Jiangsu'S Seed Cotton Area Is 6 Years Minimum &Nbsp; Why Does Cotton Producing Province Shrink Every Year?

In the past few months,

People still remember that since last year, the agricultural products that roared on the price roller coaster have already included "pig eight quit", "garlic you ruthless", "beans you play" and "Jiang You army", and this is the turn of cotton.

Let cotton farmers happy cotton prices, but let cotton business owners worry.

People are asking whether cotton will fall into the hands of international capital like soybeans.

"In 2003, cotton prices rose from 11 thousand yuan per ton to the highest level of 18 thousand yuan.

But the financial crisis from 2008 to 2009 made cotton price fall into freezing point. At the beginning of last year, 10 thousand yuan cotton enterprises did not want to.

Since September last year, cotton prices have risen steadily, and up to 17 thousand yuan per ton in May this year, it is now 18 thousand and 500 yuan, a new record high, and any household cotton enterprise can not afford it.

The Jiangsu cotton association people briefed reporters in more detail.

Obviously, cotton prices are on the roller coaster this year.

In the middle of September last year, the price of lint bought by enterprises was 13 thousand and 300 yuan per ton, and increased to 14 thousand and 900 yuan at the end of the year, a person in charge of a textile enterprise in Suzhou told reporters.

And in June 30th this year, they bought a lot of high priced cotton, and the paction price was 18 thousand and 600 yuan.

Provincial Agriculture Commission analysis of the relevant personages said that the main reason for the rise in cotton sales prices: first, cotton production decreased last year, the high-grade cotton reduction was particularly large; two, after the financial crisis, the demand for cotton was restored, and the export of textile enterprises increased.

There is another special factor this year: India and Pakistan restrict cotton and cotton yarn exports, while domestic and Xinjiang places are difficult to pport cotton.

According to the US Department of agriculture, the harvest area of cotton farmers around the world will be the lowest level in more than 20 years.

Moreover, for 15 consecutive years, the growth rate of global cotton production has not kept pace with the pace of demand growth.

Cotton farmers sell cotton, the higher the price, the better.

Last year, the price of seed cotton was 6360 yuan per ton, the highest price of cotton farmers in Jiangsu since joining WTO in 2002.

According to Dafeng cotton growers, cotton purchase price will rise 20% this year, about 8000 yuan per ton.

Provincial cotton and flax company offices also said that the price of new cotton must rise this year.

Hu Yazhong, assistant general manager of cotton and Flax Company in Hubei Province, said that large and medium-sized cotton textile enterprises will not be able to buy cotton; small businesses, because of limited reserve capacity, may be raw materials, but the new cotton market should also be improved. "Like Shanghai, Zhejiang and Jiangsu, there are provincial cotton reserves. Jiangsu has not had since the reform of cotton circulation system, and hopes to set up provincial reserves to support the development of textile enterprises and cotton industry."

Although there are stocks, there are also concerns.

Jiangsu's cotton output last year was only 250 thousand tons, less than 10% of the total cotton demand in the province.

The import quota of cotton enterprises in the province accounts for 1/3 of the country, close to 700 thousand tons.

There are still 2 million tons of gaps, which are purchased by the enterprises themselves from other provinces.

Hu Yazhong said that the cotton price has gone up and the cost is high.

People in the Yancheng store directly under the central reserve store also believe that the cotton directly under the main warehouse is mainly from Xinjiang and imported. Now the price is high indeed. Yancheng's cotton enterprises are watching. "There should be no money to buy cotton."

The sales staff of Jiangsu Yulun Textile Co., Ltd., located in Taizhou, also said that the raw material of cotton is almost all from Xinjiang cotton area.

The current inventory can probably be maintained until October.

"Cotton prices in Jiangsu will definitely rise, but it will have little impact on the company before October."

At the end of last month, a survey conducted by the provincial Cotton Association on 7 textile enterprises in the province showed that these enterprises had 9975 tons of cotton per month and 18529 tons of stock, which could be used for about 2 months, but the imbalance between factories and factories was only a week.

In order to meet our cotton demand, in August this year, the provincial cotton and linseed company signed a cooperation agreement with Xinjiang corps cotton and linseed company. From the beginning of this year's new cotton listing, we offered 30 thousand tons of quality cotton to our province, and then increased year by year according to the situation.

At present, our province has set up 3 cotton purchase points in Xinjiang.

Area shrink, conform to pformation

Although Jiangsu is a traditional cotton producing province, its planting area and output are decreasing year by year.

The Provincial Committee of Agriculture said that the cotton planting area in 2005 was 6 million mu, which fell to 4 million mu last year, and this year only 3 million 500 thousand mu.

The main cotton growing area is Dafeng. This year, the cotton planting area has been greatly reduced compared with last year. At present, there are only 400 thousand mu.

Dafeng cotton farmers told reporters that in recent years, cotton farmers have high cost of planting cotton, low cotton purchase price, unreasonable grain and cotton prices, and widespread loss of cotton. Many farmers are reluctant to grow cotton.

However, "last year, the price of seed cotton rose, the cost of cotton planting and the price of agricultural products dropped. Many cotton farmers who changed their wax gourd wanted to go back and continue to grow cotton."

According to the relevant people of Dafeng agricultural department, the cotton growth this year is gratifying. It is estimated that more than 250 kilograms of seed cotton will be produced per mu.

A survey conducted by 50 cotton farmers at the contact points also showed that the prices of barley, wheat, rapeseed and special crops increased generally this year. Cotton farmers' highest purchase price for seed cotton this year is 5 yuan per catty. "It is estimated that it will sell for 4 yuan. If it is 4 yuan, then the standard grade lint of Jiangsu will reach 18 thousand yuan per ton."

The provincial Agriculture Commission said that the cotton prices were greatly influenced by foreign markets.

In 2008, for example, textile enterprises were affected by the financial crisis to reduce raw material procurement, cotton prices fell sharply, and cotton growers' enthusiasm for planting was greatly dampened.

At the same time, the degree of mechanization of cotton planting is low, the amount of labor is very large, it is 4 times of the labor of wheat, 3 times of corn and 2.5 times of rice, and the coastal cotton area, which is most susceptible to the typhoon and other natural disasters, accounts for 80% of the cotton planting area of our province.

It is not difficult to explain that although cotton prices rose last year, cotton planting area is still reduced by nearly 300 thousand mu this year.

Experts from the provincial Commission of Agriculture said that Jiangsu is economically developed, with less cultivated land, higher labor and labor costs and reduced cotton planting area to a certain extent, which coincides with the actual situation of our province's pformation of the mode of economic development.