Cotton Purchase Station More Than Half Of The Hungry &Nbsp; When Xinjiang Cotton Appeared "Save The World"

All cotton is a curse! All clues point to the textile industry's fundamental cotton production area.

In order to explore

There is no "no cause" in the world, but it is hidden too deep.

First station: Dian zi Town, Binzhou

Shop in Binzhou town has long heard that this is the largest cotton processing base in North Shandong. The first stop of finding gold cotton is naturally set here, but the bleak picture here surprised the reporter.

Reporters drove from Zibo for 1 hours and entered the area of Binzhou Town, but in the town of shop, it lasted for 20 minutes without a single cotton field. If it were not a sign of "cotton purchase" on the roadside, it was hard to believe that it was once a famous cotton town.

And these cotton acquisition sites also showed a bleak picture: locked gates, empty drying grounds and lazy watchdogs.

After visiting three or four acquisition stations, the answer was "no cotton," and when he was about to lose his confidence, he finally saw a lot of cotton. In the village of Zhang Wang Village, the company of the Wanda oil and cotton company Xingfa branch, Mr. Wei told reporters that he was the only takeover point in more than ten acquisition stations nearby.

At this purchase point square, about 200 tons of seed cotton were dried, but Mr. Wei was not worth mentioning.

"Last year, when I was at most, I collected 500 tons of seed cotton per day. What do you think this is?"

Mr. Wei said that this year's cotton prices are not only very strong, but also very difficult to acquire. In the 100 cotton purchase points of the whole shop, there are less than 40 of them that can maintain normal operation. "Now the purchase price is already 6.1 yuan per catty. After so many years of cotton business, I have never seen such a high price!"

The seed cotton is processed roughly in these processing plants, packaged into lint and exported. "These 200 tons of seed cotton are distributed to Binzhou. Now the cotton price is so high that our cotton dealers are afraid to put it in their hands."

Mr. Wei refutes the speculation about cotton stockpile hoarding.

As for the unusual rise in cotton prices, Mr. Wei attributed to "natural calamity". "This year's rainwater is too big, and it has no small impact on cotton yield and quality."

When they came to the government of the Dian zi Town, more than 80 cotton processing enterprises that had made 200 thousand tons of lint cotton were long gone. Instead, they were replaced by the huge slogan of "the hometown of high-quality tomatoes".

Second stations: cotton farmers in Gaoqing County of Zibo complain that income is not increasing.

"Go to Gaoqing. There's cotton there."

Because of this sentence, the reporter turned to Gaoqing County, Zibo. In the 100 cotton producing counties of the whole country, the reporter saw a lot of cotton fields, and Zhu Xingliang, a simple cotton farmer.

Zhu Xingliang is a villager in Li Feng Ming village of Gaoqing County. 10 acres of land are cotton. He picked up cotton and accepted an interview with reporters.

"Cotton price increases have nothing to do with us. We should lose money or lose money, but only pay less."

Zhu Xingliang said that this year's mood is three, three drops, in the spring time, looks at the growth of the cotton is not much joy; but then in August for more than 20 consecutive days, let his heart suddenly pull up; by September, seed cotton purchase price loiter up, he is a joy; but the next cotton picking labor costs skyrocketing, and let him helpless.

"In previous years, the output of cotton per mu was about 600 Jin. When the" peach "was built this year, the rain was too large and the yield per mu was 400 Jin.

Zhu Xingliang said, however, because cotton prices have gone up and up, he still can earn a lot of money, and this year has also doubled the cost of picking labor. In the past years, the money has been paid for each day, which is forty or fifty yuan per person per day. This year, it has become a figure of 1.2 yuan to 1.4 yuan per kilogram, and it will take about 120 yuan a day to hire a person.

Even so, Zhu Xingliang could not find helpers, and could only pick up with his wife. "One is afraid that the recent cloudy days will affect the quality of cotton, and the two is worried about the theft of cotton."

Zhu Xingliang said that in the past, cotton was not valuable, and it was not a matter for others to pick up and fill it. But now a small handful of cotton is dozens of dollars, so that people can pick up a lot of losses. Therefore, theft has also become a major event.

Now, Zhu Xingliang still has 4000 Jin of cotton in his house. "All our families keep cotton, and this year they are left in the past year."

Zhu Xingliang said, because November October is the time of selling cotton centrally, so it can not sell the price. In addition, cotton is sold in January and February next year. It is also a way to spend money for good years. This has become a local custom, year after year.

As for the price rise of cotton this year, Zhu Xingliang believes that it is not the custom of storing cotton. "We must sell it early this year, until next year, we fear that the price will go down."

Third stations: Cotton Office industry adjustment in Gaoqing County is becoming less and less.

Han Fengyun, deputy director of the Cotton Office of Gaoqing County, also believes that cotton farmers are reluctant to sell, even if they are not the main reason for the rise in cotton prices. "Cotton is indeed cut down this year, but it has not been cut down. The rate of reduction is about 20%. The increase in cotton prices is much larger than the reduction in output."

Han Fengyun told reporters that the reason why cotton prices rose fundamentally is that the rural industrial structure has changed.

Taking Gaoqing County, in the 80s of last century, the area of seed cotton was still kept in the area of thirty two thousand three thousand mu, and it dropped to 260 thousand mu in this century. In recent years, the situation of shrinkage has become more obvious. Now the planting scale has been reduced to eighty thousand or ninety thousand mu.

The reason why the northern Shandong area is located in the cotton producing area is that the local salinization is serious, the economic crops can not be planted, and the grain yield per mu is low. Planting cotton is the best choice of "cost performance".

But now the rural industrial structure has undergone significant changes, the employment opportunities of farmers have increased, and the wind of grain production has become more and more prosperous.

In this regard, Han Fengyun explained that cotton can not be separated from people, in order to prevent insects 32 days to spray the pesticides, but also pinch sticks, peach picking and other formalities, farmers can not get away from the field.

After the pformation of wheat and corn, although the economic benefits of the single MU decrease a lot, the labor force is liberated because it does not require "close nursing".

Zibo Huantai county is a living example. The cotton planting area in the early years can be ranked in the whole north of Shandong Province. With the development of kitchen utensils in the county, it will become a "Chinese kitchen city". The output of cotton in the county will drop again and again.

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Fourth stations: when does Xinjiang cotton in Zouping, Binzhou come out to save the market?

Originally, the cotton producers in the textile factories valued the local cotton resources, but as the textile mills grew bigger, the local cotton resources gradually dried up.

This seemingly paradoxical phenomenon occurs vividly in Zouping County, Binzhou, where there is the first textile group in Asia, Wei Qiao venture group.

There is a Haier road in Qingdao. There is a Weifang road in Zouping. Along the road of Weifang Road, the reporter sees a piece of wheat and corn.

"These places were all cotton before, and Wei Mian (the abbreviation of Wei Qiao venture group) moved away gradually."

Local taxi driver Liu told reporters that Wei cotton was not in Zouping county at first, and moved to Zouping was the advantage of cotton production.

After the plant was built, the local people were indeed rich, and Zouping county also had a great change. With the expansion of Wei's scale from one factory area to five or six, the cotton varieties became less and less. "A group of light Wei cotton can digest more than 100 thousand of the labor force, and who is still thinking about planting cotton."

Mr. Liu said that Zouping became a cotton free county from a large cotton producing county.

"At this time of the year, all cotton trucks in Xinjiang are mostly in Hebei and in the province this year."

Opposite the first production area of Wei Qiao group, an old man told reporters that during the cotton harvest season in the past, there will be some large trucks with Xinjiang licences.

What is "Xinjiang cotton"? Under the current situation of purchase and sale, "Xinjiang cotton" is regarded as a "bailout master" by many people.

Xinjiang is very suitable for cotton cultivation because of its special natural environment. In recent years, cotton production has accounted for about 40% of the whole country.

And this year, Xinjiang cotton has bumper bumper years. It is estimated that 14 million 200 thousand mu of cotton will be produced locally, with a total output of 1 million 500 thousand tons.

It is conceivable that once the "Xinjiang cotton" is completely put in the market, the pulling effect of cotton price can be described as a shock, and the textile industry in the "Millennium extremely cold" is a 100 degree heat flow.

However, in the many days of reporters' visit, there has been no "Xinjiang cotton" with high quality and low price, which has become the biggest question mark in the reporter's mind.

"Mainly due to insufficient pport capacity, there is no way to pport cotton in Xinjiang."

Mr. Wang, who is a home textile factory, told reporters that this is because cotton can't beat fruit.

In November October, it was the time when Xinjiang fruit was listed on the market, and a large number of pport capacity such as trains and trucks were put into fruit pportation. The relatively easy preserved cotton could only be put into the market after waiting for the peak season of fruit pportation.

However, things do not seem so simple.

"Now Xinjiang's cotton is not cheap, seed cotton purchase price has risen to more than 5 yuan, it is estimated that it will soon be 6 yuan."

Mr. Sun, a salesman of the Liu Yun textile factory in Gaoqing County, told reporters that when he went to Xinjiang to run cotton, he found that many manufacturers came to collect cotton, and really did not take much cotton back. Local cotton almost had "owners". Some had not been picked and had been booked. "People say, this is futures!"