China Will Implement Temporary Cotton Storage And Storage System To Stabilize Cotton Planting.

April 4th to stabilize cotton production,

According to the plan of collecting and storing, the 13 main cotton producing provinces (districts and cities) of Xinjiang and Shandong are temporarily collecting and storing the price.

Dezhou, Shandong is one of the key cotton producing areas in the country, and its cotton spinning capacity is 1/7 in Shandong and 1/20 in the whole country.

Ma Junkai, Deputy Secretary General of the Dezhou Cotton Association, thinks that unlike previous releases of temporary storage and storage of cotton, it was released before the cotton began to grow in large areas, which helps the cotton farmers in this year grasp the price information this year and guide cotton farmers to determine the planting area according to the cost accounting.

At the same time, Ma Junkai believes that compared with previous years, cotton is still running at a high price. Early publication of this year's temporary purchase and storage price will help to cool down the current cotton price and reduce the cost of downstream textile enterprises, thereby easing the upward pressure on clothing and other commodities.

Tan Yanwen, a professor at South China Agricultural University, thinks that the plan and price of the purchase and storage should be announced ahead of time, so that cotton farmers and cotton producers could have a good production plan in advance. At the same time, the promise of open storage and purchase can make cotton merchants feel free to buy and make sure that cotton farmers are benefiting. In fact, they also play the role of the lowest purchase protection price.

Statistics show that since 2010, cotton prices have been constantly updated, taking cotton futures zhengmian 109 contract as an example, rising from 19855 yuan per ton in September 17, 2010 to 33600 yuan in November 10th, or more than 69%.

After a period of adjustment, it rose to 34870 yuan in February 17th.

In stark contrast, farmers' cotton yields are still generally low.

Li Chuanbo, assistant manager of raw cotton company of Dezhou's largest cotton spinning enterprise and manager of raw materials company, said that the benefit of cotton growing is not even higher than that of grain production. At the same time, because of insufficient subsidies, the desire of cotton growers to grow is decreasing, and some local labor force has given up cotton cultivation and earned money out of work.

Monitoring shows that in recent years, the cotton planting area in Dezhou is between 2 million mu and 3 million mu, and the output is from 150 thousand tons to 250 thousand tons.

Although cotton prices were high in 2010, the cotton planting area in the city dropped from 2 million 300 thousand acres in 2009 to 1 million 550 thousand acres due to the low purchase price of cotton, with a decline of more than 32%.

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According to cotton temporary storage and reserve plan: in order to further protect the interests of cotton farmers, the cotton temporary purchase and storage system continues to adopt a previously effective link between the price of lint and the purchase price of seed cotton. According to the provisional price of cotton wool, the price of cottonseed and other by-products, the reference price of seed cotton purchase is announced, and it is required that the storage enterprise must purchase the seed cotton at the price not lower than the seed cotton purchase price, otherwise it will not be allowed to enter the storage.

The main reason for the low enthusiasm of farmers is cotton prices and the low profit of cotton seed production. If this situation is not improved, it will continue to cause harm to cotton farmers' enthusiasm and intensify the contradiction between supply and demand of cotton.

According to the price stipulated in this temporary purchase and storage system, it will help to restore the enthusiasm of cotton farmers.

Ma Junkai said.

But Ma Junkai believes that generally speaking, the beginning of large-scale planting of cotton began in mid April of each year. The temporary storage and storage price announced now will help increase the planting area of cotton this year. But because most farmers have reserved cotton plantations ahead of time, the remaining areas are planted with other grains, and the increase in production will not be obvious.

At the same time, analysts pointed out that the relative price of 19800 yuan relative to cotton prices in the short term will stimulate cotton farmers' enthusiasm for cotton planting, remains to be seen.

Pan Bingfeng, a cotton merchant in Wenzhou, who invested in factories in Xinjiang, reckons that 19800 of the purchase and storage price is 8000 yuan lower than the current market price. The price of seed cotton is about 4.5 yuan per catty, while the seed cotton price of this year is basically maintained at 5.5 yuan -6.5 yuan per catty. Moreover, the planting land in some areas is generally reserved for years, and the impact of the new deal is less than expected.

Tan Yanwen said that although the plan has taken into account the interests of both farmers and textile enterprises, the low price of the market has limited impact on the growth of the planting area.

At the same time, the policy of collecting and storing is to stabilize the psychology of cotton farmers. Whether we can finally restore the enthusiasm of farmers to grow cotton and expand the cotton planting area remains to be seen.

It is understood that there is a dispute over grain and cotton in Xinjiang.

Before the cotton price surged last year, the winter wheat in Xinjiang cotton area has been sown, and the area of spring wheat in Xinjiang is no more than 4 million mu a year. Even if all the cotton varieties are replanted, the increase will be limited nationwide.

According to a survey of 2579 cotton farmers' cotton planting intentions of 13 cotton producing provinces (autonomous regions) in March, China Cotton Association showed that cotton planting area increased in most parts of the country. It is estimated that in 2011, the area of cotton planting in the whole country will be 80 million 960 thousand mu, and the growth of cotton will be increased by 5.1%.

Experts believe that the introduction of the policy of collection and storage is more important, which is to restrain the rise and fall of cotton planting area and purchase price, so as to form a reasonable balance between grain sowing and planting.