Xinjiang Drastically Cuts Cotton Planting Area

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The largest agricultural production area in Kashi is about 3000000 of the rural population, accounting for 1/4 of Xinjiang's agricultural population.

In late March, when reporters interviewed in Kashi, they learned that this year, every county and city in Kashi Province focused on the structural adjustment ideas of "stabilizing grain, adjusting cotton, fruits, increasing livestock, protecting the shed and highlighting characteristics", conscientiously carrying out the spirit of Central Document No. 1, insisting on the adjustment of planting structure as an important foundation for promoting agricultural modernization, adjusting and optimizing the agricultural structure and regional distribution, and doing all the work of spring production.

In March 24th, reporters learned from the the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Department of agriculture that in 2015, Xinjiang reduced cotton planting area by 11 thousand mu in Urumqi.

The adjustment of cotton planting area is designed to implement cotton since 2014.

The spirit of reform is to improve the supply and demand pattern of domestic cotton market and maintain stable operation of cotton prices.

The responsible person of the planting Department of the agriculture department said that the release of the guiding plan has released the obvious structural adjustment signal, and the cotton planting intention of Xinjiang has decreased obviously, which has promoted the increase of other crops planting intention area to a certain extent.

In 2015, Xinjiang (local) crop planting intention area was 74 million 410 thousand mu, showing a trend of "four increase, one level and one reduction".

Among them, wheat, corn, vegetables and potato, beans and other food crops planting intention area increased, sugar beet planting intention was flat last year, only cotton planting intention area decreased.

Perennial research cotton industry insiders said that the current international and domestic cotton futures fluctuate at low price, and the target price of cotton in 2015 will be lower than the previous year's level, and the comparative benefit of cotton planting is generally lower than that of previous years.

In view of the new changes in the current cotton market, Xinjiang has been the first place in the country for 21 consecutive years, with cotton planting area, total output, yield per unit area and allocation volume ranking first in the country. Timely plan for reducing cotton planting area is planned, and 13 cotton planting areas are set up to decompose indicators.

Up to now, Xinjiang's local cotton processing enterprises have a larger stock of lint stocks compared with previous years.

Xinjiang's drastically cut cotton planting area this year means that the supply of new cotton from 2015 to 2016 will decline, which will have an impact on the domestic cotton market.

Reporters learned that since March, Shandong, Hebei, Henan, Jiangsu and other places of cotton and linen, cotton enterprises and a few cotton textile mills and cotton enterprises procurement personnel have entered Xinjiang, focusing on inquiry and goods, including Shihezi, Kuitun and other places in Northern Xinjiang because of pportation convenience, and more favored by the mainland enterprises, the lint and cottonseed market has signs of warming.