Current Problems In Cotton Industry In Xinjiang

In recent years, as domestic labor and raw materials and other costs continue to rise, the domestic cotton circulation industry has entered a meager profit era. The cotton industry in Xinjiang has caused a series of problems due to one-sided emphasis on production upgrading and rapid expansion of processing capacity.

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The "small, scattered and weak" situation in the local cotton industry has led to the intensive management mode characterized by scale and mechanization. It is difficult to apply to practice and play a role. The continuous and healthy development of Xinjiang's cotton industry is faced with many bottlenecks.

1, serious excess capacity of processing.

According to statistics, in 2015, 400 types of processing enterprises qualified by relevant departments in Xinjiang had 815 manufacturing enterprises and 1069 production lines (610 of them, 687 production lines, 205 corps, 382 production lines), which did not include "one certificate and multiple lines". The existing processing capacity in Xinjiang was nearly two times that of cotton production.

In particular, the situation is even more serious. Taking 2015 as an example, local cotton production is 2 million 200 thousand tons, and local cotton processing capacity is 4 million tons.

The phenomenon of "having too many money" will inevitably lead to competition for resources.

"Directly leading to the rising cost of cotton purchase," enterprises can not produce economies of scale if they do not have enough to eat.

In order to compete for resources, many enterprises such as mixed processing and purchasing will inevitably affect the quality of cotton.

2, cotton quality is uneven.

At present, the middle and low grade of domestic cotton market

Storage and backlog are serious and prices continue to fall, but the quality of high quality cotton is strong.

This year, the cotton quality problem of Xinjiang is concentrated. The external factors are climatic reasons. The internal factor is the variety, chaos and miscellaneous of the varieties. The cotton breeding orientation is the result of one-sided pursuit of high lint.

3, comprehensive factors lead to high costs.

In 2015, the average cost of cotton per mu in Xinjiang was 2119.55 yuan, an increase of 8.33 yuan compared with the previous year, an increase of 0.39%.

The indirect cost is 60.11 yuan / mu, the fixed cost is 36.70 yuan / mu, the labor cost is 789.65 yuan / mu, and the materialized cost is 589.06 yuan / mu.

The reasons for this situation lie in: 1) in recent years, the cost of cotton plantation in Xinjiang has been increasing, resulting in the rising cost of cotton planting.

2) the overcapacity of cotton processing has led enterprises to "raise prices" for competing for resources, making cotton purchasing costs high.

3) cotton processing enterprises to control the quality, manually pick up or install the "three silk" machine increases, and correspondingly increased the quality cost of cotton circulation enterprises.

4, cotton circulation enterprises have low ability to resist risks.

Since the second half of 2015, domestic cotton sales have been continuously decreasing in volume and price. In recent years, although the cotton market has improved, it is still hanging upside down with the cost of 500-800 yuan, coupled with the slow progress of early cotton sales, resulting in an increase in warehousing and financial costs.

In particular, local state-owned cotton circulation enterprises, due to their heavy personnel and debt burden, have led to declining corporate profits and perennial losses.