In Xinjiang, There Will Sometimes Be Late Spring Chill.

The Central Document No. 1 is fresh. How to solve the problems that exist in agriculture is still a top priority in China. Cotton has been mentioned many times as an important agricultural product of the country.

According to document 1, we should adjust the grain feeding structure as a whole, and optimize the quality and regional distribution of the economic crops, and consolidate the production of cotton, oil and sugar in the main producing areas.

Does this mean that a single cotton production pattern in Xinjiang has been challenged? Although domestic cotton prices have stabilized and picked up in 2016, cotton growers have increased their cotton planting income, but due to various factors, the mainland wants to stabilize cotton production and thus form a serious challenge with Xinjiang.

Statistics of the national cotton market monitoring system in November 2016 showed that the average cotton production per unit area in 2016 was 111.2 kg / mu, an increase of 9.2% over the same period last year.

According to China's cotton sowing area of 43 million 845 thousand mu, it is estimated that the total output will be 4 million 877 thousand tons, a decrease of 6.5% over the same period.

The sowing area of cotton in Xinjiang autonomous region is 29 million 45 thousand mu, a decrease of 6.3% compared with the same period last year, with an average yield of 131.3 kg / mu, an increase of 10.9% over the same period, and an increase of 3 million 814 thousand tons, an increase of 3.9% over the same period last year.

It can be seen that not only the total output of Xinjiang cotton accounts for 78.2% of the whole country, but also the cotton per mu yield is higher than the national average level of 18.1%.

Cotton in China now

It has changed from the Yangtze River Basin, the the Yellow River River Basin and the Xinjiang tripartite confrontation pattern to Xinjiang's dominance.

This year's central document 1 stressed the need to optimize the quality and regional layout of cash crops, and whether the cotton production in the mainland could stop the downward trend.

Due to market reasons, cotton prices have been wandering in the low level in recent two years. Cotton growers have not gained high yield or even suffered losses. The area and output of cotton have declined in varying degrees. Even under the condition of subsidies, Xinjiang has failed to stop the trend of decreasing cotton planting area, and this situation continues to expand.

Experts say that

Sometimes there will be late spring chill, as well as sudden cooling of cotton during the mature period, which will cause great harm to cotton and can not be put in one place. If the natural disasters happen year by year, the whole industry will be greatly affected.

Cotton production in China is tilting to the West. At the same time, from the perspective of cotton industry safety and agricultural ecology, we should consider the balanced development of three cotton regions in the Yellow River basin, Yangtze River Basin and Xinjiang, and agricultural production can not violate the natural law.

Considering the various factors such as climate, ecology and production scale, the northwest inland cotton area will bear the capacity of 50%-60%. The production capacity of 40%-50% in the Yangtze River Valley and the Yellow River Basin cotton area is scientific.

China's traditional cotton picking is still mainly manual picking. The quality of cotton picked by man is good, three silk is small, and the price of seed cotton is different. The machine picked cotton is mainly in the Xinjiang area. The survey shows that the price of the cotton picking cotton picked from hand is higher than that of the machine picked cotton 0.3-0.5 yuan / kg. According to the quality and time, the price of the cotton picking cotton is less than that of the machine picked cotton. The difference is 200-300 yuan / ton, and the difference is more than 500-800 yuan / ton.

The cotton seed processed by cotton ginning plant is larger than the cotton seed processed by machine picked cotton. The difference between cotton seed and cotton seed processed by hand picking is 0.02-0.05 yuan / Jin, so the advantage of hand picking cotton is obvious. But in recent years, the price of labor has been increasing. The traditional cotton picking has already made the domestic cotton price lose international competitiveness. As the cotton planting concentration area in Xinjiang, its price directly affects the competitiveness of domestic cotton.

In order to reduce the cost of cotton production, since the introduction of cotton picking technology in Xinjiang area, the area and scale of machine picked cotton have been expanded and the number of machine picked cotton has been increasing.

The quality is also improving.

According to the experience of the previous year, according to the analysis of the domestic cotton market in 2016/17, except for the one or two grade cotton hand picking cotton, the difference between Xinjiang three grade cotton picking and picking cotton can be reduced to about 300 yuan / ton. The machine picked cotton has certain advantages in fiber length and horse value.

Through the analysis of the State Cotton sale in 2015/2016, the domestic high-grade lint is in good demand. With the improvement of picking and processing technology in Xinjiang, the quality of machine picked cotton will continue to improve, such as quality, price and other comprehensive factors.

The total amount of hand picked cotton will also decrease year by year, and machine picked cotton will further seize the share of hand picked cotton.

However, there are still great differences in cotton picking, cotton planting, field management, picking technology, processing and so on. Cotton lint and cottonseed impurities are also different from hand picking cotton. Under many conditions, it is still difficult to pick flowers in some areas.

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