Cotton Situation In Xingtai, Hebei: Lower Production And Lower Cotton Prices

In September,

In succession, the picking period.

The output, quality and price of cotton will be looked at with Xiaobian.

The cotton in the eastern part of Xingtai has entered the plucking period.

However, due to the continuous drought and drought, cotton production in Xingtai's main cotton producing areas has been greatly reduced, and cotton quality is low.

Now the cotton picking period has entered. The reporter walked into the village of Da Gao, one of the largest cotton growing areas in Nangong, but could not see the "cotton like sea" scene. It should be a snowy white cotton in the cotton area, but actually the reporter saw a lot of leaves.

Aunt Lee, a cotton grower, pointed to the cotton in the ground. She said that when she had a good year, she could produce more than ten cotton bolls on a cotton plant.

A similar situation exists in the small Wang village not far away.

The reporter noticed that many cotton sticks not only hung short of peaches, but also had yellow leaves.

The villagers said that due to the continuous drought and rain in the first half of this year, especially in 6 and July, the picking period of cotton was half a month ahead of the previous years, and drought eventually led to a large reduction in cotton production.

Li Zhuangwu is a local cotton farmer, with nearly 100 mu of cotton land, especially last year, he has expanded dozens of acres, but now, at present, the market purchase price is 3 yuan and 1 yuan per catty, and an acre of land has less income of 600 yuan. In this year, he will lose more than 60 thousand.

Li Zhuangwu joked that it would not be possible for the heavens to rain or not, but the wells in the fields did not give any strength. With the decline of groundwater level in recent years, the existing wells could not meet the needs of farmers to irrigate the land.

"The first small wells that hit more than 30 meters or more than 40 meters make the small well irrigated.

If there is no water in the well, we will hit the well for more than 300 meters, and now there is no more than 300 meters of water, so we will not occupy it.

Cotton, which was originally a drought resistant crop, failed to escape the drought this year. And before the cotton picking, Nangong and Weixian County continued to rain and rain.

Cotton brokers Lao Liu said that since last year, the state has cancelled the cotton purchase and storage price and changed it to the target price, that is to say, the cotton price market has the final say. According to this year's situation, not only the cotton production reduction has already been foregone conclusion, but also the cotton quality has been greatly reduced, the price will certainly be affected.

Liu Xingli, director of the Weixian County Cotton Research Institute, has been dealing with cotton for nearly 30 years, he said.

Weixian County is the main cotton producing area in Xingtai and even our province. 5 years ago, the cotton planting area in 2 counties was 600 thousand mu and 850 thousand mu, accounting for about 20% of our province's planting area.

However, since last year, the cotton growers have been greatly reduced due to the low cotton prices. Nangong's current planting area is only 350 thousand mu, and Weixian County's 500 thousand mu. This year, the cotton production area has been cut down substantially. The cotton planting area in both places may continue to decrease next year.

At present, about half of China's cotton textile products are exported, but it is affected by the international situation.

In recent years, it has continued to go down, but it has little impact on cotton growers, because the price of cotton in the first two years is still in reserve, but as soon as the state abolished the purchase and storage price last year, the impact appeared immediately.

Liu Xingli said that although there are about 160 yuan subsidy for cotton farmers per mu in the country, there are still many factors that need to be regulated by the market in the face of market economy.