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How About Xinjiang Long Staple Cotton This Year?

2021/4/20 11:15:00 0

Imported Long Staple Cotton Xinjiang Long Staple Cotton

From the international spot price of cotton on April 13, the price of long staple cotton in the United States, Egypt, Israel and other major countries continued to rise, of which the second grade quotation of American Pima cotton has risen to 190 cents, and the RMB discount of 1% tariff has exceeded 30000 mark. As early as March 16 [today's look at cotton] the price of long staple cotton has gone up violently and the price of domestic and imported long staple cotton has been diverged. The main reason is that the domestic high count yarn products are mainly exported to the European and American markets, while the U.S. ban on Xinjiang cotton and its products and unwarranted slander against Xinjiang's human rights problems exist for a long time The industry can only turn to the use of imported cotton to meet production needs.

Even though the quality of Xinjiang long staple cotton is excellent, under this background, and long staple cotton needs to pay more energy and cost than fine wool cotton in planting and picking. Therefore, as early as the end of October last year, Xiaobian investigated long staple cotton in Awati County of Aksu region, and the planting area of long staple cotton in the county showed a downward trend, from 650000 mu in 2019 to 450000 mu in 2020, with the total output Also affected by the sharp reduction of area, there was a significant reduction in production.

Awati County, as the main production county of Xinjiang long staple cotton, whether the planting situation is still in the doldrums this year, whether the sowing date encounters abnormal weather, with these problems, Xiaobian went into Awati county again, and summarized the situation as follows.

1、 Relevant departments vigorously support long staple cotton planting area or a small rise

It is understood that the local authorities require 30% of the cotton area of Awati County cotton farmers to plant long staple cotton, and vigorously guarantee that about 520000 mu of cotton will be planted this year. Although this requirement seems to be mandatory, it is urgent to protect long staple cotton when the planting area of long staple cotton is sharply shortened. From the communication with local farmers, we learned why everyone changed their planting machine to pick fine wool cotton. Firstly, long staple cotton is still mainly picked manually. Flower pickers are hard to find in recent years. The cost of picking flowers by hand is high, and the highest cost is 3.0 yuan / kg. Second, the long staple cotton picking cycle is relatively long, which basically lasts from mid September to December. Cotton farmers say that "people machine pick cotton in two or three days, go home and lie down and rest, we are still busy every day". Especially last year, the price of long staple cotton was close to that of fine cotton, and the cost of picking cotton by machine was low, and the enthusiasm of planting long staple cotton was more fading.

Although, in the past two years, we have also been studying and experimenting with machine harvesting of long staple cotton, but after all, it has just begun. Machine mining may cause certain loss to the length of long staple cotton, and the corresponding impurities will increase, so the farmers are hesitant. After all, no ginning plant has taken the initiative to purchase machine picked long staple cotton, so they still hold a wait-and-see attitude. In Awati County, there are about 20 ginning plants that purchase and process long staple cotton. Judging from the purchase volume last year, it is relatively stable, and there is no big fluctuation, which can basically guarantee the sales of farmers.

2、 During the sowing period, the rainfall and strong wind have different progress

According to local professionals, the earliest planting of long staple cotton in Awati county will start at the end of March, and it will be sown in early may at the latest. Some are still leveling the land, and some have been replayed 2-3 times because of the rainfall or gale in early April. However, if the temperature is suitable in these days and the replanting is completed before the 20th, the overall impact will be small. If a few days later, the cotton growth period may be shortened, cotton maturity is not enough, and then affect the yield. From the perspective of sowing mode, long staple cotton is the same as fine cotton, most of which are one film with six rows, and the whole process is mechanized.

3、 Multiple factors affect the increase of yield per mu

In addition to the decline in the area of long staple cotton, the local yield per mu of long staple cotton is only about 300 kg / mu in recent years. Last year, the meteorological conditions were suitable, and the yield per unit area increased, some of which reached more than 400 kg / mu. According to seed industry professionals, soil environment, cotton seed, weather, management level will affect cotton yield per mu. Due to the long-term planting of cotton in part of the land, the organic content in the soil is decreasing year by year, and the fertilizer materials are more and more, which can not provide a good growth environment for cotton. In addition, different plots need to choose the right cotton species, and the management methods of each cotton variety are different. Combined with multiple factors, it is bound to affect the yield per mu of cotton. It is also necessary to find suitable cotton varieties and management methods for farmers fundamentally, and improve the soil environment to lay the foundation for improving yield and quality.