Reducing Cotton Planting Area In Hubei Province

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At the time of cotton planting, because of the low price of cotton, many farmers are worried that this year they will not grow cotton. Yesterday, the provincial a href= "http://www.91se91.com" > agriculture department < /a > issued this year's planting guidance, decided to adjust the planting structure in cotton producing areas, reduce cotton area, develop grain production, optimize the layout of cotton fields, develop modern cotton planting technology and improve production efficiency and efficiency while reducing cotton seed area.

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< p > according to statistics, China's cotton inventory reaches 11 million tons, accounting for 60% of global inventories.

2014/2015 will also import about 2 million tons in China in the year of 2014/2015, and the annual cotton consumption in China is about 9 million tons. The contradiction between production and marketing has been very prominent. In 2014, China will start to digest cotton inventory for a year, and the market expects cotton prices to continue downward.

After nearly ten years of rapid development, cotton industry is facing great challenges. Insiders say, "cotton growers can not afford to grow, enterprises can not afford to use them, and the state can not afford them" has become the industry's present situation.

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< p > as a traditional cotton producing province, Hubei is about to launch a major adjustment of cotton planting structure in the whole province, and appropriately compress the cotton planting area, so as to cope with the current cotton planting risk caused by the imbalance between domestic cotton supply and demand.

14, the reporter learned from the Hubei Provincial Department of agriculture that the office has issued the guiding opinions on the adjustment of cropping structure in Hubei cotton production area (hereinafter referred to as the "guiding opinions"), which requires the localities to conscientiously carry out the implementation in combination with local realities.

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< p > according to "guiding opinions", the adjustment of planting structure in Hubei's cotton producing area this year will reduce cotton area and develop grain production on the principle of stability, optimization and synergy.

The object of the reduction is the low yield and dispersed cotton area with a yield less than 80 kilograms per unit area.

For the main cotton producing areas with a yield of 90 kg or more, the yield of more than 2000 yuan per mu and the high yield, stable yield and high efficiency cotton area belong to the stable target.

By stabilizing the dominant cotton producing areas, optimizing the layout of cotton fields and developing modern cotton planting technology, the efficiency and efficiency of cotton production can be improved.

The reduced cotton production areas will be replanted into high-efficiency crops such as grain crops or vegetables, fruits and fruit trees.

This is exactly the thinking of adjusting the cotton planting structure of "reducing, stabilizing, replanting and upgrading" the Agricultural Department of Hubei province.

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< p > Hubei's active adjustment of cotton planting structure is mainly related to the current imbalance between domestic and international cotton supply and demand.

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< p > from a global perspective, the prediction of 2013/14 by USDA and other agencies is still oversupply, and global stocks have reached a high level for decades. This is mainly due to the large number of storage and storage that China has been storing up over the past several years, forming a huge grain and cotton stock which accounts for more than half of the world. How to release this huge inventory will become the key to the global cotton price trend.

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According to the data, the national cotton inventory reached 11 million tons, accounting for 60% of the global inventory, and formed a "barrier lake" in China at the end of 2013/2014. < p >

2014/2015 also needs to import about 2 million tons per year. It is estimated that cotton consumption will be about 9 million tons per year. Therefore, the contradiction between domestic cotton production and marketing is very prominent, and huge inventory will suppress cotton price upward space for a long time.

2014 will be a year for China to open up cotton stocks, and the market expects cotton prices to go down.

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< p > in addition, from the perspective of Hubei Province, in recent years, due to the increasing shortage of labor in rural areas, the increase in physical and chemical costs and labor costs, and the decline of market competitiveness of cotton products and the pressure of RMB appreciation, Hubei cotton industry has encountered unprecedented challenges after nearly ten years of rapid development.

The cotton industry is faced with the following problems: "to invest more workers, to work hard, to cotton people can not afford to grow, and to put in low efficiency and low cotton can not afford to sell. Domestic cotton prices are high and quality is poor, and enterprises can't afford to use it." the situation of "four can't afford to buy and store cotton in a bid to reverse the cost of capital and sell the state can't afford it".

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< p > adjustment of cotton growing areas in Hubei province is also suitable for the adjustment and change of the national cotton industry policy.

In order to ensure food security and increase farmers' income, in 2014, the Central Document No. 1 issued a series of supporting policies for improving grain production. It clearly issued information on cotton production adjustment, and cotton no longer implemented temporary collection and storage policy. Only in Xinjiang cotton area, the pilot program of target price subsidies was launched.

As the largest cotton area in the Yangtze River Basin, Hubei is actively responding to the state's macroeconomic regulation and control policy. It is imperative to speed up the pace of planting structure adjustment in cotton producing areas.

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< p > the guiding opinions on the adjustment of cropping structure in cotton producing areas at this time in Hubei province are based on the realistic consideration of the current international and domestic supply and demand background and the actual situation of cotton production in the province, so as to adapt to the new situation of cotton industry development, speed up the adjustment of cotton planting structure, increase the income of farmers, and promote the pformation and upgrading of cotton industry.

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< p > "guidance" also requires all localities to strengthen organizational leadership, policy support and service guidance, so as to ensure the effective adjustment of cotton planting structure.

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< p > unlike grain farmers, most cotton subsidies in China are in Xinjiang, < a href= "http://www.91se91.com/news/index_p.asp" > Hubei < /a > cotton farmers do not enjoy state subsidies.

This year, our province will adjust the cotton structure from four aspects: "reducing, stabilizing, replanting and upgrading".

We should reduce the low yield and scattered cotton area with a level of less than 80 kilograms per unit of output, stabilize the yield of more than 90 kilograms in the main producing cotton area and mu, yield more than 2000 yuan in high yield, stable yield and high efficiency cotton area; encourage the breeding of rape, wheat or vegetables, fruits and other high-efficiency crops in poor farmland, and develop the interplanting to improve the benefit of cotton planting through the demonstration and popularization of high-yield technology.

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< p > in order to improve the efficiency of cotton growing, experts have warned that the cotton planting mode with cotton and oil after cotton should be perfected in the main production area of < a href= "http://www.91se91.com/news/index_c.asp" > cotton > /a > main cotton producing area. Early Maturing Cotton production technology suitable for mechanical direct seeding, mechanical management and mechanized harvesting can be developed. After the cotton field is reduced, the rapeseed, medium and double cropping rice models can be promoted according to local conditions, and spring maize, autumn corn, spring maize late rice, spring maize, vegetable and soybean autumn maize can be planted efficiently.

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