Jiangsu: Cotton Market Continues To Slump, Textile Enterprises Barely Survive

Up to the end of last year, three thousand or four thousand jin.

Has been stacked at home, Yancheng City Dafeng District xintuan town Xinzhong village six groups of farmers Dong Jiayu extremely anxious: this year's cotton seedlings have long been planted, and last year's cotton picking, do not know when to launch.

Low cotton prices, difficult to sell cotton, ginning plant has become a drying field, textile enterprises difficult to continue......

Since 2014, when the state abolished the policy of temporary cotton purchase and storage for 3 years, cotton prices returned to the market.

With the shrinking demand and falling cotton prices, cotton farmers and cotton companies tied to the white industrial chain are puzzled.

Cotton prices continue to fall

Planting area reduced by half

"At the end of last year, it continued to rain. My family only received more than 3000 Jin of cotton in 13 acres of land.

Cotton merchants came to the door, 2.9 yuan per catty, and then left 2.2 yuan, which guaranteed the cost. "In May 20th, Dong Jiayu, more than 70 years old, was worried about the cotton stacks at home."

At that price, they are too busy to earn enough money for oil.

"The lower the price of cotton, the more fastidious the dealer.

Cotton has been stacked for a long time, and the quality will definitely drop. "

Zhu Jiaan, a group of farmers in Xinzhong village, planted 13 mu of cotton last year at a price of 2.9 yuan per catty, which sold 12 thousand yuan.

"The cost per mu is 1100 yuan, the output value is less than 1000 yuan, at a loss!" he missed the 2014, when a catty cotton was more than 4 yuan, he planted 16 mu of cotton and made a net profit of $10 thousand.

The peak of cotton prices in 2010 was six or seven yuan per catty, and cotton processing enterprises.

Robbing cotton.

Zhou Riming, chief executive of Yancheng City economic crop technology guidance station, introduced the cotton temporary purchase and storage policy in 2011 to prevent cotton prices from rising and falling. After 3 years, the policy was replaced by target price management, and cotton prices returned to market regulation.

In 2014 and 2015, cotton subsidies in Jiangsu amounted to 206 yuan per mu.

3 years "temporary storage", the cotton price in the province is 3.5 yuan to 4 yuan per catty, and it is cheaper year by year.

For cotton farmers, if the labor cost is not calculated, 4 yuan will not be lost, and 3 yuan will be guaranteed, but it will be a loss if it is less than 3 yuan.

Cotton prices hit the lowest level in five years last year.

Many months later, many cotton growers no longer grow cotton.

A group of 10 new cotton farmers in Xinzhong village last year has two families, but only 10 mu.

Zhu Jiaan didn't grow any cotton this year.

The same group of six villages last year, more than 50 species of cotton, an area of about 250 acres, this year only 5 kinds of cotton, the area is only 30 acres.

In the five group of Hua Village in Xi Tuan Town, the cotton seedlings planted in the wheat field of Tan Mingfeng's family have high chopsticks.

Since the beginning of April, the couple have not been able to relax.

"Planting cotton is the most expensive labor and weeding and picking up cotton. We must be busy until the end of November."

His family's 15 acres of land, nearly twenty or thirty years of whole cotton, this year finally reduced by 3 acres.

Liu Guanquan, the three group of Xinzhong village, is also "sensible". This year he planted 8 mu of cotton, half of that of last year.

A large number of cotton farmers have withdrawn, resulting in a sharp reduction in cotton seed area.

Cotton planting in the whole province is concentrated in Yancheng, Nantong and Xuzhou. Last year, the area was about 1 million 200 thousand mu.

During the "12th Five-Year" period, the cotton planting area in Yancheng was 1 million 700 thousand mu, 1 million 200 thousand mu, 1 million mu, 700 thousand mu, 400 thousand mu, only 200 thousand mu this year, but still accounts for 40% of the total area of the province.

Working for two months

Earn a year's worth of cotton seed

Cotton prices "stumble", so that cotton farmers are entangled: cotton, whether it can be planted? Tan Mingfeng wants to understand "national policy guidance", he regrets, cotton is becoming increasingly difficult to sell, price recovery hope slim.

"Planting cotton is not cost-effective, but the state subsidized every year. Is this not encouraging us to grow cotton?"

For cotton farmers' doubts, Sunday Ming explained that the temporary storage and storage of domestic cotton, the high cost of the price and the high cost of management, plus the impact of imported cotton, the high inventory of domestic cotton needs to be resolved.

The national "13th Five-Year plan" has made adjustments to the layout of the national cotton area, and pferred the original three major cotton areas of the northwest inland cotton area, the the Yellow River River Basin cotton region and the Yangtze River valley cotton area to the two major cotton areas along the Xinjiang cotton region along the Yellow River and the tidal flat area along the Yellow River. The area is stable at 25 million mu.

Yancheng will shift high-quality cotton fields from the mainland to the coastal areas, build a cotton planting base in saline alkali soil, and use cotton to improve saline and alkaline land.

This year, Du Ganhua, an agronomist at the West Town Agricultural Technology Center, was often stopped by a cotton grower asking "what is good without planting cotton seeds"?

Dong Jiayu and Tan Mingfeng want to grow corn and grow soybeans, but the price is not good for two years.

"One mu of corn has a maximum of 1000 Jin. Last year the price was only 8 gross, and the income per mu was 400 yuan.

And planting one mu of soybeans, yield 300 Jin per mu, the price of 2.2 yuan, that is, 10 acres, two quarter net income is also difficult to exceed 1000 yuan.

Liu Guanquan, the three group of farmers in Xinzhong village, wanted to grow vegetables, but at the moment he couldn't make up his mind.

Last year, the farmers in the village made a lot of wax gourd, but they didn't know what the market was like this year.

"Cotton prices will abandon cotton farmers and cotton farmers will give up cotton."

Du Ganhua said.

The pfer of large quantities of labor force in rural areas is basically old and weak.

Many farmers grow cotton all their lives and regard it as a handicraft. They earn Kung Fu money. Now they are not accustomed to breaking up now.

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Instead of growing cotton, Zhu Jiaan's wife went to work nearby, earning two thousand or three thousand yuan a month.

Liu Guanquan went out with the boss in the village to do greening. He earned 150 yuan a day and earned two a month's income from planting cotton.

And more cotton farmers such as Dong Jiayu, because they could not work at an advanced age.

How confused is cotton grower?

Zhou Riming believes that cotton farmers to plant other crops, all over the need to do a complete set of services, timely provide market guidance and technical training, guide the rational planting of cotton farmers, to prevent all kinds of all kinds of "coax".

Cotton enterprises "guarantee life"

Ginning factory

Cotton growers "can't afford to lose". Cotton processing enterprises also suffer from labor pains.

Dong Jiayu remembers that there were 6 flower ginning plants in the town, and then there was no business.

Dong Tao, the boss of Xi Tuan Town, invested about 2000000 yuan to run two cotton ginning plants and bought 3 million jin of cotton every year.

He said, "a good year can earn 300 thousand yuan, but in recent years it has gone downhill.

The year before last, 2 million pounds of cotton lost 400 thousand yuan.

Last year, I only received 1 million jin, losing about 200000 yuan.

The more we lose, the less we will start this year.

The cotton market continues to slump, and the pressure of textile enterprises is not small.

Dafeng used to be a big cotton city and a big textile city. The Tenglong textile company located in Xi Tuan Town was once the pioneer of Yancheng City township enterprises.

In the Tenglong workshop, Chen Lanzheng, 48 years old, had her hands and feet in a neat connection. She repeats it for 28 years.

"High temperature, high humidity, bitter, dirty, tired, low wages, young people do not want to do."

Bao Jinfeng, general manager of the company, admitted that the workers were over 45 years old with no age.

Tenglong in the past, processing cotton yarn, and then sold to cloth factory.

The company used cotton 4000 tons a year, mainly cotton.

In recent years, Tenglong specializes in processing materials, earning 7500 yuan per ton.

"In 2005, Dafeng also has 32 spinning mills, and now half of them are not yet there. It is difficult to survive.

200 workers must be fed to ensure that cash flow is continuous. If the machine is depreciated, it will lose at least 2 million yuan a year. "

Bao Jinfeng was helpless.

Jiangsu new salt spinning Group Co., Ltd. has 6 cotton mills and weaving factories, and the cotton yarn and cloth produced are exempt from inspection.

In recent years, the enterprise has been shrinking rapidly, and the capacity has been reduced from 140 thousand to 30 thousand in the first workshop, and from 14 thousand to 400 workers.

The company only processes incoming materials, processing 5000 tons of cotton per year, and losing hundreds of thousands of dollars a month.

As a business partner of Tenglong, Dafeng Haida Textile Co., Ltd. sent 500 tons of cotton to Tenglong every month and sold it to Guangdong by color spinning.

Haida company legal person Ge Yonghong said that Haida is only the special yarn made by Dafeng, and merchants are relatively stable.

Are local farmers cotton and textile enterprises willing to buy? Sheyang Shan Shuang Shan buys 2000 tons of cotton locally every year.

But there are not many such enterprises in Yancheng.

Why is this? Ge Yonghong said frankly, "Haida requires very high cotton, except for dozens of tons of extra imports, mainly relying on the storage of mainland cotton.

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Local cotton prices are low, but the quality is not up to standard, we basically do not need to.

Dong Tao introduced that the cotton planted by local farmers is not separated and sorted, with many impurities and poor overall quality. The price per ton is 1500 yuan higher than that of imported cotton.

"The pgenic insect resistant hybrid cotton planted in Yancheng belongs to the high quality cotton, but the retail stock is sold in bulk, and the overall quality is difficult to achieve."

On Sunday, it is clear that Yancheng is trying to produce high-quality cotton on the coastal beach, and new technologies such as cotton planting in saline alkali soil have achieved breakthroughs, with an average increase of more than 400 yuan per mu.