How About Cotton Production And Sale In China?

Global cotton inventory consumption has maintained a high level in recent years, but as the planting area of American cotton and Chinese cotton has begun to decline and supply is decreasing, the global cotton inventory consumption ratio is expected to fall.

According to a statistical survey of 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) in the whole country, the cotton planting area in 2015 was 3 million 799 thousand hectares (56 million 984 thousand mu), which was 423 thousand and 400 hectares (6 million 351 thousand mu) lower than that in 2014, and decreased by 10%.

The cotton output per unit area in China is 1475.3 kg / ha (98.4 kg / mu), an increase of 12.1 kg / ha (0.8 kg / mu) in 2014 and an increase of 0.8%.

The total output of cotton in China is 5 million 605 thousand tons, 574 thousand tons less than in 2014, and a 9.3% reduction in output.

According to the estimated output of domestic cotton 5 million 216 thousand tons (national cotton market monitoring system forecast in November 2015), as of December 18th, the national total sales.

The 4 million 648 thousand tons of lint cotton were reduced by 821 thousand tons compared with that of the previous year, which is 1 million 716 thousand tons lower than that in the past four years. The total processing cotton lint is 4 million 7 thousand tons, down 377 thousand tons compared with the same period last year, which is 1 million 477 thousand tons less than the normal years in the past four years, of which 3 million 303 thousand tons of lint are processed in Xinjiang, and the total sales are

1 million 625 thousand tons, an increase of 168 thousand tons over the same period, 2 million 36 thousand tons less than the normal years of the past four years, of which Xinjiang sells 1 million 166 thousand tons of lint.

According to the national cotton market monitoring system, the survey data of 1837 households in 87 counties and 14 provinces in December 18, 2015 showed that the national cotton picking progress was 99.6%, an increase of 0.9 percentage points compared with the same period last year, an increase of 0.8 percentage points over the normal years of the past four years, of which the mainland's picking rate was 98.8%, and the national sales rate was 89.5%, an increase of 5.8 percentage points over the same period last year, which was increased by about a percentage point over the normal years in the past years, of which the mainland sale rate was in the trap, and the Xinjiang picking sale was over.

According to the survey of 89 large and medium-sized cotton processing enterprises, as of December 18th, the surveyed enterprises accumulated 4 million 335 thousand tons of seed cotton, 1 million 682 thousand tons of lint cotton, 38.8% average seed cotton percentage, and an average length of 28.11 millimeters.

It is assumed that the national processing rate is 86.2%, an increase of 6 percentage points over the same period last year, an increase of 0.1 percentage points over the normal years of the past four years, of which the processing rate in Xinjiang is 90.3%, and the sales rate is 35%, an increase of 8.3 percentage points over the same period last year, which is 21.5 percentage points slower than that in the normal years of the past four years, of which the sales rate in Xinjiang is 31.9%.