not as good as rice, throwing cotton is also a choice.

However, because rice needed water conservancy, and in the past, cotton had made the ditch and reservoir fail, so they could only turn to corn and potatoes, or simply plant trees.

The director of agriculture in Dean county has said that the autonomy of farmland is in the hands of the common people. The Agricultural Bureau of the county can only conduct guidance, such as guiding farmers to grow corn, grow potatoes, grow mulberry, raise silkworms, etc. if cotton prices are low, they can not be planted forever, and the adjustment of agricultural structure should be carried out.

Before 2014, the state bought cotton at the protective price, and cotton prices ranged from 4.5 to 5 yuan, and now it has dropped to 3 yuan.

Under the influence of multiple disadvantages, farmers can only vote with their feet and give up planting cotton.

In fact, cotton farmers are not only cotton producers in Jiangxi, Hubei, Shandong and so on.

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Sun Liwu, an analyst at an information institution, said that cotton returned to the low price era from the new cotton market in October 2010, down 27% compared to the same period last year. It is expected that this year will basically linger around 13000~14000 yuan / ton.

Sales prices fell by 25%~31% compared to the same period last year.

"Cotton farmers' actual income and food and vegetable gap is too large, cotton planting enthusiasm will continue to decline, it is estimated that the cotton planting area in 2015 fell to 4900~5000 mu, down 18%~19% compared to the same period."

The decline of cotton planting was also impacted by imported cotton. In 2014, China imported 2 million 440 thousand and 700 tons of cotton, a decrease of 1 million 709 thousand and 700 tons compared with the same period last year. Our country imposed a quota system on imported cotton, and only 1% of the cotton tariffs were imposed on the quota. If it exceeds, it will receive a 40% tariff.

Sun Liwu said in an interview, "at home and abroad"

The price difference is basically flat. Before it was calculated according to the sliding tax, only 894 thousand tons of 1% quotas were issued this year, but 1% of the customs clearance and the domestic circulation of cotton still had a price difference of 2000 yuan / ton.

In Xu Conghui's view, the price of domestic cotton market is greatly influenced by imported cotton. The degree of mechanization in the United States is high, and the labor cost in Africa is low. They have their own advantages. The labor cost of our country is high. If the cotton is sold for two yuan a Jin, farmers will lose money. The enterprises will operate independently and they will be adjusted by the market, so they will be willing to import cotton.