Jiangsu: Cotton Farmers' Concerns About Prices Drop

In traditional cotton areas in Jiangsu, cotton prices seem to be the focus and hot spot of cotton companies and textile enterprises. Scattered farmers are not paying much attention or concern.

Local cotton is no longer a key crop. After the benefit ranking, the producers' confidence is missing. It is precisely because the comparative advantage of cotton production is weak, the planting area is in the back row, the producers' confidence is low, and the degree of production organization is decreasing.

In the process of rural research, we heard that the old cotton growers lamented the production of cotton. They didn't pay much attention to the cotton price in the cotton market at present. They insisted that planting rice and raising pigs and raising chickens were better than planting cotton. Chen Lao Han, 68 years old in Yancheng, Jiangsu, grew cotton from his youth. By planting cotton, he set aside roots and built up happy families. Now the prices of agricultural products, production and consumption forced him to give up the unprofitable cotton production.

In Yancheng, the revenue accounts for the popularization of cotton production are: the average cotton yield per mu of cotton is 450 Jin per year, and the purchase price is 3 yuan per catty, and the mu income is 1350 yuan. The input cost of Mu cotton has been between 700-750 yuan in recent years and 650 yuan in gross income. This is the accounts of farmers who own their own contracted land. If the land is planted locally, and the land will be transferred at a local rate of around 1000 yuan, then it will be more disastrous to get the seed cotton. Even though Jiangsu has given farmers more than 200 yuan a mu of cotton price compensation in the past few years, the losses can not be made up, and cotton seeds do not make money.

Therefore, local farmers are not concerned about cotton prices in cotton cities. Besides, they also have the bottom line. Chen Lao Han said that his family planted more than 2 mu of cotton this year, and the growth is not bad. Cotton prices are high and low among our farmers. If the catty is no less than 3.20 yuan, he will sell it to cotton purchasing station or broker, and then lower it to cotton seed and send friends and relatives. Besides, I don't plan to grow cotton in the future. I also need to keep some cotton for my own use. Older people prefer to use natural warm fitting quilts.