Cotton Costs Increase Efficiency Benefits Cotton Farmers Reluctant To Sell

< p > October, Jiangsu Pizhou entered the cotton purchasing season.

According to the market price survey of "a href=" "//www.sjfzxm.com/news/index_c.asp" > cotton > /a > market price monitoring and cotton planting cost survey, the income of cotton farmers increased under the current 4.2 yuan / Jin cotton purchase price. But because of the low efficiency of cotton planting, the cotton flour product continued to decrease, and the cotton farmers were reluctant to sell their minds.

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Since the beginning of the new cotton scale in September this year, although cotton brokers set the purchase price of good quality cotton at about 4.20 yuan / kg, cotton farmers still feel low and expect to reach about 4.5 yuan (that is, the state's temporary purchase and storage price).

Gao Yunqin, a cotton grower in the station village of Bayi Town, has planted 2.5 mu of cotton, picking up more than 1100 Jin of seed cotton and selling only 220 catties, and has sold more than 900 kg of seed cotton in the same period last year.

The main reason is that more than half of the three grade seed cotton is in cotton, and he expects the price to go up.

In addition, the area of cotton planting in this village has been reduced from more than 500 mu last year to more than 300 mu this year. Cotton farmers are reluctant to sell seriously.

According to Zhou Daoping, director of the a href= "//www.sjfzxm.com" > cotton processing plant < /a > in Bayi market town, from the end of September to the present, only more than 40 thousand catties of cotton were bought, which is 1/5 of the same period last year.

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< p > the growth of cotton seed income is limited.

"I planted 2.5 mu of cotton this year, and the annual production capacity reached more than 460 Jin, which is estimated to be around 500 Jin this year."

Li Peijin, a cotton grower in Shek Heng village in Bayi Town, told me that the planting of cotton seeds per mu has invested about 350 yuan in seed, agricultural film, fertilizer, pesticide and so on. From the sowing to harvesting, the family labor is expected to be 31 yuan per mu during the whole growth period, with a total cost of about $995 per worker and 32.1 yuan, plus the cost of land and related tools and materials. The total cost is about 1550 yuan. According to the sale of 4.20 yuan per catty cotton, the gross income is 2100 yuan, the total cost is deducted, plus the subsidy of Agricultural Comprehensive subsidy and improved seed subsidy 66.7 yuan, the net income is 600 yuan, which is more than 150 yuan than that of last year.

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< p > planting area continued to decrease.

Cotton is time-consuming and labor intensive, while the rural labor force is mainly middle-aged and elderly people, so it is difficult to adapt to the tired cotton planting operations.

"Even if cotton is planted for a good year, the profit per mu is less than 1000 yuan."

A href= "//www.sjfzxm.com/news/index_s.asp" > cotton growers < /a > Zhang Jiatian said that once cotton prices fell, cotton farmers' incomes would be greatly affected, while cotton farmers' income increased at a price increase.

Most cotton farmers have abandoned cotton and converted to other cash crops.

The city's agricultural sector data show that this year cotton planting area in the city is about 60 thousand acres, 17 thousand mu less than last year's 77 thousand acres, a drop of 22.07%; the city's 2001 statistical yearbook showed that cotton cultivation was 237 thousand mu, then decreased year by year, and the planting area in 2013 was 12 years low, and there was a trend of continued reduction.

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