2015 National Cotton Picking Progress, Sales Rate, Processing Rate And Other Data Analysis

According to the state cotton According to the market monitoring system, the survey data of 1837 households in 87 counties and 14 provinces and municipalities showed that as of November 6, 2015, the picking rate of new cotton in the whole country has been picked up by cotton farmers. Unginned cotton Volume / projected cotton seed output was 84.9%, an increase of 2.8 percentage points over the same period last year, a decrease of 0.9 percentage points over the normal years of the past four years, with the mainland picking rate of 82.3%. Xinjiang The picking rate was 85.9%; the national selling rate (the selling rate = the cumulative amount of cotton seed sold by cotton growers / accumulated seed picked cotton) was 78%, an increase of 5 percentage points over the same period last year, an increase of 5.8 percentage points over the normal years of the past four years, of which the mainland sale rate was 37.6%, and the Xinjiang sale rate was 92.4%.

According to the survey of 89 large and medium-sized cotton processing enterprises, as of November 6th, the surveyed enterprises accumulated 3 million 22 thousand tons of seed cotton, 1 million 160 thousand tons of lint cotton, 38.4% average seed cotton percentage, and an average length of 27.81 millimeters. It is presumed that the national processing rate (processing rate = the cumulative amount of processed lint / cotton seed cotton purchased by cotton enterprises) is 57.9%, an increase of 8.5 percentage points over the same period last year, which is 3.2 percentage points slower than that in the normal years of the past four years. The sales rate (sales rate = the cumulative sales of cotton lint / cotton seed cotton purchase quantity) is 20.2%, an increase of 6.6 percentage points over the same period last year, which is 12.3 percentage points slower than that in the normal years of the past four years.

According to the estimated 5 million 816 thousand tons of cotton production in China (the national cotton market monitoring system forecast in August 2015), during the period of -6 November 2nd, the national sale of seed cotton was 424 thousand tons of lint cotton, 376 thousand tons of lint were processed, and 161 thousand tons of lint were sold. As of November 6th, the total sales of seed cotton and lint cotton 3 million 851 thousand tons decreased by 115 thousand tons compared with the same period last year, which is 676 thousand tons less than that in the past four years, including 3 million 363 thousand tons of cotton seed sold in Xinjiang, 2 million 229 thousand tons of lint cotton, an increase of 269 thousand tons compared with the same period last year, a decrease of 568 thousand tons over the normal years of the past four years, of which 2 million 20 thousand tons of lint were processed in Xinjiang, and a cumulative sale of 779 thousand tons of cotton lint, an increase of 19 tons compared with the same period last year, which is less than that in the normal years of the past year, of which Xinjiang sells lint tons.