Seven Factors Of Henan Cotton Spinning Make Cotton Area Shrink.

When new cotton is on the market, cotton planting and expected output become the focus of cotton business and textile enterprises.

On August 5th ~7, the reporter interviewed the cotton planting situation of Henan province this year. The interview result can be summed up in one sentence: "the demand increases, the output is insufficient, the contradiction between supply and demand tends to be sharp."

Cotton supply and demand gap continues to expand

In recent years, the Henan provincial government has taken the textile industry as a strategic support to realize the rise of the Central Plains.

According to the joint research conducted by the national development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of finance, the supply and marketing cooperatives, the Agricultural Development Bank, the fiber inspection bureau and the China Textile Industry Association in August 2010, the cotton production and marketing situation in Henan showed that in 2010, the cotton planting area in Henan Province was 7 million 10 thousand mu, 1 million 50 thousand mu less than the previous year, and the total output was about 450 thousand tons, a decrease of 67 thousand and 500 tons over the previous year.

However, according to the relevant departments, the actual planting area is far below the above figures.

In 2010, the cotton subsidy was 5 million 453 thousand and 300 mu in Henan province. According to this calculation, the cotton planting area was about 5 million mu, and the total output was about 320 thousand tons.

There is no uniform figure for the cotton planting area in Henan province this year. Some departments say a slight increase over the previous year, and some think it is flat with last year.

If Henan's cotton planting area is 5 million ~701 mu in 2010, and the total output is 320 thousand ~45 million tons, it can only meet the 11%~16% demand of the province's cotton textile.

Henan textile industry 2 million 350 thousand ~248 million tons of cotton shortfall, can only rely on Xinjiang cotton, imported cotton and other channels to solve.

Most of the cotton planting in Henan is concentrated in the eastern and southern parts of the province. The 4 main producing areas are Nanyang, Zhoukou, Shangqiu and Kaifeng in turn.

According to the survey conducted by the Nanyang price and cost investigation team in 3 counties (cities) of Dengzhou, Xinye and Nanzhao, 49 special survey households were surveyed. The trend of farmers' planting intentions in 2011 showed a trend of "one increase, one reduction", that is, the planting area of grain increased by a different margin, and the planting area of economic crops decreased.

The average cotton area in the survey is estimated to be 0.94 mu, 6% less than the actual sown area of last year.

However, the situation in different counties (cities) is different. For example, the average cotton planting area in Dengzhou is 0.83 mu, which is 38.33% higher than the actual planting area in the previous year. The farmers in Xinye county are expected to grow 2 mu, down 16.3% from 2.39 mu in the previous year.

Wu Xizhao, director of the office of Xinye cotton and flax company, told reporters that the county has planted about 200 thousand mu of cotton this year.

There is little rain this year. The recent high temperature is very beneficial to cotton growth.

At present, cotton is growing well. If there is no continuous rain in the next 1 months, it will be a bumper harvest year. Seed cotton yield per mu is expected to exceed 250 kg.

Han Guangxin, a 61 year old farmer in Daying village, Xichuan, said that 6 people in the family cultivated 30 mu of land, and planted 12 mu of cotton last year, yielding 350 kg of seed cotton and a total yield of 60 thousand yuan.

This year I wanted to have more kinds, but there were patients in my family and I needed to be looked after, so I only planted 7 mu of cotton.

The growth is good and the harvest is in sight.

"Local farmers have been

Sun Yongzhi, a 36 year old young farmer from Sun Zhuang village, Tonggang County, Tongxu County, said: "I grew up with my father from my early childhood. I grew up with 6 people, 8 acres of land, including 4 acres of cotton, and cotton and watermelon intercropping.

Last year, an average yield of 200 kg of seed cotton per mu was too bad.

Haruki is a lot like me. Cotton last year was stacked in the house.

I heard that the price is down now. I wonder how much cotton is worth. My cotton is growing well this year.

This year, it's time to shoot! "

Five Li Yang village, Li Kou Town, Suiyang District, Shangqiu, is known as the "cotton king" Liu Kai three, and the whole family has 6 people.

In the past 15 years, his family has grown 7 mu of cotton every year.

Later, he explored the interplanting of watermelons in cotton fields.

In recent years, cotton income has reached more than 10 thousand yuan a year, and the income of watermelon is more than 20 thousand yuan.

Last year, he earned 38500 yuan of cotton and melon.

"I five Li Yang Village 670 households, more than 2600 people, last year's per capita income of more than 5000 yuan, per mu of cotton net income for the first time to reach 2000 yuan."

Yang Zhiping, the party secretary of the Five Mile Village and the chief of the village Cotton Professional Association, said.

Yang Zhiping talked about the preferential policies that Shangqiu Galaxy cotton gave them: free supply of high-quality cotton varieties; subsidy of 200 yuan per ton of compound fertilizer; free of technical services; signing of a purchase contract; when the market price was higher than the contract protection price, it was purchased at market price; the subsidy of 1000 yuan per dozen of 1 wells.

According to the reporter, the galaxy cotton industry founded the cotton professional association, and established a new operation mode of "company + peasant household".

At present, the professional cotton cooperatives such as five Li Yang have developed to 21, and the order cotton reaches 296 thousand mu, involving 120 thousand cotton farmers.

Through the purchase of orders and protective prices for professional cotton, the average income of cotton growers increased by 292 yuan, and the area increased by 86 million 430 thousand yuan, making cotton a pillar industry in the region and driving the development of related industries.

Like the galaxy cotton industry founded Cotton Professional Association, cotton farmers signed the purchase contract should be vigorously promoted.

Seven factors make cotton planting area shrink.

Although cotton plays an important role in Henan's economic development, Henan's cotton planting area has been shrinking in recent years.

In 1978, it was 9 million 180 thousand mu, reaching 18 million 720 thousand mu in 1992, and 7 million 10 thousand mu in 2010, the lowest point in 30 years.

"A combination of various factors has led to a decline in cotton planting area in Henan."

Relevant departments responsible person analysis, one is affected by the policy.

Since 1996, the state has adopted the policy of restricting cotton development, resulting in the rapid reduction of cotton planting area in major cotton producing provinces except Xinjiang.

In 1998, the reform of the cotton distribution system, coupled with the economic crisis in Southeast Asia in 1999, caused difficulties in domestic textile exports, resulting in a continuous decline in cotton prices and a decrease in cotton planting area.

Two, it is affected by the international environment.

After joining the WTO, foreign cotton poured in, cotton imports increased rapidly and domestic cotton sales were difficult. In 2001, lint prices fell to 8000 yuan / ton, and seed cotton was only 2.4 yuan / kg, and cotton growers' enthusiasm for cotton growing was frustrated again.

In 2003, the province continued to rain and cotton production decreased by half, cotton farmers suffered heavy losses, and the planting area continued to decline.

Three is the impact of the international financial crisis, domestic textile exports blocked, resulting in a downturn in the cotton market.

Four is the strong labor intensity of cotton seed, low income, farmers do not want to grow cotton.

The five is that the rural labor force goes out to work nearly 20 million people. Most of the cotton producers at home are old people, women and frail and sick people. They can not meet the needs of cotton cultivation and management.

Six, the operation of the cotton market is unstable. The cotton and Flax Company at the county level basically does not accept cotton. The acquisition of small traders increases the volatility of cotton prices, and the influx of foreign and New Zealand cotton into the mainland makes the local cotton market shrink further.

The seven is frequent disasters and high risk of cotton planting.

Li Shuqin, President of Henan Textile Industry Association, analyzed cotton supply and demand situation. According to the existing cotton yarn production and development trend in Henan, the cotton supply gap in the province will exist for a long time, and the contradiction between supply and demand will become more acute.

Of course, importing cotton is a necessary means to solve the shortage of cotton supply, but at the same time, we must deal with the relationship between imported cotton and domestic production, realize the coordinated development of agriculture and textile industry, and feed the industry back to agriculture.

He suggested that we should establish a long-term mechanism for the stable development of the cotton industry, increase investment in cotton production, implement the minimum purchase price of seed cotton, strengthen policy control, timely issue quotas for imported cotton and sell cotton reserves, and stabilize cotton prices.