There Is A Big Dive In The Cotton Market.

There was a big dive in the cotton market in 2014, and the purchase price of seed cotton dropped from 4 yuan to 3 yuan. Until now, there has been no sign of rebound.

The decline of cotton seed income has directly led cotton growers in the traditional cotton growing areas to stop growing cotton.

Agricultural Bureau of Dean County, Jiangxi

Xu Conghui, director of the office, told reporters that because of the high cost of labor and the drop in cotton prices, cotton growers were losing their cotton crops. This year the cotton planting area is expected to decrease by at least twenty thousand mu.

As an important cotton producing area in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, Jiangxi province has developed a history of more than 20 years. Due to the solidification of farming technology and land, farmers generally do not easily replant other crops, but this year there is a collective cotton throwing phenomenon.

In April, it was spring ploughing season. The reporter went back to his hometown, Jiujiang County, Jiangxi province.

At this time, farmers were busy growing cotton.

This year, however, things are quite different.

In the field of Dafan village and other places in Dean County, the reporter saw that the number of cotton seedlings grown by farmers has been reduced. Some cotton fields have been replanted to corn or are being replanted to rice. Some of the land has been directly abandoned, and grass has been covered, and some plots have been planted with landscape trees or fast-growing forests.

The reporter saw that, in the Da An county, Fenglin Town, Da Fan Village, yellow barrel village, and other plots of the tree, some have grown to two or three meters high, has become a small forest.

The land management law clearly states "strictly controlling arable land conversion to non cultivated land".

Under the background of the state's protection of cultivated land, planting trees on farmland is still a sign of vigilance.

However, some villagers believe that less cotton will be planted this year, and more land will be abandoned.

In the busy season, the reporters saw that agricultural production is not a top priority for farmers. The most talked about villagers are where to work, including some middle-aged farmers who work in the county.

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More and more money is not made. It is better to find more than 1000 yuan in the county seat than to grow cotton.

Jin Qirong, a villager in Da Fan Village, said that the couple had planted more than 10 acres of cotton in the past year before earning seven thousand or eight thousand yuan.

The daily economic news reporter also confirmed the fact that farmers abandoned seeds from several cotton seed sales outlets.

In the seed sales street of de an County, a reporter has learned that the sales owners of seed shops generally complain about the decline of seed sales. Song Yanan, the director of seed seed marketing company, said that the sale of seeds this year was only 1/3 last year.

The head of the seed sales office also said this year

Sales were only two or three of the previous year.

Data from the Agriculture Bureau of de An county showed that cotton planting area was 66 thousand mu last year. The Cotton Office estimated that the planting area of cotton will be only 46 thousand mu this year, and the planting area will be reduced by 20 thousand mu and 30%.