Analysis Of The Reasons For The Decrease Of Cotton Planting Area In 2015

People often say "good rain knows the season". At present, too much rain in Hubei is really annoying.

The growth of crops, including them, is a problem.

An agricultural personage in Hubei introduced that this year's rainfall in Hubei is very rich, which has a bad effect on cotton growth and development. Because cotton is a dry land crop, it needs less water in the growth stage of cotton seedlings. If the rain is too much, it will not only cause cotton Damping off, but also cause the accumulated temperature to be too low, which will affect the growth and development of cotton.

A department head of a cotton enterprise in Zhongxiang, Hubei, said that almost every week this year Zhongxiang had precipitation, which was much more than that of last year.

At present, all cotton plants are pplanted to the field. This is the time when cotton seedlings are concentrated.

Excessive rainy weather has slowed down the growth and development of cotton. For now, the growth of cotton seedlings is not ideal.

Because of the poor cotton market this year, cotton growers do not want to spend much time and material cost in planting and managing cotton seedling development. They will also image cotton growth to a certain extent.

The head of the Department said that in previous years, the cotton fields in the main cotton producing areas of Zhongxiang were able to see a large area of cotton fields, but now they are sparse and sparse. Since 2014, the area of cotton planting has been greatly reduced.

The cotton monitoring system launched by the national cotton market monitoring system in March showed that the cotton planting area in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River in 2015 was 8 million 376 thousand mu, down 33.8% from the same period last year, and the cotton producing province in Hubei dropped by 35.7% compared with the same period last year.

The main reasons are as follows:

1.

Poor seed cotton purchase price is low.

It is understood that Zhongxiang local seed cotton purchase price in 2.2-2.6 yuan / kg (Tong Hua), even so is the price of no market, local enterprises are willing to purchase processing, because the local processing of 3128 grade cotton prices have dropped to 13000 yuan / tons below.

2, the impact of land pfer policy.

In November 2014, the general office of the State Council issued the "opinions on guiding the orderly pfer of rural land management rights and developing appropriate scale operation of agriculture", requiring all localities and departments to conscientiously implement them in combination with the actual situation.

Take Hubei Zhongxiang as an example, the cost of local land contract has risen to 1000 yuan / mu. Many farmers feel that hard farming has made such a lot of income. Therefore, the positive pfer of land, especially some excellent land resources, is more and more popular among contractors.

However, due to the fact that the contractor has no benefit in planting cotton at present, he has replanted other corn crops and other economic crops, which has also reduced cotton planting area to some extent.

3, high cost and poor yield.

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Experts from the agriculture department said that in 2014, the average cost of planting cotton per mu in Hubei province was 464.28 yuan, and the labor cost was 1012.26 yuan, a total of 1476.54 yuan.

According to the average purchase price of 2.8 yuan / Jin, and 450 kg of seed cotton per mu, the average per mu income is 1260 yuan, even if the subsidy is 100 yuan per mu, it will still be unable to pay.

In 2015, the physical and chemical costs of cotton planting rose to varying degrees, and the cost of cotton planting was high.

More than Hubei, the cotton area in other areas has also declined. The Hubei phenomenon is only a microcosm of the development of the cotton industry in the mainland. Where will the mainland cotton go in the future?