Australia Cotton Will Become An Important Source Of China'S Textile Cotton Resources.

In mid April, a delegation from China Cotton Textile Industry Association visited Australia's Mori area. More than ten representatives from cotton textile enterprises and cotton suppliers exchanged in-depth exchanges with the local Cotton Corp on the planting, picking, processing and testing of Australia cotton.

All the time, Australia It is one of the largest exporters of cotton in the world, and Australia cotton is basically used for export. The main export destinations are China, Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, India and Turkey. In recent years, with the spanformation and upgrading of China's cotton textile industry and the increasing demand for high-quality cotton, Australia cotton has been favored by Chinese textile enterprises for its quality.

According to the data of the General Administration of customs, China imported about 3 million tons of cotton in 2011~2015, accounting for about 20% of the total imports from the world, a significant increase from 2011. In 2015, Australia's cotton output was 523 thousand tons, and its net export volume was about 609 thousand tons. 1~2 months this year, China has imported from Australia. cotton 20 thousand and 200 tons, a significant increase of 668% over the same period last year, which is basically the same as the amount of cotton imported from India, Brazil and the United States. It is the only five country with the largest import volume.

Australia's cotton fields are owned by farmers. There are about 800 cotton farmers in the country, and 3 varieties are planted every year. And 1 new varieties are selected each year to try or improve on the basis of the original varieties. Compared with other crops, cotton is more competitive. Therefore, when farmers arrange their planting, they will leave the most fertile land to cotton, even if they are not suitable for growing cotton. They prefer to leave the land unused for fallow or to plant other crops.

Average cotton yield per unit in Australia and China Xinjiang The unit production per unit area is basically close, because the cotton planting species are very concentrated, and the same type of production is planted in the same area, so the consistency of Australian cotton quality is very strong. Australia cotton from the site preparation, sowing, watering, fertilization, spraying, to harvest, spanportation, processing, packaging have achieved mechanization, manpower investment is less, picking all mechanical picking, efficiency is very high, some farms per capita planting area can reach nearly 10000 mu, planting costs are low, such as 500 thousand acres of farm labor less than 40 people. At the same time, the harvester will roll up the seed cotton and make about 2.2 tons of seed cotton per roll. The spanport truck can spanport 12 cotton seeds, about 26.4 tons of seed cotton to the cotton ginning plant at a time.

In the year of 2015/2016, the quality of domestic cotton declined, and the demand for high-quality cotton had a certain gap. In order to ensure the high quality spinning requirements, Australia cotton will continue to receive high attention. Since the entry into force of the Sino Australian FTA, trade between the two countries has entered a new stage, and there will be greater cooperation in textile raw materials and textiles in the future.

According to the briefing, Australia's precipitation is not stable, which has a greater impact on cotton production. The planting area is basically flat this year. According to the current weather situation, the output is expected to increase by about 10% over the same period last year, and the increase is mainly due to the increase in unit production this year. As of mid April, Australia's cotton picking rate has exceeded 25%.

Murray is one of the main cotton producing areas in Australia. At present, the quality of the cotton in this area is better than that of last year. The cotton that has been picked and processed is mostly one or two grade, and the cotton length, horse value and color grade are all better. In the northern part of the country, due to more rain, the cotton picked in the early stage was mostly four.

The processing cost of Australian cotton is relatively high, for example, the wages of the workers in the ginning mill are about 150 yuan per hour. Besides processing, the cotton mill needs to pay extra for the cotton growers, so the total cost of cotton ginning is higher than that of our country. According to the current exchange rate conversion, the processing cost per Australian cotton is more than 1700 yuan per ton, and the lint cost after processing is about 10000 yuan per ton.